Technical Lead – Commercial Lending​/ACBS

Consulting Manager, ACBS Technical Lead

Location: Pittsburgh, PA (preferred) or remote.
USA

Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at

Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise. With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise, program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value.

We provide several Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high-performing organization continually expanding our client base and increasingly recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we are growing!

We are looking for Consulting Managers, Technical Lead who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence:
1) Project Execution,
2) Expertise,
3) Business Development,
4) Practice Development, &
5) People Development. As a Consulting Manager, this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues to clarify requirements and support delivery of effective solutions; applying technical and domain expertise to solve core client business challenges or inefficiencies; developing and strengthening domain knowledge and maintaining an accurate understanding of Cognizant’s industry propositions and consulting capabilities; supporting business development activities of senior leaders;

contributing to the development of practice initiatives or new service offerings (e.g., Strategic Control Points, development of consulting assets); and being an inspiring colleague, promoting team motivation, partnership, and ownership for projects. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.

Our solutions are in demand and we’re passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!

We are seeking a seasoned FIS ACBS Technical Lead with strong expertise in Lansa and IBM AS400 (iSeries) platforms to support Change the Bank (CTB) initiatives for Commercial and Institutional Banking (C&IB) operations. The role focuses on driving system enhancements, modernization, and integration efforts across the ACBS ecosystem while ensuring platform stability and scalability.

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of ACBS enhancements, upgrades, and interface integrations.
• Translate business and functional requirements into scalable technical solutions across ACBS modules.
• Develop, maintain, and optimize Lansa and RPGLE programs supporting new business capabilities.
• Oversee integration with enterprise systems via MQ and API services.
• Partner with product and infrastructure teams to plan and execute ACBS version upgrades, patch deployments, and regression testing.
• Contribute to cloud transition initiatives (e.g., IBM cloud) and support data migration and connectivity re-establishment.
• Mentor offshore development teams, perform technical reviews, and ensure adherence to best practices and quality standards.

• 8–12 years of experience in IT with 5+ years in FIS ACBS…