Snowflake Data Engineer

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating many 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 more successful. Moreover, this is your chance to be part of the success story: we are looking for a Snowflake Data Engineer to join our CDB-AIA Team.

About Cognizant Digital Business
Cognizant’s Digital Business (CDB) Practice has been formed to support our client's Cloud-based Datalake/Data mesh requirements. As we are strengthening our Germany and European operations, the Digital Practice wants to leverage our thought-leadership capabilities to drive clients to accelerate the pace of their inevitable towards cloud-based Datawarehouse and their journey. Cognizant has implemented the strategic global relationships to support our aspirations going forward.

What you can expect

• Competitive compensation package consists of base salary from 2300 up to 2800 EUR gross/monthly, annual bonus, and monetary recognitions
• Become part of the ‘flag ship’ success story
• Being able to act as a mature Snowflake developer
• Open, ‘can do’ team spirit
• Environment where you can make your own ideas a reality & Drive your own career
• Become part of the ‘flag ship’ success story
• Being able to act as a mature Snowflake lead
• Open, ‘can do’ team spirit
• Environment where you can make your own ideas a reality & drive your own career
• Benefits package that encourages healthy living, well-being and desire to learn and grow:
• From the first working day available - Life insurance and Health insurance plan which also includes dentistry, pharmacy coverage, various sports;
• Compensation of optical glasses or contact lenses up to 180 EUR;
• Accessing a smartphone and mobile subscription, as well free car parking or bike shelter;
• Individual life coaching and mindfulness sessions;
• Flexible working hours, and ability to work from home;
• Various learning platforms with over 50,000 self-paced courses, books and other training resources;
• Self-realization opportunities through outreach, committees and communities.

About the role
As a Snowflake developer associate, you will develop Snowflake data systems/analytics services to ensure that the Users and Products team members have the product, support, and operations data they need to make crucial business decisions. You will have the opportunity to work with Sr. Associates / Architects in Cognizant to solve challenging Business problems in Snowflake & Cloud technologies area.

Our ideal candidate (Key Skills & Experience)
• Having 1+ year of Snowflake experience with the ability to work independently
• Good skills in databases, data warehouses, and data processing
• Work hands-on to develop technological solutions in Snowflake / Cloud Technologies
• Ability to apply Snowflake coding standards and best practices in day to day work
• Work with Team leads / Solution architects to ensure solutions align with technology direction.
• Ability to write moderately complex SQL statements and fine tune for best possible snowflake performance to cost ratio
• Build data pipelines in cloud for data transformation and aggregation.
• Ability to identify opportunities for innovation and automation
• Understanding of software development life cycle and delivery methodologies

Technical skillset
• Understanding of Snowflake architecture
• Good skills on Snowflake development (Procedures)
• Ability to write Moderately complex SQL queries
• Exposure to cloud data engineering technologies (AWS / Azure / GCP)
• Basic understanding of Data modelling methodologies (3NF, Data Vault & Dimensional)
• Familiarity with common BI and data exploration tools (e.g. Tableau )

Certification
• Good to have – Snowflake Snowpro Core Certification

Language Requirement
• No specific language constraint. English is used for daily conversation and documentation.