AdresWhat 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 Associate Director - Data & Analytics Solutioning to join our Artificial Intelligence & Analytics Team.
Your Team:
We help our customers leverage Artificial Intelligence and analytics in building technology solutions to improve the quality of human life. We are the market leaders in the data and analytic space with 22,000+ information & data management, AI and analytics professional helping more than 650+ customers across the globe to build and run intelligent businesses, using an AI-first, human-centric, platform driven and design thinking approach
For more information? Please visit https://www.cognizant.com/ai
Your role:
You will be responsible for leading the practice’s ambitious growth initiative with our most strategic cloud partners. This opportunity is scoped for high performing, high potential subject matter experts who are self-directed, entrepreneurial, highly collaborative, organized, diligent, and thoughtful. This role requires a domain expertise combined with the ability to task-organize, focus on the details, and sustain and drive progress over time.
This role offers an opportunity to contribute to rapid revenue growth in one of the most exciting and dynamic segments of the market. This is an ideal opportunity for technologists seeking cross vertical and/or cross industry expertise. Among other career-enhancing considerations, this role provides opportunities to directly and indirectly manage teams.
Responsibilities:
• Lead joint solution/offering architecture discussions with partner architects/stakeholders and support development.
o RFPs: Manage the solution architecture and proposal defense for reactive and proactive proposals responses for data platforms and solutions on cloud.
o Turnkey Proposals: Drive turnkey proposals for data platforms, analytics, built cost summaries, value propositions as part of cloud modernization, data portfolio rationalization.
• Provide leadership for the transformation of customer requirements into visions, strategies, and roadmaps to implement data platforms, multi-cloud , cloud data warehouse
• Independently lead client design workshops and provide tradeoffs and recommendations. Contribute to the Cognizant cloud community by developing assets, thought leadership, etc.
What you will bring to the team:
• Certified Solution Architect on one of the clouds
• Aware of PaaS services relating to Data, Analytics and end-point API interfaces –EMR/Dataproc/Databricks etc.
• Able to compare and contrast between best of technologies by layer – e.g, stream processing, messaging, search, etc.
• High-level awareness of other partner technologies, which are alternative to native services like Snowflake, Cloudera, Talend, Informatica, Confluent, etc.
• Holistic knowledge of solution architecture, including:
• Data layers and purpose
• Serverless compute
• Processing run time – ETL vs Spark run time, etc.
• Security controls around authentication, authorizations, encryption and certificates
• Metadata and data catalogs
• Ability to compare and contrast across technologies in any layer objectively with evaluation criteria and considerations.
• Excellent communication skills, preparing PowerPoint presentations, executive readouts.
• Successfully built and defended solution architecture with different levels of technical stakeholders – enterprise architects, tech leads, etc.
What we offer:
• A competitive salary based on your experience
• Access to Udemy and Cognizant Academy digital libraries for your continuous learning
• 25 days of paid holiday per year
• A laptop and a smartphone
• A pension scheme
• Organization driven by technology – we have a tremendous technology backbone
• Open, ‘can do’ team spirit and environment that encourages making your ideas reality
Diversity and Inclusion at Cognizant:
At Cognizant, we believe diversity and inclusion are at the heart of our ability to execute successfully and consistently over the long term. We recognize that our people are our most important asset. We strive to create an environment where all associates feel comfortable to be themselves, feel accepted and can therefore thrive both personally and professionally. We continue to drive D&I throughout our organization to unlock the insights, imagination and innovation of our associates, as well as reflect the diversity of our clients and communities. We are a Dutch and European Top Employer and continually drive employment recognition and engagement through employee friendly policies and affinity groups such as “Women Empowered”, “Embrace LGBTQ+” and “Race Equality Network”. For more information, see https://careers.cognizant.com/global/en/diversity-and-inclusion
Recruitment process:
To learn more about our hiring process, please visit https://careers.cognizant.com/nl/en/candidate-journey
Recruiter Contact Details
Name: Shilpa Kapur
Email address: Shilpa.kapur@cognizant.com
Employee Status : Full Time Employee
Shift : Day Job
Travel : No
Job Posting : Jan 29 2024
About Cognizant
Cognizant (Nasdaq-100: CTSH) is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant is ranked 185 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com or follow us @Cognizant.
