Senior Azure Business Analyst (Onsite)

Cognizant; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading AI solutions company is looking for a data analyst to work in a hybrid role in Toronto. The ideal candidate should have experience in Azure, Python, SQL, and data analysis. Responsibilities include building data quality checks and performing current state analysis. The position supports a flexible work-life balance and requires candidates to have legal authorization to work in Canada without sponsorship.

Qualifications

• Experience in data analysis and data warehousing.
• Ability to resolve issues timely and provide recommendations.
• Hands-on experience in agile environments.

Responsibilities

• Build data quality checks and write complex SQL queries.
• Conduct current state analysis and identify source systems.
• Capture data lineage and document user stories.

Skills

Azure (ingestion/extraction)

Python

ETL

SQL

Shell scripting

Pyspark

Data Lake/Azure Data Factory

Tableau/Power BI

Data Security Classifications

Data Mapping

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

We are Cognizant Artificial Intelligence:

Digital technologies, including analytics and AI, give companies a once-in-a-generation opportunity to perform orders of magnitude better than ever before. However, clients need new business models built from analyzing customers and business operations at every angle to really understand them. With the power to apply artificial intelligence and data science to business decisions via enterprise data management solutions, we help leading companies prototype, refine, validate, and scale the most desirable products and delivery models to enterprise scale within weeks.

Job Details

• Azure (ingestion/extraction), python, ETL, Unix, SQL, Shell scripting, pyspark, synapse, ADB, ADLS experience
• BA hands-on experience in data analysis/data warehouse/data integration through agile environment.
• Able to resolve issues in a timely manner, provide options and recommendations.
• Building data quality checks and writing complex SQL queries.
• Experience working with Jira, Confluence.
• Experience with Data Lake/ Azure Data Factory, python, SQL Server, Tableau/ Power BI.
• Good understanding of Data Security Classifications, metadata management principles
• Strong analytical, organizational, and technical skills to analyse, model and interpret data.
• Able to prioritize requirements, change requests for Business and work with Project team/Scrum Master in determining how best to address them.
• Current state analysis through reverse engineering, identify source & downstream systems.
• Experience with requirements development involving requirements elicitation, analysis, documenting user stories.
• Capturing Data Lineage and Data Mapping between Source and Target systems.

At Cognizant, we're eager to meet people who believe in our mission and can make an impact in various ways. We encourage you to apply if you have most of the skills above and feel like you are strongly suited for this role. Consider what transferrable experience and skills make you a unique applicant and help us see how you’d be beneficial to this role.

Cognizant will only consider applicants for this position who are legally authorized to work in Canada without requiring employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.

Working arrangements

We believe hybrid work is the way forward as we strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role’s business requirements, this is a hybrid position requiring 3 days a week in a client office in Toronto, ON. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance though our various wellbeing programs.

Note: The working arrangements for this role are accurate as of the date of posting. This may change based on the project you’re engaged in, as well as business and client requirements. Rest assured; we will always be clear about role expectations.