Remote Cloud Data Migration Lead: SAS to PySpark

Cognizant; Madison (WI); Remote; USD 100,000 - 117,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays & PTO

401(k) plan

Disability insurance

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Cloud Data Migration Lead to drive large-scale modernization projects, migrating SAS-based data platforms to cloud-native AWS and PySpark solutions. You will lead data engineering teams, collaborate with global delivery groups, and define strategies for scalable, secure data architectures.

The role emphasizes leadership, governance, and hands-on migration of legacy workloads, with a flexible remote-ready setup across the United States.

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 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 and compliance during migration.
• Provide technical leadership, mentoring, and governance to data engineers, ETL developers, architects, and QA teams.

Skills

Data warehousing

ETL development

Enterprise data integration

SQL

Data modeling

Data transformation

CI/CD

DevOps

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Communication

Tools

SAS

PySpark

AWS Glue

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Cloud Data Migration Lead to drive large-scale modernization projects, migrating SAS-based data platforms to cloud-native AWS and PySpark solutions. You will lead data engineering teams, collaborate with global delivery groups, and define strategies for scalable, secure data architectures.

The role emphasizes leadership, governance, and hands-on migration of legacy workloads, with a flexible remote-ready setup across the United States.