Cloud Data Architect - Azure Databricks

Skill Cloud Data Architect - Azure Databricks

Role Solution Architect

Solutioning lead for NA Data Engineering - Azure and Databicks as primary stack

Roles and responsibilities

1) Architecture and Solutioning on Azure, databricks data platforms , expertise on architecture patterns - data warehosue, lakehouse, data fabric and datamesh

2) Sizing , Estimation and Implementation plan for solutioning

3) Solution Prototyping, Advisory and orchestrating in-person/remote workshops

4) Work with hyperscalers and platform vendors to understand and test platform roadmaps and develop joint solutions

5) Own end-to-end solutions working across various teams in Cognizant - Sales, Delivery and Global solutioning

6) Own key accounts as Architecture advisory and establish deep client relationships

7) Contribute to practice by developing reusable assets and solutions

Required Skills

1. Excellent verbal and written communication skills with ability to present complex Cloud Data Architecture solutions concepts to technical and executive audience (leveraging PPTs, Demos and Whiteboard)

2. Deep expertise in designing Azure and Databricks

3. Strong expertise in handling large and complex RFPs/RFIs and collaborating with multiple service lines & platform vendors in a fast-paced environment

4. Strong relationship building skills and ability to provide technical advisory and guidance

5. Minimum 15 years experience as Solution Architect designing and developing data architecture patterns

6. Minimum 5-year hands-on experience in building Databricks based solutions

7. Minimum 3 years experience as Solution Architect in pre-sales team driving the sales process from a technical solution standpoint

8. Bachelor s or Master s degree in computer science, engineering, information systems or a related field

1. Technology architecture & implementation experience with deep implementation experience with Data solutions

15~20 years of experience in Data Engineering and 5+ Years Data Engineering Experience on cloud data engineering

Technology pre sales experience Architecture, Effort sizing , Estimation and Solution defense

Data architecture patterns Data Warehouse , Data Lake , Data Mesh , Lake house , Data as a product

Develop or Co-develop proofs of concept and prototypes with customer teams

Excellent understanding of distributed computing fundamentals

2. Experience working with one or more major cloud vendors

Deep expertise on End to End Pipeline ( or ETL) development following best practices and including orchestration, Optimization of Data pipelines

Strong understanding of the full CI/CD lifecycle

Large legacy migration ( Hadoop , Terdata like) experience to Cloud Data platforms

Expert level proficiency in engineering & optimizing with various data engineering ingestion patterns - Batch, Micro Batch, Streaming and API

Understand imperatives of change data capture with tools & best practices POV

Architect and Solution Data Governance capability pillars supporting modern data eco system

Data services and various consumption archetypes including semantic layers, BI tools and AI&ML

Thought leadership designing self-service data engineering platforms & solutions

3. Core Platform Databricks

Ability to engage and offer differing points of view to customers architecture using Databricks platform

Strong understanding of the Lake house Architecture

Implementation expertise using Delta Lake

Security design and implementation on Databricks

Scala or pipelines development in multi-hop pipeline architecture

Architecture and Implementation experience with Spark and Delta Lake performance tuning including topics such as cluster sizing

Gen-AI architecture patterns

Data Quality and Data Governance

Cloud Cost Monitoring and Optimization

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