Remote Senior Data Modeler for Event-Driven Data

Cognizant; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus PTO

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Data Modeler in the United States to design and evolve enterprise data models for event-driven architectures, real-time data products, and scalable business capabilities. You will collaborate with domain experts, architects, engineers, governance teams, and business stakeholders to deliver trusted data assets across the organization.

You will define durable event contracts via Domain-Driven Design, develop conceptual and logical models, and ensure data governance

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing data models for event-driven architectures, including business events, event schemas, versioning, ordering, correlation, and idempotency.
• Strong expertise applying Domain-Driven Design concepts to create scalable and reusable data and event contracts.
• Experience developing conceptual, logical, and enterprise data models across complex business domains.
• Hands‑on experience with relational and NoSQL data modeling, including historical, temporal, document, key-value, and search‑oriented data structures.
• Knowledge of event-streaming platforms, schema registries, change data capture (CDC), and real‑time data consumption patterns.
• Experience designing analytical and lakehouse data models and translating operational event data into reporting and analytics structures.
• Ability to model and align domain representations across events, APIs, transactional systems, analytical platforms, and search technologies.
• Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, lineage, data quality, and contract versioning practices.
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with business stakeholders, architects, engineers, and governance teams in large enterprise environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain enterprise, domain, event, and consumption models that support real-time business processes and data products.
• Define durable event and data contracts using Domain-Driven Design (DDD) principles, including bounded contexts, aggregates, and domain events.
• Develop conceptual and logical data models that establish consistent business definitions and align data across diverse source systems.
• Partner with engineering and architecture teams to support event-streaming platforms, schema management, state reconstruction, and cross-platform data integration.
• Ensure data quality, governance, lineage, semantic ownership, and lifecycle management standards are embedded throughout the modeling process.

Skills

Event-driven modeling

Domain-Driven Design

Data modeling (conceptual/logical)

Relational & NoSQL modeling

Event-streaming platforms

Schema registries / CDC

Data governance & metadata

Stakeholder collaboration

Tools

AWS

Apache Iceberg

Aurora PostgreSQL

OpenSearch

Elasticsearch

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a Senior Data Modeler in the United States to design and evolve enterprise data models for event-driven architectures, real-time data products, and scalable business capabilities. You will collaborate with domain experts, architects, engineers, governance teams, and business stakeholders to deliver trusted data assets across the organization.

You will define durable event contracts via Domain-Driven Design, develop conceptual and logical models, and ensure data governance