Description
Senior Data Consultant
Technology Modernization
Remote
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, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com .
Cognizant Consulting
Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise . With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise , program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value.We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we’re growing!
The Role:
A Technical Principal in Data TechMod Consulting at Cognizant wears many hats. You’re not only highly technical across a wider range of data technologies, practices, and disciplines, but you are also a driver of influence internally and within customers. You possess the ability to lead effectively, and you are able to come up with innovative ways of evolving the technical environments.
You will also provide technical guidance and lead the definition and development of data engineering, data analytics, and automation initiatives on a wide range of client projects. This includes an in-depth understanding of Data platforms, Cloud Data Engineering, tools and implementation of cloud data architecture to effectively capture, integrate, organize, centralize, and extract insights from data.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years’ experience in Data Engineering, preferably with prior Consulting experience.
- Proven leadership mentoring and coaching experience across various skill levels.
- Experience working in complex, Enterprise environments with good grasp of architecture design and hands-on delivery.
- Strong experience and deep understanding of building public cloud based (AWS, GCP, and/or Azure) data engineering solutions.
- Such as design and development experience with AWS, Azure and/or GCP Data Pipeline products and solutions.
- Experience in designing and /or implementing AWS, Azure and/or GCP Data Platforms including data monitoring and observability solutions.
Requirements:
- Experience implementing data policy management, data governance, data management desirable
- Cloud Native Operations ( e.g. kubernetes , lambda, etc.) desirable
- Experience in designing and implementing data solutions on AWS, GCP and/or Azure
- Understanding Artificial Intelligence , Gen AI and/or Machine Learning processes or experience with MLOps
- Strong data architecture, data warehousing, data integration and data manipulation experience
- Expert skills with Java, Python or at least one similar language
- Expert in at least one data visualization tools ( e.g. Tableau, QuickSight ) is preferred.
- Contribute assets/content to Co gnizant knowledgebase.
- Contribute to thought leadership within practices.
Work Authorization
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)
Salary and Other Compensation
The annual salary for this position is betw een $131,880 – $203,000 depend ing on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits
Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits 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.
Qualifications
Senior Data Consultant
Technology Modernization
Remote
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, is ranked 195 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com .
Cognizant Consulting
Within Cognizant is Cognizant Consulting, a global consulting organization delivering strategic and domain consulting through industry and technology expertise . With over 6,000 consultants worldwide, Cognizant offers high-value consulting services that improve business performance and operational productivity, lower operational expenses and enhance overall performance. Clients draw upon our deep industry expertise , program and change management capabilities, and analytical objectivity to help improve business productivity, drive technology-enabled business transformation and increase shareholder value.We provide a number of Business/IT Consulting Services including Business Strategy, IT Strategy & Roadmap Development, Process Re-Engineering & Transformation, Enterprise Architecture & Technology Selection, and Domain Solutions. The Cognizant Consulting team is a high performing organization that is continually expanding our client base and increasingly being recommended by analysts such as Forrester and Gartner. And we’re growing!
The Role:
Cognizant is changing the game in Data, DevOps, Cloud and Container based consultancy services. We enable enterprise organizations to capture value from their data, streamline their processes, reduce costs and increase efficiencies. We deploy teams to client sites (or remote through video conference) to help change mentalities and approaches by facilitating a DataOps culture through upskilling and pair programming.
We’ve built an outstanding team of technologists and are an advocate for challenging intelligent and hardworking individuals, like you! We are a team of fun, dedicated and professional people with a keen eye for innovation, curiosity and a love of data and technology.
We’re looking for Senior Data Consultants who can deliver within Cognizant’s Five Pillars of Consulting Excellence: 1) Project Execution, 2) Expertise, 3) Business Development, 4) Practice Development, and 5) People Development. As a Senior Consultant, this means partnering with clients and project stakeholders, colleagues creating high-quality client deliverables and taking ownership of producing client content and meeting client expectations; developing an expertise in your functional area, including obtaining certifications; contributing to Client Satisfaction and/or RFPs; supporting leadership and contributing to content development for service offerings; and participating in PeopleCare initiatives and exhibiting personal leadership at all times. In addition to enabling consulting excellence through the Five Pillars of Consulting, the specific requirements for this position are below.
Our solutions are in demand and we’re passionate about making a difference. If you have experience with the above, are a selfless leader, and are committed to client-facing environment; if you want to grow your career with a team that wants to build something great together, we want to hear from you! Apply now!
Responsibilities:
- Work to develop the best in class data/ DataOps processes for our clients.
- Provide the engineering expertise on the ground at client sites, or remotely to build solutions that allow for rapid access to data, providing speed an value to the business.
- Analyze, restructure, normalize and deliver data for analysis.
- Work with and lead a team of CloudOps , DevOps, and DevSecOps professionals to deliver Data Practice work as part of an integrated offering.
- Lead data engagements, manage a team of DevOps, DataOps professionals, and manage the delivery process.
- Actively develops appropriate client level relationships.
- Drive engagement business value.
- Support sales by providing Domain Expertise and participating in sales processes.
- Actively participate and provide QA for proposals and SOWs.
- Identify opportunities within existing account for extension or expansion.
- Contribute assets/content to Cognizant knowledgebase.
- Contribute to thought leadership within the Data Practice and other Practice areas.
- Collaborate with the Cognizant team to accelerate our practice maturity.
- Lead in the areas of new data technology and understanding.
Qualifications:
- Minimum 5 years experience with cloud computing (infrastructure, storage, platforms and data management).
- Experience in designing and implementing Cloud Data Platforms with tools such as CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, SNS and SQS.
- Experience with Snowflake: Engineering, data movement is a huge plus.
- Hands-on experience with next generation data architecture, data modeling, and implementation of Cloud and Big Data platforms & analytic applications.
- Understanding Data Science/Data Science processes.
- Strong data architecture, data integration and data manipulation experience.
- Expertise in Big Data platforms such as Hadoop or Spark is highly desirable.
- ETL experience.
- Skill with Java, Python, R or at least one similar language.
- Proficiency in at least one data visualization tool ( e.g. Tableau, QuickSight , Power BI) is preferred.
- Experience in a tech/lead capacity, with team management skill, and stakeholder management
Requirements:
- Contribute assets/content to Cognizant knowledgebase
- Contribute to thought leadership within the Data Practice and other Practice areas
- Collaborate with the Cognizant team to accelerate our practice maturity
- Lead in the areas of new data technology and understanding
Work Authorization
Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship (H-1B, L-1B, L-1A, etc.)
Salary and Other Compensation
The annual salary for this position is betw een$131,880 – $203,000 depend ing on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.
Benefits
Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:
- Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
- Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
- 401(k) plan and contributions
- Long-term/Short-term Disability
- Paid Parental Leave
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits 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.
Domain Skills
SNo
Primary Skill
Proficiency Level *
Rqrd./Dsrd.
1
NPD/NPI
NA
Required
* Proficiency Legends
Proficiency Level
Generic Reference
PL1
The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.
PL2
The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.
PL3
The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.
PL4
The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.