Cloud Data Architect

About Us

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. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com.

LEADING AT COGNIZANT

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At Cognizant, leadership transcends titles and is embodied in actions and behaviors. We empower our leaders at every level to drive business strategy, inspire teams, uphold our values, and foster an inclusive culture. We invite you to see how you can contribute to our story.

ROLE SUMMARY: Solutioning lead for Data Engineering – Azure and Databricks as primary stack

Role Responsibilities

• Architecture and Solutioning on Azure, databricks data platforms , expertise on architecture patterns - data warehosue, lakehouse, data fabric and datamesh Sizing ,Estimation and Implementation plan for solutioning
• Solution Prototyping, Advisory and orchestrating in-person/remote workshops
• Work with hyperscalers and platform vendors to understand and test platform roadmaps and develop joint solutions
• Own end-to-end solutions working across various teams in Cognizant - Sales, Delivery and Global solutioning
• Own key accounts as Architecture advisory and establish deep client relationships
• Contribute to practice by developing reusable assets and solutions
  
  

Job Requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or a related field
• Minimum 15 years’ experience as Solution Architect designing and developing data architecture patterns
• Minimum 5-year hands-on experience in building Databricks based solutions
• Minimum 3 years’ experience as Solution Architect in pre-sales team driving the sales process from a technical solution standpoint
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to present complex Cloud Data Architecture solutions concepts to technical and executive audience (leveraging PPTs, Demos and Whiteboard)
• Deep expertise in designing Azure and Databricks
• Strong expertise in handling large and complex RFPs/RFIs and collaborating with multiple service lines & platform vendors in a fast-paced environment
• Strong relationship building skills and ability to provide technical advisory and guidance
• Technology architecture & implementation experience with deep implementation experience with Data solutions
• 15~20 years of experience in Data Engineering and 5+ Years Data Engineering Experience on cloud data engineering
• Technology pre sales experience – Architecture, Effort sizing , Estimation and Solution defense
• Data architecture patterns– Data Warehouse , Data Lake , Data Mesh , Lake house , Data as a product
• Develop or Co-develop proofs of concept and prototypes with customer teams
• Excellent understanding of distributed computing fundamentals
• Experience working with one or more major cloud vendors
• Deep expertise on End to End Pipeline ( or ETL) development following best practices and including orchestration, Optimization of Data pipelines
• Strong understanding of the full CI/CD lifecycle
• Large legacy migration ( Hadoop , Terdata like) experience to Cloud Data platforms
• Expert level proficiency in engineering & optimizing with various data engineering ingestion patterns - Batch, Micro Batch, Streaming and API
• Understand imperatives of change data capture with tools & best practices POV
• Architect and Solution Data Governance capability pillars supporting modern data eco system
• Data services and various consumption archetypes including semantic layers, BI tools and AI&ML
• Thought leadership designing self-service data engineering platforms & solutions
  
  

Core Platform – Databricks

• Ability to engage and offer differing points of view to customers architecture using Databricks platform
• Strong understanding of the Lake house Architecture
• Implementation expertise using Delta Lake
• Security design and implementation on Databricks
• Scala or pipelines development in multi-hop pipeline architecture
• Architecture and Implementation experience with Spark and Delta Lake performance tuning including topics such as cluster sizing
  
  

Preferred Skills

• Gen-AI architecture patterns
• Data Quality and Data Governance
• Cloud Cost Monitoring and Optimization