Senior Consultant, BFS Data Management

Cognizant Consulting is more than just the consulting practice of Cognizant. We are a global community of over 5,000 experts helping clients reshape their organizations. By combining our deep industry knowledge with technological advice, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 companies. Now we are looking for our next colleague to shape the future of business together with us. Is that you?

As a Senior Consultant BFS Data Management, you will make an impact by supporting and leading defined analysis and delivery activities within consulting assignments for BFS data management. You will translate business needs into practical requirements for processes, data, and technology and build trusted client relationships. You will become a valued member of the BFS Consulting team.

• Take responsibility for defined analysis and delivery activities, including planning, dependencies, risks, quality, and timely delivery.

• Conduct explorations, current state analyses, target process design, requirements definition, test support, and implementation readiness. Coordinate stakeholders and facilitate workshops to deliver clear, implementable results.

• Advise clients on data governance, data quality, metadata, data lineage, master data, and data products. Assess and improve processes for strategy, ownership, stewardship, identification of critical data, controls, remediation, access, and retention periods.

• Translate objectives into requirements for processes, data, controls, and technology within cloud data platforms, lakehouses, data warehouses, MDM, data catalogs, quality, BI, and AI. Define requirements for customer, account, transaction, product, finance, risk, and compliance data.

• Apply the Dutch and EU context, including privacy, supervisory reporting, resilience, and responsible AI. Contribute to proposals, client presentations, reusable assets, and thought leadership.

At Cognizant, we strive to offer flexibility wherever possible. Based on the business requirements of this role, this is a hybrid role in which you will work two to three days per week on-site at a client or at the Cognizant office in Amsterdam. Regardless of your work arrangement, we support a healthy work-life balance with our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are correct as of the publication date. These may change based on the project you work on and the requirements of the organization and the client. We always communicate clearly about the expectations for the role.

• Extensive relevant experience in BFS data management, banking, consulting within financial services, IT business analysis, or transformation delivery.

• Experience with end-to-end IT business analysis and the ability to assess technology-agnostic capabilities, architectural implications, integrations, controls, and non-functional requirements.

• Knowledge of enterprise data governance, ownership, stewardship, critical data, data quality, metadata, data lineage, master and reference data, access and retention periods, and the ability to translate regulatory, risk, and business needs into data controls and measurable quality results.

• Strong consulting, problem-solving, workshop, storytelling, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to connect business processes to data requirements.

• Excellent proficiency in English, both oral and written, plus a relevant bachelor's or master's degree or equivalent work experience.

• Proficiency in Dutch and experience with Dutch or Benelux organizations in financial services, including knowledge of supervision and relevant EU regulation.

• Insight into cloud data platforms, lakehouse and warehouse patterns, MDM, data catalogs, data quality tooling, integration, APIs, BI, and AI, plus broader BFS technology landscapes.

• Experience with customer, account, transaction, product, finance, risk, compliance, reference, and third-party data domains within financial services.

• The ability to create buy-in in a Dutch, consensus-oriented environment with factual recommendations and pragmatic execution, and willingness to work in and travel with international teams.

• A client-oriented, analytical, and results-oriented approach focused on responsible innovation, client interest, high-quality service, and the development of the advisory practice.

We love to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in different ways. Do not hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the stated minimum requirements. Think about your transferable experience and unique skills that set you apart and allow you to add something new and valuable to this role.

Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant's consulting practice, we're a global community of 5,000+ experts dedicated to helping clients reimagine their business. Blending our deep industry and technology advisory capability, we create innovative business solutions for Fortune 500 clients. And now, we're looking for our next colleague who'll join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?

As a Senior Consultant, BFS Data Management, you will make an impact by supporting and leading defined analysis and delivery activities within BFS data management consulting engagements, translating business needs into practical process, data and technology requirements while building trusted client relationships. You will be a valued member of the Banking & Financial Services (BFS) Consulting team and work collaboratively with our ecosystem of clients, alliances, start-ups and design agencies, and clients.

• Own defined analysis and delivery activities, including plans, dependencies, risks, quality and the timely completion of outputs.

• Conduct discovery, current-state assessment, target-process design, requirements definition, testing support and implementation-readiness activities, coordinating stakeholders and facilitating workshops to produce clear, implementation-ready deliverables.

• Advise clients across data governance, quality, metadata, lineage, master data and data products, and assess and improve processes covering strategy, ownership, stewardship, critical-data identification, controls, remediation, access and retention.

• Translate objectives into process, data, control and technology requirements across cloud data platforms, lakehouse, warehouse, MDM, catalogues, quality, BI and AI, defining data requirements and controls covering customer, account, transaction, product, finance, risk and compliance data.

• Apply Netherlands and EU context, including Dutch and EU privacy, regulatory reporting, resilience and responsible AI, and contribute to proposals, client presentations, reusable assets and thought leadership.

At Cognizant, we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 2-3 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you're engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.

• Strong relevant experience in BFS data management, banking or financial-services consulting, IT business analysis or transformation delivery, with demonstrated ownership of complex analysis, deliverables and stakeholder coordination.

• End-to-end IT business analysis skills covering problem framing, elicitation, process modelling, user stories, acceptance criteria, traceability, testing and business readiness, with a technology-agnostic ability to assess capabilities, architecture implications, integrations, controls and non-functional requirements.

• Knowledge of enterprise data governance, ownership, stewardship, critical-data identification, data quality, metadata, lineage, master and reference data, access and retention, and the ability to translate regulatory, risk and business needs into data controls, quality rules and measurable data-quality outcomes.

• Strong consulting, structured problem-solving, workshop facilitation, storytelling and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to connect business processes with data ownership, quality, lineage, privacy, reporting and migration requirements.

• Excellent written and spoken English is mandatory, together with a bachelor or master degree in business, finance, economics, technology or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.

• Dutch language capability and experience with Dutch or Benelux financial-services organisations, including knowledge of the Dutch supervisory landscape and relevant EU regulation for the subdomain.

• Understanding of cloud data platforms, lakehouse and warehouse patterns, MDM, data catalogues, data-quality tooling, integration, APIs, BI and AI enablement, and broader BFS technology landscapes including core platforms, workflow, cloud, data, analytics, automation and digital channels.

• Experience working across customer, account, transaction, product, finance, risk, compliance, reference and third-party data domains in financial services.

• Ability to build alignment in a Dutch consensus-oriented environment through fact-based recommendations and pragmatic delivery, and comfort working in hybrid international teams travelling to client locations in the Netherlands and Benelux.

• A client-focused, analytical and outcome-oriented approach that simplifies complexity, challenges constructively and is committed to responsible innovation, customer interests, high-quality delivery and developing the practice through coaching, accelerators, case studies and thought leadership.

We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways. Don't hesitate to apply, even if you only meet the minimum requirements listed. Think about your transferable experiences and unique skills that make you stand out as someone who can bring new and exciting things to this role.