Technical Lead

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of 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. And this is your chance to be part of the success story: we are looking for an Azure Data Lead to join our Cognizant Digital Business - AI & Analytics Team.


About Cognizant Digital Business - AI & Analytics (CDB AIA)
We help organizations engage people and uncover insight from data to shape the products, services and experiences they offer. We work with the world’s leading organizations to provide collaborative solutions to their business and IT challenges with innovative ideas that are embraced by their customers.
Cognizant Digital Business (CDB) brings together strategy and execution capabilities to optimize software development for today’s business. Cognizant AI & Analytics (AIA) applies deep experience in data management, industry domain, human insight and integration to leverage data, AI and analytics to drive more relevant products, services and personalized experiences, improving productivity and accelerating client’s growth.
More information? Please visit https://be.cognizant.com/sites/cognizant-digital-business


About the role
As an Azure Data Lead, you will get an opportunity to –
Understand business & technical requirements, non-functional & security requirements
Design and implement Azure based data solutions in Datalake cloud environment involving Devops and agile ways of working

You will be the key senior member of the Azure Datalake team who will work closely with client Architects, product owners, Data engineers and Devops engineers.
This role expects you to be T-shaped professional who will be responsible for the whole life cycle (i.e. Design, Development & implementation) according to development/test standards and corporate architecture policies including security and data privacy guidelines.


Our ideal candidate
IT experience including Big Data and Azure covering – designing, building, testing and maintaining cloud applications & services in Datalake environment.
You have hands on experience working with Azure DataBricks and Azure Data factory.
Exposure to Azure Devops, Azure PowerShell and Azure CLI
Knowledge and experience working in Python, Spark, relational SQL and NoSQL databases, Azure Functions, Azure Machin Learning
Any exposure/experience in migration of on-prem big data datalake to Azure Cloud



What you can expect
Become part of a the ‘flag ship’ success story - We go through enormous growth!
Organization driven by technology – We have a tremendous technology backbone
Open, ‘can do’ team spirit and ability to work independently
Environment where you can make your own ideas reality & Drive your own career