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About Cognizant
Cognizant is a multinational IT services and consulting company offering digital transformation, technology, and business process services. It serves clients across financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, and other industries worldwide.
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As a Sr. Consulting Manager - Sr. Product Owner, you will join the Cognizant Consulting team to lead product strategy, roadmap development, and execution for transfer agency and fixed income securities processing platforms. You will define the product vision, manage prioritized backlogs, and partner with executive stakeholders, financial institutions, and government organizations to drive priorities. Your daily work involves translating business, regulatory, and operational requirements into user stories and acceptance criteria while facilitating Agile planning and release readiness. You will leverage expertise in securities servicing, shareholder recordkeeping, and income distribution to support cloud-hosted SaaS and digital service capabilities. Key technical requirements include experience with API-enabled enterprise platforms, DevSecOps, and managing complex operational workflows within highly regulated financial technology environments, specifically focusing on fixed income securities processing and corporate actions.
Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for transfer agency and fixed income securities processing platforms.
Own and prioritize the product backlog for shareholder servicing, ownership changes, income distribution, and fixed income processing.
Translate business, regulatory, and operational requirements into user stories, acceptance criteria, and release priorities.
Lead product strategy for cloud-hosted SaaS, digital service capabilities, and API-enabled platform evolution.
Facilitate Agile planning, backlog refinement, release planning, and readiness activities.
Partner with architecture, engineering, security, compliance, and DevSecOps teams to deliver business outcomes.
Serve as the primary voice of the customer while balancing strategic, operational, and delivery objectives.
What we're looking for
12+ years of experience in financial technology, capital markets, securities servicing, transfer agency, trust, custody, or banking technology environments.
Minimum 5 years of Agile Product Ownership or equivalent product leadership experience.
Experience defining product strategy, managing roadmaps, and prioritizing across stakeholder groups.
Strong understanding of registered transfer agency operations, shareholder recordkeeping, ownership changes, and income distribution processing.
Experience with fixed income securities processing, lifecycle events, corporate actions, and operational workflows.
Experience with API-enabled enterprise platforms and cloud-hosted SaaS solutions.
Experience within highly regulated environments.
U.S. Citizenship required with ability to obtain a Public Trust or equivalent clearance.
Bachelor degree in Business, Finance, Technology, Engineering or related field.
Experience supporting U.S. registered transfer agents, broker-dealers, trust organizations, financial institutions, or government clients (preferred).
Experience partnering with architecture, engineering, security, and DevSecOps teams (preferred).
Strong understanding of regulatory controls, governance, and operational risk management (preferred).
Deep understanding of securities servicing, transfer agency, fixed income, shareholder servicing, and capital markets operations (preferred).
MBA, advanced business degree, or equivalent professional experience (preferred).
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