Digital Banking Transformation Lead | Consulting Manager

Cognizant; Bay City (TX); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Consulting seeks a Consulting Manager, Digital Banking to lead strategic digital banking transformations. You will bridge business, product, and technology teams to ensure initiatives align with objectives, delivery commitments, and regulatory requirements.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, Technology Owners, and Portfolio Management to steer roadmaps, plan releases, and manage risks in a hybrid work environment, with 3–4 days per week in Plano, TX or the San Francisco Bay Area.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Project Management, Program Management, Product Delivery, or Transformation Management experience
• 5+ years of Digital Banking experience
• Strong understanding of Consumer, Commercial, or Business Banking products and operations
• Proven experience leading large-scale technology and business transformation initiatives within financial services
• Strong experience with Agile and Waterfall delivery methodologies
• Experience managing product roadmaps, backlogs, PI planning activities, and release execution
• Demonstrated experience coordinating Product Owners, Technology Owners, Business Teams, and Portfolio Management stakeholders
• Experience managing enterprise system integrations and large-scale program delivery
• Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, financial management, risk management, and dependency tracking
• Experience developing business requirements, process flows, use cases, test plans, and business analysis deliverables
• Experience managing regulatory, compliance-driven, or risk-sensitive initiatives
• Excellent executive communication, stakeholder management, and organizational skills
• Ability to operate independently and drive delivery with minimal supervision

Responsibilities

• Own product delivery execution, roadmap governance, backlog management, and prioritization across digital banking initiatives
• Partner with Product Owners and Technology Owners to drive planning, PI planning, quarterly planning events, and cross-functional alignment
• Manage program risks, dependencies, impediments, budgets, forecasts, and governance activities
• Develop and maintain business requirements, process flows, use cases, testing artifacts, and implementation documentation
• Lead executive reporting, stakeholder communications, system integration coordination, operational readiness activities, and regulatory program delivery

Skills

Project management

Digital Banking

Agile delivery

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Delivery independence

Tools

Jira

Hyperion forecasting

Job description

Cognizant Consulting seeks a Consulting Manager, Digital Banking to lead strategic digital banking transformations. You will bridge business, product, and technology teams to ensure initiatives align with objectives, delivery commitments, and regulatory requirements.

You will collaborate with Product Owners, Technology Owners, and Portfolio Management to steer roadmaps, plan releases, and manage risks in a hybrid work environment, with 3–4 days per week in Plano, TX or the San Francisco Bay Area.