Principal Architect

Cognizant · India · Posted 24 days ago

About this role

Job Summary Serve as a principal architect specializing in Snowflake data platforms designing secure and scalable intelligence solutions that enable high value analytics across the enterprise. Collaborate with diverse product and business teams in a hybrid work model to transform complex data into trusted insights driving innovation efficiency and meaningful impact on customers and society. Responsibilities • Design end to end Snowflake based data architectures that enable secure scalable and performant analytics solutions aligned with enterprise strategies and long term business objectives. • Define robust patterns for Snowflake Intelligence including data modeling data sharing and governance that streamline insight generation and accelerate decision making across stakeholder groups. • Architect efficient Snowflake SQL solutions that optimize query performance reduce compute costs and ensure consistent response times for mission critical analytical workloads. • Implement and refine Snowflake Streams designs that support reliable change data capture near real time data movement and seamless integration with downstream analytical applications. • Collaborate with product owners data engineers and analysts to translate complex business requirements into practical Snowflake platform designs that deliver measurable outcomes and operational improvements. • Establish architecture standards guidelines and review processes that maintain high quality implementations across Snowflake pr