Data Engineer - Advanced Technology Group (Remote) at Cognizant in St. Louis, Missouri

Job Description:

Data Engineer

This position may be filled at these alternative locations: Kansas City, MO / St. Louis, MO / Cincinnati, OH / Missoula, MT / Virtual

 

ATG believes in advancing inclusion, acceptance, and understanding amongst our team by employing individuals who bring unique perspectives and diversity of experiences to the company. We encourage all interested individuals, including people of all races and national origin, people of all ages, people of all religions, people with or without disabilities, and/or people with any gender identity and sexual orientation, to apply.

What does a Data Engineer do for ATG?

The ATG Data Engineer's primary role is to strategize, implement, solve, and execute on data-related solutions to support ATG initiatives on a variety of platforms.  Common activities may include, creating data strategies, data migration/conversions, data mapping, and data profiling.  The role will interact with the latest enterprise SaaS platforms within the monetization ecosystem.  Individuals in the role will leverage their business, analytical, and technical skills to provide expert guidance on data strategies to our customers that are critical in solution implementations.

What are some of the responsibilities of a Data Engineer?

• Participate in discovery sessions with project teams to understand data requirements needed to support solution implementations. 


• Work collaboratively with a project and client team in an agile environment to support our cloud initiatives


• Leverage system and process analysis skills to produce data strategies that create a seamless and uninterrupted experience for our clients. 


• Collaborate with clients to generate data mapping documents between target and source systems.


• Leverage industry-leading tools to extract, transform and load data into source systems in an automated fashion to support data migrations. 


• Perform data profiling tasks to collect statistics, trends, impacts, and summaries that lead to a structured and successful implementation


• Provide key insights based on data analytics to aid the client in drawing conclusions as to the business value and impact of their data and best approaches for migrating and transforming data to support new system architectures.


• Work with project management to provide regular status updates to internal and external stakeholders.   

What are the minimum requirements to be a Data Engineer?

• Bachelor’s degree and 1-5 years experience in a data-related position that includes the use of common database tools, ETL products, and interacting with data within relational databases.   

What other skills, knowledge, and qualifications are needed to be a successful Data Engineer?

• Demonstrated knowledge of ETL (Extract-Transform-Load) concepts


• In-depth experience with SQL and PL/SQL


• Proficiency in object-oriented programming (Java, C++, C#) and/or scripting (Python, Perl, PHP)


• Experience working in cloud transformation projects within CRM, CPQ, and/or Finance systems


• Ability to effectively manage time and prioritize tasks


• Capability to take on tasks with little direction, and produce high-value deliverables in a fast-paced environment


• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to work with technical and non-technical users, other departments, and clients


• Experience working in an Agile (Scrum) environment desired


• Organization skills - ability to work in a highly dynamic environment with shifting priorities

Location and Travel:

• Willingness and ability to travel up to 50%

Cognizant will not sponsor H-1B or other U.S. work authorization, or lawful permanent residence (otherwise known as a “Green Card”) for this role.

Technical Skills

SNo	Primary Skill	Proficiency Level *	Rqrd./Dsrd.
1	Salesforce CPQ	PL3	Required
2	Salesforce Customization	PL3	Desired
3	Salesforce Analytics & Report	PL2	Desired
4	Salesforce Integration	PL3	Desired
5	Salesforce Configuration	PL3	Desired

 

* Proficiency Legends

Proficiency Level	Generic Reference
PL1	The associate has basic awareness and comprehension of the skill and is in the process of acquiring this skill through various channels.
PL2	The associate possesses working knowledge of the skill, and can actively and independently apply this skill in engagements and projects.
PL3	The associate has comprehensive, in-depth and specialized knowledge of the skill. She / he has extensively demonstrated successful application of the skill in engagements or projects.
PL4	The associate can function as a subject matter expert for this skill. The associate is capable of analyzing, evaluating and synthesizing solutions using the skill.

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