Cloud Data Solution architect

Cloud Data Solution Architect

The successful candidate will be responsible for leading the practice’s ambitious growth initiative with our most strategic cloud partners. This opportunity is scoped for high performing, high potential subject matter experts who are self-directed, entrepreneurial, highly collaborative, organized, diligent, and thoughtful. This role requires a domain expertise combined with the ability to task-organize, focus on the details, and sustain and drive progress over time.

For the right candidate, this role offers an opportunity to contribute to rapid revenue growth in one of the most exciting and dynamic segments of the market. This is an ideal opportunity for technologists seeking cross vertical and/or cross industry expertise. Among other career-enhancing considerations, this role provides opportunities to directly and indirectly manage teams.

The entire AIA leadership team is personally committed to the success of the architects on-boarded through this focused cloud hiring initiative.

Responsibilities

• Lead joint solution/offering architecture discussions with partner architects/stakeholders and support development
• Craft and manage solution architecture and proposal defense for reactive and proactive proposals responses for data platforms and solutions on cloud
• Drive turnkey proposals for data platforms, analytics, built cost summaries, value propositions as part of cloud modernization, data portfolio rationalization
• Provide leadership for the transformation of customer requirements into visions, strategies, and roadmaps to implement data platforms, multi-cloud , cloud data warehouse
• Independently lead client design workshops and provide tradeoffs and recommendations
• Contribute to the Cognizant Data community by developing assets, thought leadership, etc.

Requirements

• Certified Solution Architect on one of the clouds
• Aware of PaaS services relating to Data, Analytics and end-point API interfaces - EMR/Dataproc/Databricks etc.
• Able to compare and contrast between best of technologies by layer – e.g, stream processing, messaging, search, etc.
• High-level awareness of other partner technologies, which are alternative to native services like Snowflake, Cloudera, Talend, Informatica, Confluent, etc.

What You Will Bring to the Team

• Excellent consulting, communication, influencing and facilitation skills, in particular problem solving/troubleshooting activities.
• Lead key data architecture decisions, design of architectural roadmaps, database, data access and data technology architectures
• Provide expertise on the overall data eco-system’s engineering best practices, standards, architectural approaches, and complex technical resolutions
• Holistic knowledge of solution architecture, including: data layers and purpose, serverless compute, processing run time – ETL vs Spark run time, etc., security controls around authentication, authorizations, encryption and certificates, recommend the migration tools and design data migration strategy, metadata and data catalogs.
• Excellent communication skills, preparing PowerPoint presentations, executive readouts

Key Experience

Successfully built and defended solution architecture with different levels of technical stakeholders – Business heads, enterprise architects, tech leads, etc.

What We Offer

• A competitive salary based on your qualities and experience.
• Flexible hybrid work model.
• Access to Udemy, Cognizant Academy digital libraries for your continuous learning.
• NS business card to cover your commute expenses.
• 25 days of paid holiday per year.
• A laptop and a smartphone.
• A pension schemes.
• The opportunity to take on responsibility and actively shape growth in an international, dynamic company.
• Demanding and varied customer projects with one of the world's largest and most successful IT service providers
• A visionary and motivating team in which a sense of responsibility, integrity and transparency are lived.
• An ultra-modern and employee-oriented working environment with exciting development prospects and an extensive range of further training courses offered by an internal academy.

Diversity and Inclusion at Cognizant

At Cognizant, we believe diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our ability to execute successfully and consistently over the long term. We recognize that our people are our most important asset. We strive to create an environment where all associates feel comfortable to be themselves, feel accepted and can therefore thrive both personally and professionally. We continue to drive D&I throughout our organization to unlock the insights, imagination and innovation of our associates, as well as reflect the diversity of our clients and communities. We are a Dutch and European Top Employer and continually drive employment recognition and engagement through employee friendly policies and affinity groups such as “Women Empowered”, “Embrace LGBTQ+” and “Race Equality Network”. For more information, see https://careers.cognizant.com/global/en/diversity-and-inclusion?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=Moongro&utm_campaign=Moongro

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