Consulting Partner (Senior Director), Technology Consulting Utrecht • Cognizant

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The Company

Cognizant (NASDAQ:CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.), Cognizant has over 340,000 employees as of January 2025. Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and is ranked among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

Role Outline:

Cognizant Technology Consulting is changing the game in Data, Cloud and Generative AI based consultancy services. Tech Consulting 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.

As the Senior Director, this means overseeing advisory consulting engagements, being a trusted advisor to clients, establishing oneself as a thought leader in your field, solving complex problems, consultatively working with a client to achieve business goals, driving contributions to offerings and innovations, and serving as a people leader, guiding multiple teams as they work to transform a client and the world. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop data strategies for clients that are tied to business objectives and outcomes
• Develop architectural strategies for data modeling, design and implementation to meet stated requirements for metadata management, operational data stores and ETL, Data-BI, AI/ML, GenAI landscapes with a strong focus on cloud environments
• Review existing data architectures to determine overall effectiveness and develop comprehensive strategies for improving or replacing underperforming areas
• Manage end-to-end responsibilities for consulting engagements in areas of control
• Ensures the business viability of complex solutions for Cognizant in key accounts
• Continuously assesses the business for profitability and initiates remedial interventions where needed
• Formalizes best-in-class practices, pursues the development of consulting thought leadership, and participates in industry forums and conferences to establish and enhance Cognizant’s brand
• Exercises financial accountability and responsibility for revenues and margin growth in practice area of control
• Ensures appropriate pricing for consultants across engagements and promotes the education of project teams on consultative value
• Establishes and nurtures relationships with client executives in assigned accounts and serves as their trusted advisor
• Builds or facilitates the route to market of innovative practice solutions
• Actively builds the consulting practice community by driving consensus about and standardization on best practices; and
• Manages and mentors a team of direct reports and the overarching recruitment, onboarding, development, and engagement of consultants.
• Demonstrate knowledge of cloud architecture and implementation features (OS, multi-tenancy, virtualization, orchestration, elastic scalability)
• Demonstrate knowledge of DevOps tool chains and processes
• Assess our client current state and design new processes and approaches in order to close tool and process gaps in order to guide our clients toward a more effective digital future with data
• Lead client presentations and conversations during both the sales and implementation cycles
• Research new technologies, data modeling methods and information management systems to determine which ones should be incorporated into client data architectures, and develop implementation timelines and milestones
• Be the principal advisor to key account initiatives and oversight on select client programs.
• Deliver outstanding client results through the oversight of client teams to implement recommendations
• Draw conclusions from the market / industry trends, client issues and support go to market initiatives for Cognizant
• Contribute to the practice through meeting sales targets

Experience Required:

• Strong experience communicating with both C-level business stakeholders including conducting tactical stakeholder interviews, gathering and evaluating business requirements, conducting gap analyses and devising plans of action that are clear and comprehensive to specialists, business stakeholders and C-level representatives alike.
• Demonstrated depth of experience in Banking & Financial Services domain
• Expert anticipating potential future ways of data discovery, extraction, ingestion, data cleansing, data warehousing and monitoring, while dealing with large and various sets of structured and unstructured data.
• Experience in business development, including identification of leads and opportunities, pre-sales and post-sales support, marketing, and client relationship management.
• Ability to travel as and when required
• A successful track record of setting and achieving engagement targets, controlling budgets, managing forecasts, and driving an organization of professional consultants in winning business and achieving financial targets
• Possessing a robust network of contacts and presence in professional organizations and industry forums
• International experience supporting or driving global initiatives is a plus
• Experience in building results-oriented, high-performing consulting teams or organizations recognized for excellence
• Personal leadership and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes; the embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of: Start with a point of view; Seek data, build knowledge; Always strive, never settle; Work as one; Create conditions for everyone to thrive; Do the right thing, the right way.

De Cognizant Community
We zijn een team dat elkaar helpt om doelen te bereiken op het hoogste niveau. Zonder ons team zouden we niet in staat zijn om de huidige energieke, samenwerkende en inclusieve werkomgeving te behouden. Een omgeving gericht om iedereen te laten slagen. 

• Cognizant is een globale community van 300.000+ collega’s
• We dromen niet alleen van een betere wereld, wij helpen het te maken
• We zorgen voor onze mensen, de klanten, het bedrijf, de community en het klimaat door te doen wat goed is
• We zetten in op een innovatieve omgeving waar je zelf kan bouwen aan een carriere pad dat bij jou past. 

Over ons
Cognizant is een van ‘s wereldstoonaangevende professionele dienstverleningsbedrijven, die de bedrijfs-, operationele en technologiemodellen van klanten transformeert voor het digitale tijdperk. Onze unieke, op de industrie gebaseerde, consultatieve benadering helpt klanten bij het visualiseren, bouwen en beheren van innovatievere en efficiëntere bedrijven. Met het hoofdkantoor in de VS is Cognizant (een lid van de NASDAQ-100 en een van Forbes’ beste werkgevers ter wereld in 2024) consequent vermeld als een van de meest bewonderde bedrijven ter wereld. Leer hoe Cognizant klanten helpt digitaal te leiden op .

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