2 days ago
Base Salary
$175k - $220k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with Relationship Managers and Client Partners to translate banking client priorities into differentiated technology solutions.
- Lead architecture and solution design for RFPs, RFIs, and RFQs, including estimates, assumptions, risks, and delivery approaches.
- Develop proactive proposals, point-of-view papers, reusable assets, accelerators, reference architectures, and solution playbooks.
- Define target-state architectures, roadmaps, and transformation strategies for banking clients.
- Present solutions to client CIOs, CTOs, and business and technology leaders.
- Run client architecture workshops and discovery sessions.
- Collaborate with delivery, practice, and domain teams to produce feasible, cost-effective, delivery-ready solutions.
- Monitor banking technology trends, competitors, fintech disruption, and regulatory changes.
Requirements
- 20+ years of IT experience, including 5+ years in enterprise or solution architecture.
- At least 10 years in a client-facing consulting role or account/engagement management role within the BFS IT professional services, offshore, or outsourcing industry.
- Strong banking domain experience in retail, commercial, or wealth banking, ideally with a bank, banking technology vendor, or systems integrator.
- Hands-on knowledge of at least one area such as core banking platforms, payments, lending, or digital channels.
- Experience with cloud architecture, APIs, microservices, integration patterns, and data platforms.
- Working knowledge of banking regulations and security requirements including PCI-DSS, SOX, FFIEC, and AML/KYC.
- Proven experience responding to complex RFPs, creating winning solution narratives, contributing to new business development, and working with sales and account teams.
- Strong communication, executive presentation, persuasion, stakeholder influence, problem-solving, and task-management skills.
- Bachelor’s degree required; MS or MBA preferred.
- Preferred experience includes project environments and application development in the BFS vertical, managing complex assignments, and addressing enterprise-wide business problems.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary bonus program based on performance, in addition to base salary.
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
- Paid holidays and paid time off.
- 401(k) plan and contributions.
- Long-term and short-term disability coverage.
- Paid parental leave.
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
- Opportunities for career growth, advancement, industry exposure, and collaboration with experienced teams.
About Cognizant
Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.