Hybrid Snowflake Architect — Lead Data Platform

Cognizant; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Snowflake Architect for a hybrid Dallas, TX role. You will design and optimize enterprise data platforms using Snowflake Cortex, Snowflake SQL, and Snowpipe to deliver secure, scalable analytics for global stakeholders.

The role emphasizes governance, performance tuning, and guiding ingestion pipelines, with mentoring of senior engineers and collaboration with product managers to translate business needs into architectural roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing enterprise data architectures with Snowflake Cortex

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end cloud data platform architectures optimized for Snowflake Cortex capabilities
• Define scalable data models and schemas using Snowflake SQL for reporting and analytics
• Provide guidance on secure ingestion pipelines using Snowpipe for near real-time data
• Drive standardization of data engineering patterns and reusable components
• Coordinate with security teams and stakeholders to align with roadmaps and policy
• Guide performance optimization for large Snowflake workloads
• Shape data integration strategy for batch and streaming ingestion
• Evaluate new Snowflake Cortex features and establish adoption guidelines
• Influence data governance standards for lineage, access, retention and audit readiness
• Collaborate with product managers to translate business initiatives into Snowflake roadmaps
• Mentor senior engineers and promote disciplined design practices
• Coordinate architecture reviews across programs for best practices

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Snowflake Architect for a hybrid Dallas, TX role. You will design and optimize enterprise data platforms using Snowflake Cortex, Snowflake SQL, and Snowpipe to deliver secure, scalable analytics for global stakeholders.

The role emphasizes governance, performance tuning, and guiding ingestion pipelines, with mentoring of senior engineers and collaboration with product managers to translate business needs into architectural roadmaps.