Solution Architect
The Opportunity
As a Solution Architect within Cognizant, AIA, you will be responsible for bringing best Architecture and Technology consulting, innovation, thought leadership, cost savings measure for one of the largest Life Science customers in the industry. You will be directly engaging with customer to drive value and provide right consulting to help add value in each SDLC phases of the project.
About Cognizant
Cognizant is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 205 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company.
What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU - people with an ambitious spirit who want to make a difference in this world.
Cognizant's delivery model infused with a distinct culture of high customer happiness. We consistently deliver positive relationships, cost reductions, and business results.
About yourself
Working in international environments and teams comes natural to you? You understand complex and complicated situations quickly and you are able to address different topics to various audiences? You don’t lose sight of your goals and for yours and the success of your team you go above and beyond? Do you recognize setbacks and difficulties as opportunities of growth and your social competence enables you to understand your stakeholder's thoughts and motives? Are you passionate about the latest technologies and constantly keeping up to date with the newest trends?
Required & nice to have Skills
Must Haves:
· Competency on IDMC (Informatica), Snowflake, Azure Fabric, Power BI to design and executing POCs to demonstrate the feasibility and value of proposed solutions
· Having min. 3 years of Snowflake or Informatica or Microsoft Azure Services deep experience.
· Prior experience of a Pre-sales Solution Architect role acting as a technical advisor, creating full proposal response and deliver winning solutions for existing customers.
· Designing, developing, and presenting solutions for mini-RFPs that meet customer needs and align with customer business objectives.
· Strong skills in databases, medallion Architecture, Various Integration pattern and data processing and prior experience as lead Solution Architect for Data Migration program.
· Work hands-on with customers to demonstrate and communicate implementation best practices on Snowflake and IDMC technology.
· Proven track record of Snowflake or IDMC performance tuning and cost savings measures including understanding of FinOps.
· Design and build solutions using industry standard technologies and work with solution architects to ensure solutions align with technology direction. Lead by example, role-modeling best practices for testing, performance testing, sandboxing, capacity planning, monitoring, CI/CD, and innovation.
· Ability to understand moderately complex SQL statements and fine tune for best possible snowflake performance to cost ratio.
· Improve existing data pipelines in cloud for data transformation and aggregation.
· Ability to bring innovation and significant automation while keeping an eye on entire Program execution from solution standpoint.
Nice to Have/ Your chance to grow:
· Candidate to be Snow Pro or Informatica or Cloud Certified Architect ( Preferable Azure).
· Data modeling Skills (3NF, Data Vault & Dimensional)
· In depth understanding of Snowflake Architecture including, Performance tuning, Compute and Storage
· Having experience and understanding of architecting, designing and operationalization of large-scale data and analytics solutions.
· Recommending Best practices and solution in snowflake and IDMC.
· Experience in major Datalake technologies; Experience in processing large volume of data on cloud, Integrate it with Analytics layer - Databricks and Reporting services.
· Hands-on experience in DevOps technologies like GitLab and CICD allied technologies
· Familiarity with common BI and data exploration tools (e.g. Power BI )
· Well aware of Agile development methodology and principles
· French Language Skills & English
What you can expect
· An organization driven by technology – We have a tremendous technology backbone
· Open, ‘can do’ team spirit
· An environment where you can make your own ideas reality
· You will be able to work with a team provide best-in-class cloud solutions for the intelligent workplace, applied innovation, and managed services
· Drive your own career
· Market conform benefits
Our strength is built on our ability to work together. Our many backgrounds offer different perspectives and new ways of thinking. It encourages lively discussions, inspires thought leadership, and helps us build better solutions for our clients. We are looking for someone who drives in this setting and is inspired to craft significant solutions through true collaboration
The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.
- Cognizant is a global community with more than 300,000 associates around the world.
- We don’t just dream of a better way – we make it happen.
- We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what’s right.
- We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that’s right for you.
About us:
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2024) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com
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, state or local laws.
Disclaimer:
Compensation 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.
Applicants may be required to attend interviews in person or by video conference. In addition, candidates may be required to present their current state or government issued ID during each interview.