Senior Data Platform Architect - Life Sciences (Hybrid)

Cognizant; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant in Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid) seeks a Senior Data Platform & Architecture Lead to define and advance the data platform strategy, architecture standards, and engineering delivery. You will partner with data engineering, analytics, governance, security, and business stakeholders to ensure scalable, compliant, and trusted data solutions.

The role combines hands-on architecture with strategic leadership, vendor coordination, and delivery oversight in a life sciences context.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in data engineering, data architecture, enterprise architecture, or platform engineering.
• Strong hands-on Data Lake Architecture, Data Warehousing design experience.
• Strong Data Modeling and integration and Databricks.
• Experience leading complex data initiatives across multiple teams or domains.
• Hands on experience in Data Warehousing - Dimensional and analytical modeling, performance; Data Integration - ETL/ELT, APIs, events, file-based patterns, orchestration; Security and compliance - Privacy, access control, auditability; API Architecture - reusable services; Metadata management - metadata, discoverability, lineage; SQL - essential for design review; IIoT Data Integration; Proficiency in Java, Python, Spark, MLOps platforms, Model Serving and Deployment; Data Governance.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver enterprise data warehouse solutions within a life science industry.
• Analyse source data, data flows, and business requirements
• Work closely with business stakeholders, engineers, testers, and architects
• Produce HLDs, Architecture Design Decisions, and governance documentation
• Embed data governance, lineage, auditability, and regulatory controls into solution design

Skills

Data engineering

Data architecture

Enterprise architecture

Platform engineering

Data modeling

SQL

API architecture

IIoT data integration

Java

Python

Spark

Databricks

Data governance

Regulatory compliance

Model serving and deployment

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Cognizant in Dublin, Ireland (Hybrid) seeks a Senior Data Platform & Architecture Lead to define and advance the data platform strategy, architecture standards, and engineering delivery. You will partner with data engineering, analytics, governance, security, and business stakeholders to ensure scalable, compliant, and trusted data solutions.

The role combines hands-on architecture with strategic leadership, vendor coordination, and delivery oversight in a life sciences context.