Cognizant

About

Montana Leadership: Kate Pace, Head of Site Strategy & Operations; Kymberly Corwin, Head of Workforce Development; Matt Archibald, Head of Commercial; Derek Magnusen, Head of Delivery

Year Founded: 2011

Location: Missoula, Montana

Full-time Montana Employees: 250 

What They Do: As a professional business and IT consulting firm, Advanced Technology Group (ATG), a Cognizant company is a global leader in Quote to Cash advisory, implementation, and managed services to both commercial and large enterprise brands seeking increased agility in the “everything as-a-service” economy.

Using decades of domain expertise and a refined set of delivery accelerators, ATG Cognizant provides guidance and execution across their client’s most complex and vital business processes.

The driving force behind ATG Cognizant is its inclusive and community-centered workplace culture. Work hard, play hard is their operating model. Outside of working hours you can find employees volunteering at community events, hosting fly tying nights and river floats, and playing hockey. ATG Cognizant believes in the power of teams and builds lasting frameworks for training and enablement to help rising talent be successful in the demanding world of consulting. 

The 12-week-long paid Aim Higher program, in partnership with the University of Montana, has graduated over 225 Salesforce consultants to date, and the average salary is three times the median in Missoula and in Missoula County. In 2022, a study conducted by the University of Montana’s Bureau of Economic Research (BBER) found that ATG Cognizant contributed more than $122 million to the Montana economy and supported 814 local jobs in 2021.