Remote Cloud Data Migration Lead: SAS to AWS/PySpark

Cognizant; Santa Fe (NM); Remoto; USD 100.000 - 117.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Descrizione del lavoro

Cognizant is seeking a Cloud Data Migration Lead to steer large-scale modernization initiatives, migrating SAS-based data platforms to AWS and PySpark. You will collaborate with architects, data engineers, business stakeholders, and global delivery teams to deliver scalable, secure data solutions.

In this role you will define migration strategies, establish data validation and governance frameworks, and provide technical leadership across ETL development, data modeling, and quality assurance.

Competenze

• 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.

Mansioni

• Lead the assessment, planning, and migration of legacy SAS programs, datasets, macros, and ETL workflows to AWS-based data platforms.
• Define migration strategies, standards, and best practices for converting SAS workloads into PySpark and AWS Glue solutions.
• Partner with data architects and engineering teams to design scalable cloud data lake and integration architectures.
• Establish data validation, reconciliation, and quality frameworks to ensure accuracy, compliance, and successful migration outcomes.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and governance to data engineers, ETL developers, architects, and QA teams throughout the migration lifecycle.

Conoscenze

Data warehousing

ETL development

Enterprise data integration

SAS

PySpark

AWS Glue

SQL

Data modeling

Data transformation

Data quality & governance

CI/CD & DevOps

Leadership & stakeholder mgmt

Communication skills

Strumenti

AWS S3

AWS Lambda

AWS IAM

CloudWatch

Amazon Athena

Amazon Redshift

Descrizione del lavoro

Cognizant is seeking a Cloud Data Migration Lead to steer large-scale modernization initiatives, migrating SAS-based data platforms to AWS and PySpark. You will collaborate with architects, data engineers, business stakeholders, and global delivery teams to deliver scalable, secure data solutions.

In this role you will define migration strategies, establish data validation and governance frameworks, and provide technical leadership across ETL development, data modeling, and quality assurance.