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Enterprise Architect - Senior Manager, Consulting
Technology Modernization
Washington, DC - 4 days/week onsite
ABOUT US
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.
COGNIZANT CONSULTING
Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value.
The Role
Cognizant Technology Modernization is changing the game in Data, Cloud and Generative AI based consultancy services. Tech Modernization is almost like a boutique consultancy inside of Cognizant that creates change in how technology is used and fosters an innovative engineering culture. We strategically drive modern engineering practices and ways of working, along with helping clients in all aspects of enterprise technology solution modernization including AI, Cloud, DevOps, Data and more.
We're looking for a Senior Consultant, Cognizant Consulting who can deliver within Cognizant's Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence, which are: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, & 5) People Development.
Responsibilities:
- Facilitating: Leading Scrum ceremonies, such as sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives
- Coaching: Helping teams improve their maturity and productivity
- Removing obstacles: Identifying and removing impediments that prevent the team from meeting their goals
- Supporting: Helping the team achieve their goals through self-organization and self-management
- Representing: Representing the team at regular "Scrum of Scrums"
- Improving: Supporting the improvement of the release train's overall performance
- Working with others: Working with the Product Owner and Development teams to identify technical solutions and process improvements
- Monitoring: Using reporting tools to monitor the progress of the portfolio delivery
- Organizing: Organizing team-building activities to build trust
- Encouraging: Encouraging open communication and conflict management strategies
- Instructing: Instructing teams on how to provide and receive feedback
- Guiding: Guiding teams with powerful questions
- Ensuring: Ensuring the team has working agreements or a Team Charter
Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in participating in PI Planning
- 5+ years of experience working within a DevOps environment with expertise in infrastructure-as-code and understanding of software/application development
- 5+ years expertise in cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCE, OpenStack, VMWare, etc.) and Linux/Windows operating systems
- Enhances or develops processes and procedures that contribute to effective consulting (e.g., prioritizing backlogs, managing dependencies, developing tasks, validating solution stories)
- Demonstrates consulting skills, e.g.: Support the definition of stories and tasks to deliver on project/sprint goals; support the running of Agile ceremonies
- Deep understanding of the DevOps philosophy and Agile methods
- Experience of the full software delivery lifecycle
- Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment at different client sites
- Consulting experience highly preferred
Work Authorization
- Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $81,450-129,500 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
Benefits:
Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
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