Cloud Data Migration Lead: SAS to AWS/PySpark Champion

Cognizant; Montpelier (VT); Remote; USD 100,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays & PTO

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is hiring a Cloud Data Migration Lead to drive large-scale data modernization, migrating SAS-based platforms to cloud-native AWS and PySpark solutions. You will work with architects, data engineers, stakeholders, and global delivery teams to deliver scalable, secure data solutions.

You will lead assessments, define migration strategies, design cloud data lake architectures, and establish data quality frameworks to ensure accuracy and compliance.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in data warehousing, ETL development, and enterprise data integration.
• Strong hands-on experience with SAS, PySpark, and AWS Glue.
• Proven experience leading cloud data migration and modernization programs.
• Strong expertise with AWS services including S3, Glue, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch, and Athena.
• Advanced SQL, data modeling, and data transformation skills.
• Experience implementing data quality, reconciliation, governance, and migration frameworks.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical teams and collaborate with business and technology stakeholders.
• Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead the assessment, planning, and migration of legacy SAS programs and ETL workflows to AWS-based data platforms.
• Define migration strategies, standards, and best practices for SAS to PySpark conversions.
• Partner with data architects to design scalable cloud data lake and integration architectures.
• Establish data validation, reconciliation, and quality frameworks for migration success and compliance.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and governance to data engineers and QA teams throughout the migration lifecycle.

Skills

Data warehousing

ETL development

SAS

PySpark

AWS Glue

SQL

Cloud architectures

Stakeholder management

DevOps

Leadership

Tools

AWS S3

AWS Lambda

AWS IAM

Athena

Glue

Job description

Cognizant is hiring a Cloud Data Migration Lead to drive large-scale data modernization, migrating SAS-based platforms to cloud-native AWS and PySpark solutions. You will work with architects, data engineers, stakeholders, and global delivery teams to deliver scalable, secure data solutions.

You will lead assessments, define migration strategies, design cloud data lake architectures, and establish data quality frameworks to ensure accuracy and compliance.