Consultant - Business Analyst/product Owner - Los Angeles, United States - Cognizant

Cognizant

Verified Company

Los Angeles, United States

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Mark Lane

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Description

Consultant - Business Analyst/Product Owner (Insurance)

Location:
Los Angeles, CA

Insurance Consulting

ABOUT US

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.

We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions.

The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner.

And we're growing

The Role
We're looking for
Business Analyst/Product Owner, 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.

As a Consultant, you will analyze our insurance clients' business and technology challenges and build creative solutions to drive transformation.

You will be responsible for participating in the requirements analysis process, developing strong working relationships with clients and team members, and building industry and domain expertise.

Specifically, as a Business Analyst/Product Owner, you have the opportunity to deliver immediate value to clients by working with a project-based team of consultants.

Responsibilities:

Product Owner develops and drives the product vision and strategy as one of the closest people in the business to the customer, providing constant feedback to the team and helping to set and drive toward the vision.
Set ambitious and clear product vision and communicate 'the story' effectively to key stakeholders and the rest of the team.
Own the endtoend product strategy from inception and determine business value once solution enters production.
Ensure alignment of product features and stories, i.e., review, give feedback, and prioritize user stories in line with own vision.
Continuously improve backlog with the team, ensuring all items are clearly described, estimated, and prioritized (Organize the Backlog into Features and expected PI's)
Coordinates with business Analysts with necessary requirements, rules and known operational dependencies.
Ensure customerdriven design considering user pain points & usability test results, using market & industry knowledge as well as continual research, to deliver a wellpositioned product.
Approve each feature and provide valuable feedback for the team.
Drive sprint and release plans together with the Scrum Master and organizational technology teams.
Exercise strong decisionmaking mandate from executive group to own product endtoend.
Work with Tech lead to build a modular & reusable solution.

Qualifications:

5+ years of experience in an agile environment, preferably as a Product Owner within Insurance domain.
Experience managing product development deliverables such as requirements gathering, user story writing, acceptance testing, and product launches.
Should own the endtoend strategy and roadmap for your assigned Agile team, and ensure alignment between roadmap and productlevel Objectives and Key Results.
Should have consulting skills, including effective communication, expectation management, and results delivery.
Deep knowledge of business concepts tools and processes that are needed for making sound decisions in the context of the company's business.
Outstanding communication and interpersonal skills to work effectively with team members, leadership, and business partners.
Execution focused with the ability to distill business needs into a clear execution plan.
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.
Bachelor's degree in business, Computer Science, Information Systems, or similar field.
Background in Management Education
Master's degree preferred.