Principal AWS Data Solutions Architect

Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) is a leading provider of information technology, consulting, and business process outsourcing services, dedicated to helping the world's leading companies build stronger businesses. Headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey (U.S.). Cognizant is a member of the NASDAQ-100, the S&P 500, the Forbes Global 1000, and the Fortune 500 and we are among the top performing and fastest growing companies in the world.

Practice - AIA - Artificial Intelligence and Analytics

About AI & Analytics: Artificial intelligence (AI) and the data it collects and analyzes will soon sit at the core of all intelligent, human-centric businesses. By decoding customer needs, preferences, and behaviors, our clients can understand exactly what services, products, and experiences their consumers need. Within AI & Analytics, we work to design the future-a future in which trial-and-error business decisions have been replaced by informed choices and data-supported strategies.

By applying AI and data science, we help leading companies to prototype, refine, validate, and scale their AI and analytics products and delivery models. Cognizant's AIA practice takes insights that are buried in data and provides businesses a clear way to transform how they source, interpret and consume their information. Our clients need flexible data structures and a streamlined data architecture that quickly turns data resources into informative, meaningful intelligence.

*Please note, this role is not able to offer visa transfer or sponsorship now or in the future*

Responsibilities:

* 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

* Ability to engage and offer differing points of view to customers architecture using AWS and Snowflake platform

* Strong understanding of the Snowflake platform including evolving services like Snowpark

* Implementation expertise using AWS services - EMR , Redshift , Glue , Kinesis , Lambda, AWS Lake formation and Snowflake

* Security design and implementation on AWS & Snowflake

* Pipelines development in multi-hop pipeline architecture

* Architecture and Implementation experience with Spark and Snowflake performance tuning including topics such as cluster sizing.

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Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $[160,500 to 190,500] depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits: Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

* Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

* Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

* 401(k) plan and contributions

* Long-term/Short-term Disability

* Paid Parental Leave

* Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

Cognizant is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V. Cognizant is committed to ensuring that all current and prospective associates are afforded equal opportunities and treatment and a work environment free of harassment.

Cognizant is recognized as a Military Friendly Employer and is a coalition member of the Veteran Jobs Mission. Our Cognizant Veterans Network assists Veterans in building and growing a career at Cognizant that allows them to leverage the leadership, loyalty, integrity, and commitment to excellence instilled in them through participation in military service

Employee Status : Full Time Employee

Shift : Day Job

Travel : No

Job Posting : Jul 07 2023

About Cognizant

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