Product Owner –Lending

Banking & Financial Services Consulting

Location: Mclean – VA USA

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. 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. 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

Our Banking Financial Services Consulting group is looking for a Senior Consultant to join our journey.

We’re looking for Senior Consultants 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 Senior Consultant (which is a Manager level position) this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Our solutions are in demand and we’re passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!

Responsibilities

• Manage product life cycle (PLC) from ideation to post-launch and develop product strategy to deliver customer value within timeline and budget.

• Act as the liaison with engineers, Scrum Masters, architects, QA, UX/UI and sales to prioritize the product roadmap to achieve Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).

• Create User Stories and Business Requirement document (BRD) by translating requirements for business and technical team.

• Conduct user interviews, gathered functional, technical and non-functional requirements (NFR) to create workflows, business rules and system integration diagrams.

• Schedule meetings with internal and external stakeholders to reach agreements, craft product vision, discuss portfolio priorities and resolve gaps with cross-divisional product team.

• Collaborate with Product Managers and Systems Architects to define new and enhanced product features.

• Provide updates to leadership on epics and feature delivery schedules, track progress using velocity and burndown charts.

• Evaluate current (As-Is) and future state (To-Be) of business processes and features to perform gap analysis, design prototypes, document pain points and identify potential areas for process improvement.

• Contribute to the creation of user documentation, best practices and training materials.

• Validate use cases of features for each release and publish release notes.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or master’s degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent relevant experience 8-10 years of experience in banking or financial industry 5- 6 years of forward mortgage industry experience in Business Analyst and/or Product Owner roles Experience working in an Agile environment and lean methodology Experience in data mapping and vendor integrations is preferred Strong technical background and the ability to dive into the technical details Demonstrated experience problem solving and developing products from scratch Experience with bringing together cross functional teams and leading execution in an agile delivery model Ability to handle ambiguity and white space. Demonstrated examples of building and launching products The embodiment of Cognizant’s Core Values of: Work as one, raise the bar, dare to innovate, do the right thing, own it. Ability to be on-site or at the client location or cognizant location as needed

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.)

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

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

Cognizant is a global community with more than 300,000 associates around the world. We don’t just dream of a better way – we make it happen. We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what’s right. We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that’s right for you.

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 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com

Our commitment to diversity and inclusion:
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer that embraces diversity, champions equity and values inclusion. We are dedicated to nurturing a community where everyone feels heard, accepted and welcome. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state or local laws.

Disclaimer: 
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.