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.
Über Cognizant
Cognizant (NASDAQ: CTSH) i ist ein Technologiedienstleister und Entwickler von KI-Lösungen. Wir schlagen die Brücke zwischen KI-Investitionen und echtem unternehmerischem Mehrwert, indem wir ganzheitliche Full-Stack-KI-Lösungen für unsere Kunden entwickeln. Mit unserer fundierten Branchen-, Prozess- und Engineering-Expertise integrieren wir die spezifischen Anforderungen von Unternehmen passgenau in Technologiesysteme. So entfalten wir das menschliche Potenzial, erzielen greifbare Ergebnisse und sichern globalen Unternehmen in einer sich rasant wandelnden Welt den entscheidenden Vorsprung. Erfahren Sie mehr unter cognizant.ai oder @cognizant.
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