Senior Snowflake Architect & DBT Expert | Data Cloud

Cognizant; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 160,000; 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 an experienced Snowflake Architect/DBT to design and optimize scalable data solutions on the Snowflake Data Cloud. The role emphasizes data warehousing, ELT/ETL pipelines, and governance to translate requirements into robust analytics.

Responsibilities include modeling, pipeline design, RBAC, security, and performance tuning, with collaboration across data engineers and BI teams. Visa transfer not offered. Salary ranges from $90k to $160k depending on experience.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in Snowflake architecture and administration.
• Must have DBT experience and strong SQL skills.
• Experience with cloud platforms: AWS, Azure or GCP.
• Proficient in ELT/ETL tools and data modeling techniques.
• Knowledge of data governance, security, and compliance.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines in data environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect end-to-end data solutions leveraging Snowflake, ensuring scalability, performance, and security.
• Define and implement data models (dimensional & normalized) optimized for analytics and reporting.
• Build and optimize data ingestion and transformation pipelines using tools such as Snowpipe, dbt, Informatica, or similar.
• Lead Snowflake platform setup, including account structure, RBAC, security & governance.

Skills

Snowflake

DBT

SQL

ETL/ELT

Data Modeling

Data Governance

CI/CD

DevOps in Data

Cloud Platforms

Tools

Informatica

Talend

Matillion

Azure Data Factory

Job description

Cognizant is seeking an experienced Snowflake Architect/DBT to design and optimize scalable data solutions on the Snowflake Data Cloud. The role emphasizes data warehousing, ELT/ETL pipelines, and governance to translate requirements into robust analytics.

Responsibilities include modeling, pipeline design, RBAC, security, and performance tuning, with collaboration across data engineers and BI teams. Visa transfer not offered. Salary ranges from $90k to $160k depending on experience.