Functional Analyst Lead - Utilities
- Cognizant
- 9 - 14 years
- Hyderabad
- 3 days ago
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Job Description
Functional Consultant - Lead (Utilities)
Location: Chennai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad
Experience: 9+ Years
Responsibilities
- Work with clients to establish a clear connection between business goals/strategies to capability development, and implementation to achieving desired business value.
- Define product / platform strategies and solutions focused in Utilities domain
- Understand the scope and define business requirements with the business stakeholders
- Translate business needs into functional specifications and detailed requirements
- Map business processes to identify improvement in Utilities back-office operations
- Lead backlog creation and provide functional guidance during sprint planning
- Gather and document functional requirements from stakeholders
- Create detailed design document that outlines the proposed solutions
- Work within Agile/Scrum delivery frameworks, ensuring requirements are clearly captured, refined, and prioritized in collaboration with product and development teams
- Prepare functional use cases, detailed user stories
- Review test plans prepared by QA Team, Support UAT
- Assist in resolving scope and requirements related queries
- Manage change requests / enhancements / features
- Work with cross-functional teams with different time zones
- Advanced problem-solving skills
- Ability to articulate requirements (good communication)
- Provide training and support to end-users and stakeholders on processes
- Active participation in daily meetings with the functional and development team, as well as frequent meetings with stakeholders and key users
- Create and maintain long-term working relationships with technology teams, functional counterparts, vendors, and business partners.
Qualifications
- The track record and experience to achieve the above, which includes ideally 8+ years of management consulting experience in the Utilities (Electric or water) domain, where at least 2 of those (though ideally 4+) have been technology (business or technical consultative) team lead experience
- Has worked as an IT Analyst, IT Project Manager, IT Program Manager, IT Business Analysis or Product Management in the Utilities domain
- Prior experience supporting or leading cloud migration projects is preferred, with familiarity in assessing legacy systems, defining migration strategies, and collaborating with technical teams to enable cloud adoption
- Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to think strategically.
- Exhibit excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence stakeholders.
- Show proficiency in project management methodologies and tools.
- Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies and hands-on experience using Jira (or similar tools) to manage user stories, track progress, and support sprint activities
- Thrive in ambiguous or fastchanging environments with a strong bias for action and the ability to drive clarity
- Have a proven track record of delivering successful consulting projects.
- Display a deep understanding of the Energy/ Utility sector including market trends and challenges.
- Be adept at using data analytics to drive decision-making and strategy development.
- Be capable of working effectively in a hybrid work model balancing remote and in-office responsibilities.
- Show a commitment to continuous improvement and staying current with industry advancements.
- Exhibit strong leadership qualities with the ability to mentor and develop junior team members.
- Personal leadership and a desire to create a culture that enables exceptional outcomes; the embodiment of Cognizants Core Values of: Work as one, Raise the bar, dare to innovate, Do the right thing, Own it
- Ability to travel if needed for business requirements
- masters degree from an accredited college or university, or equivalent
Job Classification
Industry: IT Services & ConsultingFunctional Area / Department: ConsultingRole Category: IT ConsultingRole: Functional ConsultantEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: CognizantLocation(s): Hyderabad
Keyskills: Digital Transformation Business Analysis Utility Functional consultant IT Project Management Energy Management utilities Energy Electricity Strategy Consulting Consulting Business Transformation Smart Grid
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