Digital Business Architect (D/F/M) - Life Science

Job Description

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.
At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative and successful. And this is your chance to be part of the success story: we are looking for

Digital Business Architect (D/F/M) - Life Science

Your Opportunity

Cognizant Digital Business is the service line that solves business problems by lending right brain creative and social science led disciplines like human centric ethnographic & anthropological research, qualitative insights, experienced design with technology and data disciplines like artificial intelligence, digital engineering, Internet of things (IoT) and Blockchain.
As part of the ongoing growth of Cognizant Digital Business across Europe, we are building a team of Solution Architects. This team will be a blend of architects with business and technology backgrounds so that they can build and deliver end-to-end holistic solutions. You could be a part of it!

Your Responsibilities

• Deliver and own the solution of the MVP or pilots in a stage of Presales
• Provide ongoing oversight and advisory to the interdisciplinary teams and remove blockers to scale up and roll out
• Promote new ways of working with lean product acceleration, rapid prototyping, consumer insights and data driven decision making
• Promote implementation of digital engineering concepts - Dev Ops, microservices driven and cloud native architecture, full stack modularization
• Build digital scale with subject matter experts and achieve interdisciplinary collaboration in business consulting, experience design, product management, software development, IT architecture, Infrastructure, Artificial Intelligence an IoT
• Leverage partnerships and alliances with leading technology platforms like CMS Platforms, CRM Solutions and Public Cloud Platforms
• Keep Cognizant pitches and propositions “on trend” – based on insights from industry analysts, competitor activity, evolution of the industry ecosystem, consumer insights

Our ideal candidate
• College degree required in related field and comprehensive knowledge with at least couple of years of experience
• Ability to work in a cross-functional environment and to identify issues and develop hypotheses to solve issues
• Passion and curiosity for where digital can create value and disruption – e.g. new business models, shifts in channels, propositions, supply chains, partnerships
• Fluency in German and English
In Addition you are familiar with two of these topics:
1. P&L responsibility in a multichannel ecommerce/ digital trading business
2. Commercial launch and scale up of new products, channels, propositions
3. Product Owner with delivering outcomes through 1 or more multi-disciplinary scrum teams
4. Strategy with hands on execution experience – e.g. In a start-up spanning market research, business modelling, consumer labs, agile product development, commercial launch, scale up
5. Digital and performance marketing –cost of sales responsibilities for channels like paid search, SEO, affiliate marketing, email marketing, partnership led distribution (B2B/B2B2C)

What you can expect

• Become part of the ‘flag ship’ success story - We go through enormous growth!
• We are driven by technology – We have a tremendous technology backbone
• ‘can do’ team spirit
• Environment where you can make your own ideas reality
• Drive your own career
• Market conform benefits