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Cloud Data Architect

Cloud Data Architect

Cognizant

15 years

0 Lacs

Chennai, Tamil Nadu

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Azure Computer Science Sales Master's degree Bachelor's degree APIs AI Communication skills

Work Mode

Remote

Job Type

Full Time

Job Description

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

This is a Leadership role at Cognizant. We believe how you lead is as important as what you deliver. Cognizant leaders at every level: Drive our business strategy and inspire teams around our future. Live the leadership behaviors, leading themselves, others and the business. Uphold our Values, role modeling them in every action and decision. Nurture our people and culture, creating a workplace where all can thrive.

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

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