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 proposal responses for data platforms and solutions on the 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 & Skills:
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 the 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.
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-systems 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
