Senior Consultant

Cognizant; Chennai District; Hybrid; INR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Migration Business Analyst to analyze, document, and manage 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 ensure successful migration outcomes.

The candidate will support data assessment, business process analysis, migration strategy definition, data mapping, reconciliation and stakeholder

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Life Sciences, Computer Science or related field.
• 5–10 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, document management, ERP, CRM, or Veeva platforms).

Responsibilities

• Elicit, analyse and document migration-related business requirements.
• Understand current-state and future-state processes impacted by migration.
• Translate business requirements into functional migration specifications.
• Support data discovery, assessment, profiling and mapping activities.
• Manage stakeholder interviews, workshops and requirement gathering sessions.
• Define migration validation and reconciliation criteria.
• Support System Integration Testing (SIT), UAT and migration testing activities.
• Facilitate defect triage meetings with business and technical teams.

Skills

Requirements elicitation

Process mapping

Gap analysis

Workshop facilitation

Stakeholder management

Change impact assessment

Analytical thinking

Attention to detail

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Tools

Veeva Vault

RIM Systems

SQL

Excel

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

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

Responsibilities

Key Responsibilities

• Business Analysis Requirements Management
• Elicit analyse and document migration-related 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

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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

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