Lead Business Analyst MDM

Cognizant; Stockholms kommun; On-site; SEK 900,000 - 1,150,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant in Stockholm seeks a Lead Business Analyst to lead discovery for a Party Master Data Management initiative in financial services. You will translate enterprise needs into validated requirements and practical target processes, working with business areas, data specialists, architects, and governance stakeholders.

The role emphasizes leading workshops, shaping the operating model, and ensuring governance and traceability across teams. On-site availability in Stockholm is required.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in business analysis, preferably within complex enterprise transformation programs.
• Strong experience with Party or Customer Master Data Management, customer-data initiatives, or related data-governance programs.
• Solid banking or broader financial-services experience, including work in regulated environments.

Responsibilities

• Plan, lead, and facilitate discovery workshops across business areas and group functions.
• Translate business objectives and stakeholder needs into clear requirements, use cases, business rules, and target processes.
• Define ownership, decision rights, and governance requirements for Party and Customer master data.
• Assess current processes, identify gaps, dependencies, and improvement opportunities, and help shape the future-state operating model.
• Drive prioritisation, requirements traceability, validation, and formal stakeholder sign-off.
• Produce clear, decision-ready documentation and ensure alignment between business, data, architecture, and delivery teams.
• Support roadmap development, implementation planning, and business-case inputs.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Workshops facilitation

Requirements gathering

Process modelling

Documentation

Structured problem solving

Regulated environment experience

Job description

Are you an experienced Business Analyst who can bring structure to complex data and business challenges? Cognizant is looking for a Lead Business Analyst to lead business discovery for a strategically important Party Master Data Management initiative within financial services. You will work closely with business areas, group functions, data specialists, architects, and governance stakeholders to translate enterprise needs into validated requirements and practical target processes.

What you will do

• Plan, lead, and facilitate discovery workshops across business areas and group functions.

• Translate business objectives and stakeholder needs into clear requirements, use cases, business rules, and target processes.

• Define ownership, decision rights, and governance requirements for Party and Customer master data.

• Assess current processes, identify gaps, dependencies, and improvement opportunities, and help shape the future-state operating model.

• Drive prioritisation, requirements traceability, validation, and formal stakeholder sign-off.

• Produce clear, decision-ready documentation and ensure alignment between business, data, architecture, and delivery teams.

• Support roadmap development, implementation planning, and business-case inputs.

What you bring

• 8+ years of experience in business analysis, preferably within complex enterprise transformation programs.

• Strong experience with Party or Customer Master Data Management, customer-data initiatives, or related data-governance programs.

• Solid banking or broader financial-services experience, including work in regulated environments.

• Proven ability to lead workshops, manage senior stakeholders, challenge constructively, and build consensus across functions.

• Excellent requirements, process-modelling, traceability, and documentation skills.

• A structured and pragmatic mindset, with the ability to turn ambiguity into clear decisions and actionable outcomes.

• Availability to work on-site in Stockholm as required.

About Cognizant

Cognizant is a global technology and professional services company helping leading organizations modernize technology, reimagine processes, and transform experiences. In Sweden, we combine local market understanding with global expertise across financial services, data, cloud, engineering, and AI to help clients address complex challenges and create measurable value.

Why join us?

• Play a leading role in a high-visibility enterprise data transformation.

• Work with experienced colleagues across business consulting, data, architecture, and technology.

• Gain exposure to complex banking challenges where your analysis will directly influence decisions, governance, and delivery.

• Develop your career in a collaborative international organization that values teamwork, ownership, integrity, innovation, and continuous learning.

• Combine Cognizant’s global capabilities with close collaboration alongside Nordic clients and stakeholders.