Senior Consultant

Cognizant; Chennai; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Migration Business Analyst to analyze, document, and manage migration requirements for enterprise transformation projects. The role bridges business stakeholders, data owners, migration teams, and technical leads across the migration lifecycle.

You will support data assessment, mapping, and validation, participate in planning, and ensure traceability from requirements to migrated data, with a hybrid offshore work model and exposure to complex Veeva/RIM/ERP environments.

Qualifications

• Elicit analyse and document migration-related business requirements
• Understand current-state and future-state processes impacted by migration
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops and requirement gathering sessions
• Translate business requirements into functional migration specifications
• Support migration governance meetings and provide status updates
• Analyse source systems and associated data structures
• Identify data objects, attributes, relationships and dependencies
• Assess data quality issues and cleansing requirements
• Support data profiling and data readiness assessments
• Document data ownership and stewardship responsibilities
• Define source-to-target mapping specifications
• Collaborate with business SMEs and technical teams to establish transformation rules
• Validate mapping logic against business requirements
• Maintain mapping documentation and change control records
• Ensure traceability between business requirements and migration specifications
• Support migration strategy and waves
• Identify migration risks, assumptions, dependencies and constraints
• Support mock migrations, cutover planning and deployment activities
• Assist in migration issue triaging and resolution management
• Define migration validation and reconciliation criteria
• Support SIT, UAT, PQ testing and migration testing activities
• Review test scenarios and evidence
• Facilitate defect triage with business and technical teams
• Ensure migrated data meets business acceptance criteria
• Act as liaison between business stakeholders and delivery teams
• Facilitate workshops and decision-making sessions
• Obtain approvals of requirements, mappings and validation results
• Communicate project progress, risks and issues to stakeholders
• Ensure migration documentation complies with regulatory requirements
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and traceability
• Support validation activities in regulated environments (GxP, CSV) participate in compliant migrations

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyse and document migration-related business requirements
• Understand current-state and future-state processes impacted by migration
• Conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops and requirement gathering sessions
• Translate business requirements into functional migration specifications
• Support migration governance meetings and provide status updates
• Analyse source systems and associated data structures
• Identify data objects, attributes, relationships and dependencies
• Assess data quality issues and cleansing requirements
• Support data profiling and data readiness assessments
• Document data ownership and stewardship responsibilities
• Define source-to-target mapping specifications
• Collaborate with business SMEs and technical teams to establish transformation rules
• Validate mapping logic against business requirements
• Maintain mapping documentation and change control records
• Ensure traceability between business requirements and migration specifications
• Support development of migration strategy and waves
• Participate in migration planning workshops
• Identify migration risks, assumptions, dependencies and constraints
• Support mock migrations, cutover planning and deployment activities
• Assist in migration issue triaging and resolution management
• Define migration validation and reconciliation criteria
• Support System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), PQ testing and migration testing activities
• Review test scenarios and test evidence
• Facilitate defect triage meetings with business and technical teams
• Ensure migrated data meets business acceptance criteria
• Act as primary liaison between business stakeholders and migration delivery teams
• Facilitate workshops and decision-making sessions
• Obtain approval of migration requirements mappings and validation results
• Communicate project progress, risks and issues to stakeholders
• Ensure migration documentation complies with organisational standards and regulatory requirements
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and traceability
• Support validation activities in regulated environments e.g. GxP, CSV

Skills

Requirements Elicitation

Process Mapping

Stakeholder Management

Workshop Facilitation

Change Impact

Analytical Thinking

Problem Solving

Attention to Detail

Communication

Risk Management

Documentation

Team Collaboration

Leadership Influence

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Veeva Vault

RIM Systems

SQL

Excel Advanced

JIRA

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Power BI

Job description

Job Summary

Job Description Migration Business Analyst

Position Title

Migration Business Analyst

Location

Hybrid Offshore

Reporting To

Project Manager Migration Lead Programme Manager

Role Summary

The Migration Business Analyst is responsible for analysing documenting and managing business and data migration requirements for enterprise transformation and migration programmes The role acts as a bridge between business stakeholders data owners migration teams technical architects and testing teams to ensu

Responsibilities

he individual will support data assessment business process analysis migration strategy definition data mapping reconciliation and stakeholder engagement throughout the migration lifecycle

Key Responsibilities

Business Analysis Requirements Management

Elicit analyse and document migrationrelated business requirements

Understand currentstate and futurestate business processes impacted by migration

Conduct stakeholder interviews workshops and requirementgathering sessions

Translate business requirements into functional migration specifications

Support migration governance meetings and provide status updates

Data Discovery Assessment

Analyse source systems and associated data structures

Identify data objects attributes relationships and dependencies

Assess data quality issues business rules and cleansing requirements

Support data profiling and data readiness assessments

Document data ownership and stewardship responsibilities

Data Mapping Transformation

Define sourcetotarget mapping specifications

Collaborate with business SMEs and technical teams to establish transformation rules

Validate mapping logic against business requirements

Maintain mapping documentation and change control records

Ensure traceability between business requirements and migration specifications

Migration Planning Execution Support

Support development of migration strategy and migration waves

Participate in migration planning workshops

Identify migration risks assumptions dependencies and constraints

Support mock migrations cutover planning and deployment activities

Assist in migration issue triaging and resolution management

Testing Validation

Define migration validation and reconciliation criteria

Support System Integration Testing SIT User Acceptance Testing UAT PQ testing and migration testing activities

Review test scenarios and test evidence

Facilitate defect triage meetings with business and technical teams

Ensure migrated data meets business acceptance criteria

Stakeholder Management

Act as primary liaison between business stakeholders and migration delivery teams

Facilitate workshops and decisionmaking sessions

Obtain approval of migration requirements mappings and validation results

Communicate project progress risks and issues to stakeholders

Compliance Documentation

Ensure migration documentation complies with organisational standards and regulatory requirements

Maintain auditready documentation and traceability

Support validation activities in regulated environments eg GxP CSV Life Sciences

Required Skills Experience

Education

Bachelors degree in Business Administration Information Technology Life Sciences Computer Science or related field

Experience

510 years of Business Analysis experience

3 years of experience in data migration system migration or transformation projects

Experience working in Agile and Waterfall delivery models

Experience supporting enterprise applications content management systems document management systems ERP CRM or Veeva platforms

Business Analysis Skills

Requirements elicitation and documentation

Process mapping and workflow analysis

Gap analysis

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder management

Change impact assessment

Data Migration Skills

Data profiling and analysis

Sourcetotarget mapping

Data transformation rules

Data reconciliation

Data quality assessment

Migration validation and testing

Tools Technologies

Preferred experience with

Veeva Vault

RIM Systems

SQL

Excel Advanced

JIRA

Confluence

Azure DevOps

Power BI

Preferred Life Sciences Experience

Veeva Vault Migration Programmes

Regulatory Information Management RIM

Clinical Systems

Quality Management Systems

Pharmacovigilance Systems

GxP and Computer System Validation CSV

Controlled document migration projects

Key Competencies

Analytical Thinking

Problem Solving

Attention to Detail

Stakeholder Engagement

Communication Facilitation

Risk Identification Management

Documentation Excellence

Collaboration Teamwork

Leadership Influencing Skills

Key Deliverables

Business Requirement Documents BRD

Functional Requirement Specifications FRS

Data Assessment Reports

SourcetoTarget Mapping Documents

Migration Business Rules

Data Validation and Reconciliation Reports

Migration Readiness Assessments

Migration Risk and Dependency Logs

UAT Support Documentation

Stakeholder Signoffs

Success Measures

Approved Migration Requirements

Accurate SourcetoTarget Mapping

Reduced Migration Defects

Successful Mock Migration Execution

Successful Production Cutover

Business Acceptance of Migrated Data

Ontime Delivery of Migration Milestones

Compliance with Regulatory and Quality Requirements

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.