What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and a unique place international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.
At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story.
Position Summary:
We are looking for a Migration Lead / Cloud Architect with strong experience in enterprise data migration and cloud transformation. The role will translate business requirements into scalable technical architectures covering migration strategy, ETL/ELT, integrations, and modern data platforms such as Data Lakes and Data Warehouses. It will also use Generative AI and automation to accelerate design, improve productivity, and build reusable engineering frameworks while ensuring security, governance, performance, and delivery quality.
• 14+ years of experience in SQL, T-SQL, and data engineering
• Strong expertise in Azure, SQL Server, SSIS, Databricks, ADF, ADLS, and Snowflake
• Experience in data migration, profiling, cleansing, and migration assessments
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, warehousing, and reporting with Power BI
• Experience with CI/CD, Git, Azure DevOps, and metadata-driven automation
• Exposure to Generative AI for code generation, documentation, mapping, and analysis
• Strong stakeholder management, leadership, mentoring, and delivery skills
Mandatory Skills:
•Data migration and cloud transformation using Azure/Snowflake
•Azure data services, SQL Server, and MSBI stack
•Data warehousing, modeling, profiling, and quality assessment
•Python, T-SQL, Spark, CI/CD, Azure DevOps, and Git
•Power BI, stakeholder management, leadership, and Generative AI automation
Duties and Responsibilities:
•Lead architecture and delivery of large-scale data migration programs to cloud platforms.
•Define migration strategy, automation frameworks, and AI-assisted delivery approaches.
•Design ETL/ELT pipelines, integrations, and scalable data platforms.
•Drive data quality, reconciliation, governance, monitoring, and performance tuning.
•Use Generative AI to accelerate design, documentation, code generation, and reporting.
•Implement CI/CD and DevOps practices for reliable delivery.
•Collaborate with stakeholders and mentor teams across design, build, test, deployment, and support.
Qualifications & Certifications (Optional):
•Microsoft Azure Certifications
•Power BI / Fabric / Databricks certifications preferred
Salary Range: >$100,000
Date of Posting: 17-Jun-26
Next Steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.
For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit http://www.cognizant.com/careers. Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check.
What we offer
- The chance to work with impact. Here, you’re empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
- Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
- The opportunity to thrive on a high caliber team with heart. We celebrate each other’s experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and a pension plan with matching contributions.
- Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependents—from day one.
- True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.
About us
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
Other employment-related information
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
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Language requirements vary depending on roles, but we ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
