Senior Business Analyst (Hybrid)

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.

About Cognizant’s Digital Engineering Practice

At Cognizant Digital Engineering, a small cross functional team comprised of a Product Manager, an Architect, Full-Stack Developers, UI/UX designers and Big Data analysts builds higher quality software faster siloed individuals working independently. Small, nimble engineering teams generate collective empathy and comradery, thus increasing their ability to anticipate unforeseen development scope changes and maintain high quality deliverables. Across our US Studio system or within client development sites, our Digital Engineering teams ideate and develop innovative cloud-based solutions following a Lean-Agile process with DevOps culture. Working in Cognizant Digital Engineering provides DevOps engineers consistent opportunities to push digital boundaries while growing their exposure to transformational technologies.

Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Roles & Responsibilities

• Ability to make quick informed decision and understand the clear priority and escalate as needed.
• Evaluate, analyze, and communicate systems requirements on a continuing basis, and maintain systems processes, including the delivery of monthly status reports to all appropriate parties.
• Must be creative to deliver innovative solutions to address critical business needs. Highly agile, and ability to quickly pivot the plan and execute.
• Efficiently lead the conversation, and gather requirements from Business, understand the concerns, identify the risk, and communicate it in timely fashion.
• Partner with stakeholders across business units (ex: sales, finance, security, compliance) to develop analyses and documentation in a collaborative way, communicating effectively and efficiently with production, managerial, and executive teams.
• Ensure document the application system by following multiple cross functional requirements (e.g., Security, Quality, cross-functional Business, Legal)
• Perform, evaluate, and communicate thorough quality assurance at every stage of systems development.
• Determine and develop user requirements for systems in production, to ensure maximum usability.

Required Skills And Qualifications

• Five or more years of experience in analytics and systems development
• Proven analytical abilities.
• Experience in generating process documentation and reports.
• High proficiency with SQL and database management
• At least 3 years of domain knowledge in Communication and Media processes
• Excellent communication skills, with an ability to translate data into actionable insights.

Preferred Skills And Qualifications

• Proven ability to manage projects and user testing.
• Strong working knowledge of relevant Microsoft applications, including Visio.
• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in information technology or computer science
• High proficiency in technical writing
• Extensive experience with data visualization

Work Authorization

• Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without company sponsorship.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• 401(k) plan and contributions

Job Location : Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada || Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Aug 08 2023

About Cognizant

Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) 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 is ranked 185 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 or follow us @Cognizant.