Senior Data Quality & Governance Engineer—Snowflake

Cognizant; Richmond (VA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 152,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a hands-on Senior Developer focused on Data Quality, Data Governance, metadata management, and data lineage. You will drive AI-assisted lineage discovery, metadata enrichment, and catalog management across enterprise data platforms from Richmond, VA, collaborating with data engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to raise data trust.

Responsibilities include designing quality rules, building governance capabilities, and integrating DQ/DG tools with Snowflake,

Qualifications

• 10 years of experience in Data Quality or Data Governance, Metadata Management or MDM.
• Hands-on experience with a DQ platform (DQ Labs, Ataccama, Informatica DQ, Bigeye, Monte Carlo, Soda).
• Experience with Data Catalog and Lineage tools (Purview, Collibra, Alation, Informatica EDC).
• Experience leveraging AI/GenAI for metadata management, lineage generation and DQ rule creation.
• Proficient in SQL and Python.
• Experience with cloud data platforms (ADF, Databricks, Snowflake, Azure).
• Understanding of data governance frameworks, data stewardship, glossary and data quality dimensions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop and implement data quality rules, profiling, monitoring and scorecards across enterprise data platforms.
• Build and maintain data governance capabilities including business glossary, metadata management, data catalog and lineage.
• Leverage AI/GenAI solutions to automate lineage discovery and impact analysis.
• Generate and recommend data quality rules; enrich metadata and business definitions.
• Improve catalog search and data asset discovery.
• Develop integrations between DQ/DG tools and platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, SQL databases, cloud storage).
• Support MDM initiatives including data stewardship and golden record management using tools such as Reltio.
• Collaborate with data engineers, architects and business stakeholders to implement governance and quality standards.
• Analyze data issues, perform root cause analysis and implement preventive controls.
• Develop automation scripts and reusable frameworks to improve governance and quality processes.

Skills

Data Quality

Data Governance

Metadata Management

SQL

Python

AI/GenAI

Data Catalog

Data Lineage

Cloud Platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Engineering

Tools

DQ Labs

Ataccama

Informatica DQ

Bigeye

Monte Carlo

Soda

Microsoft Purview

Collibra

Alation

Informatica EDC

Reltio MDM

Job description

Cognizant is seeking a hands-on Senior Developer focused on Data Quality, Data Governance, metadata management, and data lineage. You will drive AI-assisted lineage discovery, metadata enrichment, and catalog management across enterprise data platforms from Richmond, VA, collaborating with data engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to raise data trust.

Responsibilities include designing quality rules, building governance capabilities, and integrating DQ/DG tools with Snowflake,