Education Consulting
About Cognizant Consulting (CC)
CC drives growth in multiple ways. One is for our clients. We partner with them to accelerate digital business transformation throughout their organizations. Equally importantly, we drive pull-through revenue and profit for Cognizant also. Cognizant Consulting practice comprises of over 5500+ consulting professionals globally across various horizontal and vertical practices.
Cognizant Consulting, CMT
CC CMT practice serves K12, HigherEd and Publishing segments. We work with some of the leading education companies. Our team has a mix of cross -functional skills, bringing diverse set of project experiences in industry, technology, business and product / project management skill sets. It has a proven track record of executing large and complex transformation programs. Some of our consultants work closely with our clients over a long period of time and become an integral part of clients’ transformation journey and their success stories. We also have consultants who work with multiple clients and follow up with the new business opportunities in digital technologies such as the cloud, the internet of things (IoT), analytics, automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence (AI).
Role Overview
As we drive towards a merit based, high-performance culture, our focus is on inducting super charged talents into our team with high degree of commitment towards growth of our CC CMT team. We are looking for consulting professionals with experience in transformation projects and those who have a consultative mindset to address customer pain points.
Relevant Experience Levels: About 2 years – 15 years+
Locations: Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad
Education: Engineering/equivalent (mandatory), MBA (highly preferred)
Travel: Per project requirements (in line with Covid guidelines, as applicable)
Mandatory Skillsets and Experience:
Domain Knowledge
· Experience in consulting-oriented roles in education industry, business/strategy, process or technology areas
· Good understanding of key education and publishing business processes in domains /sub domains such as Content, Assessments, Rights & Royalties for K12 and HigherEd segments
Project skills
Elicit requirements using interviews, requirements workshops, use case scenarios
Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, decompose high-level information into details and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs
Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal stakeholders
Break-down an epic into user stories to be consumed by the Dev & QA team
Experience of Agile development methodologies
Experience with tools such as JIRA, Confluence, VersionOne
Acts as a liaison between the business teams, SMEs, project management and the technical team members
Able to drive requirements related discussions independently
Can document as-is and to-be processes
Can work with the Product Manager to define the product roadmap/backlog
Understanding of the feature prioritization frameworks
Experience working in large deals and business pursuits
Understand the industry trends, business imperatives, strategic growth areas and underlying technology trends.
Superior English oral and writing skills
Multi-tasking abilities
Confident, result-oriented and can work with minimal supervision
Possesses great analytical skills
Desirable Skillsets:
Exposure and understanding of key digital battlegrounds such as IoT, Edge, Analytics and Cloud.
PMP / CSPO / CSM certifications are desirable.
Domain Skills
SNo Primary Skill Proficiency Level * Rqrd./Dsrd.
1 Network Engineering NA Required
* Proficiency Legends
Proficiency Level Generic Reference
PL1 The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.
PL2 The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.
PL3 The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.
PL4 The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.
Schedule: Full-time
Shift: Day Job
Travel: No