Snowflake Architect

Cognizant; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant is seeking a Snowflake Architect for a hybrid Dallas, TX role. You will design and optimize enterprise data platforms using Snowflake Cortex, Snowflake SQL, and Snowpipe to deliver secure, scalable analytics for global stakeholders.

The role emphasizes governance, performance tuning, and guiding ingestion pipelines, with mentoring of senior engineers and collaboration with product managers to translate business needs into architectural roadmaps.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing enterprise data architectures with Snowflake Cortex

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end cloud data platform architectures optimized for Snowflake Cortex capabilities
• Define scalable data models and schemas using Snowflake SQL for reporting and analytics
• Provide guidance on secure ingestion pipelines using Snowpipe for near real-time data
• Drive standardization of data engineering patterns and reusable components
• Coordinate with security teams and stakeholders to align with roadmaps and policy
• Guide performance optimization for large Snowflake workloads
• Shape data integration strategy for batch and streaming ingestion
• Evaluate new Snowflake Cortex features and establish adoption guidelines
• Influence data governance standards for lineage, access, retention and audit readiness
• Collaborate with product managers to translate business initiatives into Snowflake roadmaps
• Mentor senior engineers and promote disciplined design practices
• Coordinate architecture reviews across programs for best practices

Job description

• No Visa Transfer/ sponsorship/ C2C available for this opportunity**

• No Visa Transfer/ sponsorship/ C2C available for this opportunity**

Job Title- Snowflake Architect

Location- Hybrid @Dallas, TX

Must have- 18+ years of total work experience to be considered

Job Summary

Principal Architect role in a hybrid work model focusing on advanced data platform design and optimization using Snowflake Cortex Snowflake SQL and Snowpipe driving secure scalable analytics solutions for global stakeholders ensuring robust data governance and enabling impactful insights that support enterprise decision making in a day shift schedule with no travel required

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of end to end cloud data platform architectures optimized for Snowflake Cortex capabilities to support complex analytics workloads and high performance data processing for global business functions
• Oversee the definition of scalable data models and schemas using Snowflake SQL to enable consistent reporting self service analytics and advanced data science while maintaining strong data governance and quality
• Provide architectural guidance on secure and efficient ingestion pipelines using Snowpipe to ensure near real time data availability for critical business processes and regulatory reporting
• Drive standardization of data engineering patterns on Snowflake by defining architecture blueprints reference implementations and reusable components that improve delivery speed and reliability across teams
• Coordinate closely with enterprise architects security teams and business stakeholders to align Snowflake based solutions with long term technology roadmaps compliance requirements and strategic priorities
• Guide performance optimization efforts for large scale Snowflake workloads including query tuning resource configuration and storage strategies to control cost while improving responsiveness
• Shape the overall data integration strategy by recommending best practices for batch and streaming ingestion into Snowflake ensuring resilience observability and proactive incident prevention
• Direct evaluation of new Snowflake Cortex features and related ecosystem tools to determine applicability create adoption guidelines and design pilot implementations that prove business value
• Influence data governance frameworks by defining standards for data lineage access policies retention rules and audit readiness within the Snowflake environment to protect sensitive information
• Collaborate with product managers and analytics leaders to translate business initiatives into Snowflake architecture roadmaps ensuring that data solutions enable measurable outcomes for customers and society
• Mentor senior engineers and data architects by reviewing solution designs providing architectural feedback and promoting disciplined design practices that reduce technical debt and operational risk
• Coordinate architecture reviews across programs ensuring consistent application of Snowflake best practices integration patterns and reliability principles across hybrid working teams
• Guide incident and problem management related to Snowflake platforms by advising on root cause analysis architectural remediations and preventive controls to strengthen long term stability

Qualifications

• Possess extensive experience designing enterprise data architectures leveraging Snowflake Cortex capabilities for advanced analytics and machine learning in complex multinational environments
• Demonstrate deep proficiency in Snowflake SQL including query design optimization data modeling and implementation of secure role based access structures for large scale data platforms
• Bring strong hands on background with Snowpipe configuration and operation covering automated ingestion patterns error handling monitoring and alignment to data latency requirements
• Show proven track record of delivering hybrid data solutions that span cloud and on premises systems with robust integration patterns and clear segregation of responsibilities across components
• Apply solid understanding of data governance privacy and compliance practices to Snowflake designs ensuring alignment with corporate policies and regional regulatory obligations
• Exhibit experience collaborating with cross functional stakeholders including engineering operations security and business teams to convert strategic goals into actionable architecture decisions
• Demonstrate capability to mentor senior technical professionals by sharing architectural principles promoting continuous improvement and fostering a culture of high accountability in solution delivery

Salary And Other Compensation

The annual salary for this position is $170K+ depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits

• 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

Disclaimer: The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time