Consulting Manager - Senior Business Analyst, Energy & Utilities Consulting

Cognizant; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401(k) plan

Employee stock purchase plan

Paid holidays and time off

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting in Houston, Texas, seeks a Consulting Manager - Senior Business Analyst in Energy & Utilities to lead business analysis and transformation workstreams that improve utility operations, decision-making, and technology delivery.

The role emphasizes requirements elicitation, backlog support, and delivering measurable outcomes across electric, gas, water, and renewables, with a hybrid work model requiring 3–4 days in the office.

Qualifications

• 8-15 years of utilities consulting, business analysis, product management, solution consulting, program delivery, or technology-enabled transformation.
• Strong Energy & Utilities experience including Meter-to-Cash, billing, customer operations, outage management, grid reliability, asset/work management, field operations, or customer analytics.
• Proven experience leading end-to-end business analysis: elicitation, workshop facilitation, process analysis, documentation, user stories, acceptance criteria, stakeholder validation.
• Experience guiding client-facing workstreams and supporting Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery, including backlog management, testing, UAT, issue resolution, release planning, and adoption.

Responsibilities

• Lead business analysis and transformation workstreams across electric, gas, water, renewable energy, transmission, distribution, customer, and field operations.
• Elicit, analyze, validate, and document requirements, user stories, use cases, process flows, data needs, reporting, and acceptance criteria.
• Connect business objectives to product, platform, data, analytics, and technology solutions while supporting backlog refinement, testing, UAT, release readiness, training, and adoption.
• Manage client and stakeholder relationships, define KPIs and dashboards, lead cross-functional teams, and mentor analysts and consultants to deliver measurable outcomes.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Communication

Facilitation

Presentation

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business or related field

Tools

Palantir Foundry

AIP

Job description

Consulting Manager - Senior Business Analyst, Energy & Utilities

Houston, Texas, USA

About Cognizant Consulting

Cognizant Consulting is more than Cognizant's consulting practice. We are 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 are looking for our next colleague who will join us in shaping the future of business. Could it be you?

About the role

As a Consulting Manager - Senior Business Analyst, Energy & Utilities, you will make an impact by leading business analysis and transformation workstreams that improve utility operations, decision-making, and technology delivery. You will be a valued member of Cognizant Consulting's Energy & Utilities team and work collaboratively with utility business leaders, product owners, field operations, data and technology teams, vendors, delivery partners, and clients.

The core requirements are strong business analysis capability and Energy & Utilities industry experience. Experience with Palantir Foundry and AIP or utility vegetation management will help you stand out. Candidates may bring strength in either specialized area and are not required to have both.

In this role, you will:

• Lead business analysis and transformation workstreams across electric, gas, water, renewable energy, transmission, distribution, customer, and field operations.
• Elicit, analyze, validate, and document business and functional requirements, user stories, use cases, process flows, data and integration needs, reporting requirements, and acceptance criteria.
• Connect utility business objectives to product, platform, data, analytics, and technology solutions, while supporting backlog refinement, testing, UAT, defect triage, release readiness, training, and adoption.
• Manage client and stakeholder relationships, define KPIs and dashboards, lead cross-functional teams, and mentor analysts and consultants to deliver measurable business outcomes.

Work model

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3-4 days a week in a client or Cognizant office in Houston, Texas. 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 are engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured, we will always be clear about role expectations.

What you must have to be considered

• 8-15 years of experience in utilities consulting, business analysis, product management, solution consulting, program delivery, or technology-enabled transformation.
• Strong Energy & Utilities experience and knowledge of utility processes such as Meter-to-Cash, billing, customer operations, outage management, grid reliability, asset and work management, field operations, or customer analytics.
• Proven experience leading end-to-end business analysis, including requirements elicitation, workshop facilitation, process analysis, functional documentation, user stories, acceptance criteria, and stakeholder validation.
• Experience leading client-facing workstreams and supporting Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid delivery, including backlog management, testing, UAT, issue resolution, release planning, and business adoption.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication, facilitation, presentation, and team leadership skills; a bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, Information Systems, Computer Science, Operations Management, Data Science, or a related discipline; and the ability to work onsite in Houston 3-4 days per week.

These will help you succeed

• Palantir Foundry and AIP experience involving ontologies, object/link/action types, data products, pipelines, data quality, governance, lineage, Foundry applications, AI-enabled workflows, agents, automation, or GenAI.
• Utility vegetation management experience involving cycle trimming, hazard trees, pre-inspection, work planning, permitting, customer notification, contractor scheduling, quality assurance, work verification, closeout, or regulatory reporting.
• Familiarity with CIS, CRM, EAM, work management, mobile workforce, contractor portals, GIS, OMS, DMS, ADMS, SCADA, AMI, outage and restoration data, or field service platforms.
• Experience connecting vegetation management, data, or operational analytics to outage prevention, feeder reliability, circuit prioritization, asset risk, storm readiness, wildfire or hazard mitigation, field productivity, and executive reporting.
• Experience delivering complex utility transformation programs for a large utility or Fortune 500 organization, mentoring consultants, or holding relevant PMP, Agile/Scrum, ITIL, GIS, cloud, or utility vegetation management credentials.

We're excited to meet people who share our mission and can make an impact in a variety of ways.

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.

Compensation

This position is eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Employee stock purchase plan and employee assistance program
• 10 paid holidays plus paid time off, paid parental leave, and fertility assistance
• Learning and development certifications and programs

Post closing date

Applications will be accepted until 28th Oct, 2026