Senior Lead Data Management 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

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.