Senior Azure Data Architect - Arlington, VA at Cognizant Technology Solutions in Washington, Virginia

Job Description:

Join a team of passionate thought leaders in a dynamic and collaborative environment! The Cognizant Microsoft Business Group's Applied Innovation team is growing fast and we're looking for our next Senior Azure Data Architect to join us.

ROLE DESCRIPTION

What impact will you have in this role?

This is a permanent, full time role at the Cognizant Microsoft Business Group. Every role at MBG is equally important in the grand scheme of things and everything we do is teamwork. Through teamwork, building relationships internally and with clients, understanding context at all times and what is important, and getting comfortable with influence and persuasion you will stand out as an expert in your field. As a consultant with MBG you will have an opportunity to not only proudly own the solution together with your team, but also to share your experience, mentor others, at times collaborate with sales and contribute to continuous improvement of internal processes and DevOps.

What will you be doing day-to-day?

Your primary responsibility will be to work on projects - As a Senior Azure Data Architect/Consultant, you will act as a trusted advisor for MBG clients by designing and building analytics architectures to enable better business outcomes for these corporations. You will work across client stakeholders to determine solution requirements and rationalize architecture decisions. During implementation, you will collect, aggregate, and analyze structured/unstructured data from multiple internal and external sources and present patterns, insights, and trends to decision-makers. Your goal is to support the use of data-driven insights to help our clients achieve business outcomes and objectives.

What type of experience do you need to be successful in this role? .

• Knowledge of Azure Data & Analytics PaaS Services: Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Azure SQL DW, and Azure SQL
• Expose data to end-users using Azure API Apps or any other modern visualization platform or experience
• Azure IoT, Azure HDInsight + Spark, Azure Cosmos DB, and Azure Stream Analytics
• Experience with Git/TFS/VSTS
• Knowledge of Lambda and Kappa architecture patterns
• Knowledge of Master Data Management (MDM) and Data Quality tools and processes

Our consultants are self-motivated and pragmatic with strong problem-solving skills and a passion for crafting great solutions coming with a wealth of experience or talent that enables quality software delivery. They understand the best approach to architecture and development is through blending technologies and methodologies appropriate to the task at hand. The goal is to contribute to the clients' long lasting success to enable us to expand our business and clientele.

What education and certification credentials are needed for this role?

• Developing Solutions for Microsoft Azure | AZ 203
• Microsoft Azure Architect Design | AZ 301
• Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies | AZ 300
• Designing an Azure Data Solution | DP-201
• Developing SQL Databases | 70-762
• Analyzing and Visualizing Data with Microsoft Power BI | 70-778
• Designing and Implementing an Azure AI Solution | AI-100
• Implementing a Data Warehouse Using SQL | 70-767
• Implementing an Azure Data Solution | DP-200

We encourage our team members to meet with our customers in person for at least 20% of the time they are working together. This may require travel outside of normal working hours.

Security Responsibility:

All employees must act in accordance with the Cognizant Microsoft Business Group's corporate security standards.

ABOUT THE COGNIZANT MICROSOFT BUSINESS GROUP (MBG)

The Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (MBG) has a singular purpose-advancing your cloud modernization journey with focus, simplicity and scale. The Microsoft Business Group is an end-to-end Microsoft-centric cloud solutions and managed services provider that leverages extensive experience and IP to deliver constant innovation and business value, powered by the Microsoft Cloud platform. We are designed to reflect how you think about cloud transformation from a platform native perspective. Our dedicated experts and trusted blueprint deliver your digital difference through the Microsoft Cloud: Azure, Microsoft 365 and Dynamics 365. We turn digital potential into real business performance at speed.

Who We Are

We are the destination employer for Microsoft-committed professionals, providing depth of specialization and differentiated career paths. We have authentic conversations, build connections and grow careers while centering ourselves around our employees. We are a global team of certified consultants across all relevant technologies, coupled with cloud focused advisory consultants. With our supercharged talent, we are the world's best Microsoft partner. We prioritize investing and expanding.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

As a Global Cloud Transformation Consultancy business, the Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (MBG) understands diversity and inclusion in the workplace brings benefits to our customers, our business and most importantly, our people. We are committed to being an inclusive employer and we provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment.

The Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (MBG) prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other factors protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including all aspects of the recruiting and employment life-cycle at Cognizant Microsoft Business Group (MBG).