What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating many opportunities for people like YOU people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world''s leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative, and successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story.Position SummaryJoin Cognizant as a Big Data Solution Architect; collaborate with our experienced Engineering teams on exciting client projects where you will be able to lead and guide the project team to deliver values to business. You will be providing end-to-end solutions, design projects and also provide technical support to current and other teams as and when necessary.Mandatory SkillsPrimary Skills:Hadoop 2+ - ExpertApache Spark - ExpertSpark Structure Streaming - ExpertKafka - ExpertNifi - ExpertApache Flink -AdvancedAirflow - AdvancedSqoop - ExpertApache Atlas - ExpertApache Ranger - AdvancedApache Kudu - AdvancedApache Drools AdvancedPython ExpertScala ExpertShell Script ExpertAzure Data Factory - AdvancedAzure Data Lake - AdvancedAzure Data Bricks - AdvancedAzure CLI AdvancedAzure Key Vault -AdvancedAzure Devops -AdvancedAWS EMR - AdvancedAWS EC2 -AdvancedAWS Lambda -AdvancedAWS kinesis AdvancedAWS Redshift -AdvancedDatabase and Other skills:HBase - ExpertCassandra - ExpertHive - ExpertArangoDB - AdvancedSqlServer ExpertOracle ExpertNLP AdvancedMachine Learning / Data science - BasicData Visualization ExpertTools:IntelliJ / Eclipse/ Pycharm - ExpertMS Project ExpertControlM - ExpertProject Management tools (JIRA, ServiceNOW etc. ) - AdvancedRoles And ResponsibilitiesProject Management:Requirement Analysis & Solution DesignEffort/operational estimations for new projects, migrations, upgrade and development strategies and resource planningValidate the business scope with customerSchedule kick-off meetings, architectural design sessions, cloud program review & assessmentConvert business knowledge into technical knowledge and vice versa and able to translate those insights into effective frontline action and finalizing the implementation planCreation of High-Level Design & Low-Level Design document for target technologyDevised Baselines, budgeting, risk measures & mitigation enhanced customer experience that increased avenues to increase project revenues.Resource management (recruitment & training), performance evaluation, rewarding, guide the team through transformational objectives set out by the businessDevelop Communication plan, monitor progress, measure and improve key aspects of project and service operations to ensure not only the service commitments are met, or exceeded, but to improve efficiencies in delivery, thereby reducing project overagesProcess improvements like application scalability, build to release process refinement, formation of governance and audit policiesDrive end-to-end solutions for both Big Data Batch and Streaming pipelines.Sprint Delivery Management:Participate daily stand-up, iteration planning, sprint review, and iteration retrospectiveInvolving the engineering development projects and facilitates sprint releasesCreate or analyze business requirements documents and project timelinesEngage in communicates with management and stakeholders, protects the team.Manage project conflicts, challenges and dynamic business requirements to keep operations running at a high performanceWork with the team to resolve project roadblocksProactively identify and eliminate impediments and facilitate flowExperience in project management software (i.e. JIRA, Manuscript, etc.) to support task estimates and executionManage other special projects as assignedTeam ManagementManaging large and diverse teams from the steps of onboarding during project inception to project closure.Coordinate internal resources and third parties/vendors for the flawless execution of projectsAddress conflict within or outside the team influencing project health and take necessary mitigation actions.Delegate project tasks based on staff members'' individual strengths, skill sets and experience levelsStakeholder Management:Report and escalate to management as neededManage the relationship with the client and all stakeholdersEstablish and maintain relationships with third parties/vendorsMeet with clients to take detailed ordering briefs and clarify specific requirements of each projectTechnical Contribution:Strong experience of Real Time Steaming using Kafka, Spark/ Airflow/ Nifi, Big Data and Cloud Computing (Azure)Design & develop generic ingestion and streaming frameworks which can be used and leveraged by new initiatives/projects.Design & develop real-time ingestion pipeline using Spark Structure Streaming, Kafka, Nifi and backend as HBase / MongoDB.Develop big data batch/streaming pipelines using the programming languages like Scala, Python.Design & develop Graph data structure using latest graph databases (ArangoDB / Neo4J)Extensive hands on in template-oriented data validation / cleansing framework.Design & develop streaming services/jobs which use the Rules-Engine (Apache Drool / in house) concept that drives business rules without manual intervention.Develop or provide solutions for performance improvements in both batch and streaming applications.Good to have the knowledge on Natural Language Processing Techniques and some of the ML algorithms.Should have knowledge on data governance tools like Waterline.Should have knowledge in DevOps tools like Jenkins, Docker / KubernetesStrong knowledge in Data analysis, Natural language processing (NLP), machine learning techniques, Data visualization.Should have knowledge in the job scheduling tools like Control M.Strong experience in estimations that includes operational costs, resources, governance costs etc.Extensive experience in cloud platforms like Azure, AWS.Knowledge Management:Create/Update Knowledge Repository /artifacts based on project/customer needs inclusive of business/ application levels requirements.Knowledge Transition:Understand and analyze business requirements based on the review of documents (functional specifications document, technical specification documents etc.) as received from client / onsite.Participate in KT calls to understand the requirements.Conduct reverse KT with the client / onsite or share the understanding document detailing out the requirement or application/domain knowledge to ensure understanding on the same.Prepare and share query log (tracker) to track queries.Follow-up to ensure resolution of queries as documented in the query log.Seek signoff from the client.Salary Range: >$100,000Date of Posting: 07/02/2025Next Steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check. #J-18808-Ljbffr
Job Title
Big Data Solution Architect