Hybrid Energy & Utilities Consulting Manager & Senior BA

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

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.