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Snowflake Data Engineer

Cognizant Richmond, VA

Richmond, VA

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Job Description

Cognizant is seeking a hands-on Senior Developer to support enterprise data quality and governance programs with a focus on practical implementation. The role will work onsite in Richmond, VA, partnering with data engineering, architecture, and business stakeholders to strengthen metadata management, lineage, and data catalog capabilities, including the use of AI/GenAI to speed up discovery and enrichment.

In this position, you will design and operationalize governance and quality capabilities across modern data platforms, with integrations that support ecosystems such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, and related databases and cloud storage environments.

What you’ll do

Design, develop, and implement data quality rules, including profiling, monitoring, and scorecards across enterprise data platforms.
Build and maintain data governance capabilities such as a business glossary, metadata management, data catalog, and lineage.
Automate lineage discovery and impact analysis.
Generate and recommend data quality rules, and enrich metadata and business definitions.
Improve catalog search and overall data asset discovery.
Develop integrations between data quality and governance tools and platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, Azure Data Factory, SQL databases, and cloud storage.
Support MDM initiatives including data stewardship and golden record management using tools such as Reltio.
Collaborate with data engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to implement governance and quality standards.
Analyze data issues, perform root cause analysis, and implement preventive controls.
Develop automation scripts and reusable frameworks to improve governance and quality processes.

Required qualifications

10 years of experience in Data Quality, Data Governance, Metadata Management, or MDM.
Strong hands-on experience with a data quality platform such as DQ Labs, Ataccama, Informatica Data Quality, DQ Bigeye, Monte Carlo, Soda, or similar.
Experience with data catalog and lineage tools such as Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Alation, Informatica EDC, or similar.
Experience leveraging AI/GenAI for metadata management, lineage generation, cataloging, and data quality rule creation.
Proficiency in SQL and Python.
Experience with cloud data platforms including Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Snowflake, and Azure.
Understanding of data governance frameworks, data stewardship, business glossary, and data quality dimensions.

Technologies you may use

DQ Labs, Ataccama, Informatica, DQ Bigeye, Monte Carlo, Soda
Microsoft Purview, Collibra, Alation, Informatica EDC
AI/GenAI, LLMs, LLM AI agents, Copilot technologies
SQL, Python, ADF, Databricks, Snowflake, Azure
Reltio

Education

Bachelor degree in Computer Science Information Systems Engineering or related field

Benefits

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
401(k) plan and contributions
Long-term/Short-term Disability
Paid Parental Leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Preferred skills

Experience with Reltio MDM or similar MDM platforms.
Experience implementing governance and quality controls in modern data lakehouse environments.
Exposure to LLMs, AI agents, Copilot technologies, or AI powered governance solutions.
Knowledge of regulatory and compliance requirements related to data governance.

Salary and other compensation

The annual salary for this position is USD 152,000 per year. This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

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