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Role Summary: Solutioning lead for Data Engineering - AWS and Snowflake as primary stack

Role Responsibilities:

• Architecture and Solutioning on AWS and Snowflake platforms - - data warehouse, 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 AWS & Snowflake 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 AWS and Snowflake

• 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 solution s

• 1520 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 – AWS & Snowflake

• 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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