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Presales Data Solutions Architect - Google Business Group

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COGNIZANT GOOGLE BUSINESS GROUP

Digital is no longer some future state. It's here and now. Adopting a cloud-first platform approach to accelerate your digital journey helps maintain a future-proofed competitive advantage. Cognizant's Google Business Group ("GBG") orchestrates the native capabilities of the Google Cloud in partnership with Cognizant's deep technology and industry expertise to deliver customer digital outcomes.

To that end, GBG helps customers transform and evolve their business with Google's global capabilities covering app modernisation, infra modernisation, data modernisation, security and world class AI/ML for differentiated business outcomes.

As part of an entrepreneurial team of this fast-growing business, we are looking for dynamic, result oriented and experienced technology practitioner to help drive growth and shape the future with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services. To be successful, you'll need a unique combination of business acumen, communication and strong interpersonal skills along with a technology passion for emerging cloud technologies. If this sounds like you, keep reading!

The Role:

As a pre-sales Cloud solution architect you will shape the solution and architecture for key projects. You should be very comfortable in articulating technology win themes and value propositions that will position Cognizant favourably with its customers. You'll be engaging with our customers and prospects to provide pre & post sales solution and architectural advice and thought leadership covering either of machine learning, data, analytics, apps and infra competencies. Additionally, you will be assisting the offerings group to build out the next-generation offerings & products based on Google cloud. We're looking for someone who can build long-term relationships with Cognizant's customer CTO's, partner with peer technical and commercial colleagues.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced professional in cloud technologies who would like to work as part of a team of experts in the fields of Data and Analytics, AI/ML, IoT Applications as a subject matter expert in solution/cloud architecture (from data/analytics perspective). This Presales role is customer-facing, working closely with business and technical influencers, and will require a deep background in Information Technology. Successful candidates will bring multiple years' Data / Analytics experience with cloud platforms (GCP or AWS/Azure). Ideally, you'll have served as an SME in designing and migrating applications in the cloud, worked on digital transformation projects involving complex cloud deployments, have performed Presales activities for at least 2-3 years and be adept at the design of innovative cloud (data/analytics) solutions for Industry/Enterprise requirements.

You will be responsible for providing technical thought leadership and solution expertise around GCP Data (Engineering / Science) technologies. This includes technology assessment, as well as solution outline and design for data engineering processes. You'll have practical data engineering experience across hybrid cloud, systems integration, information management, business analytics and architecture.

You will help design end to end Data (Engineering / Science) processes across multiple platforms with extensive experience on managing GCP data workflows. You`ll demonstrate hands-on expertise in creating data engineering solutions for clients, creating best of breed end-to-end solutions leveraging Hybrid Cloud and traditional data platform offerings. If that sounds like something you'd be passionate about, we want to hear from you!

Responsibilities:

• Enable GBG growth through sales wins via technology differentiation and innovation
• Design compelling, innovative and competitive client propositions for technology outsourcing with innovative Google cloud technologies
• Outline the pursuit sales and solution strategy to provide direction for solution contributors and subject matter experts (e.g. through developing a solution blueprint and transformation storyboard)
• Stay up to date with state of the art technology trends to propose new features and provide value and innovative solutions to our customer
• Lead customer meetings, presentations and negotiations during the deal life-cycle
• Oversee the design and development of end-to-end technical solutions covering service offerings
• Work with other business units to integrate complex multi-tower deals spanning infrastructure, applications, data, analytics, security etc.
• Build tight working relationship with offshore pre-sales, delivery and other services teams
• Lead and Contribute to written RFI and RFP responses and face-to-face customer interactions including solution presentations
• Internal & External cost inputs (including against industry benchmarks) to ensure solution is optimized from financial perspective
• Contribute to drafting or review of customer SoWs
• Excellent operational hygiene in all pre-sales activities, team motivation, reskilling and quality of deliverables.
• Provide thought leadership in solutions approaches, educate sales teams on solution offerings, bid process and changes in the market
• Collaborate with technology partners to support the reskilling solution teams on the latest market trends.
• Be seen as a senior practice leader for GBG unit overall, contribute in offering development, go to market strategy and solutions, operational and sales excellence and thought leadership
• Work with the most innovative and scalable data processing and cloud technologies
• Work in an agile and dynamic environment together
• Be a leader and mentor to other/junior team members

Qualifications:

Necessary for Success:

• Minimum 5 years' experience in architecting Data / Analytics solutions for cloud services out of total 12+ year of experience.
• Cloud Data / Analytics certifications (GCP or AWS/Azure)
  • GCP Data Engineer, GCP associate

• Act as GCP Data Solution Architect, responsible for solution proposal, architecture and commercial proposal for various GCP Data opportunities.

• Data Engineering processes analysis and design as well as system implementation
• Working with technical and operational subject matter experts to build data pipelines, and understand reports, controls, data movement, and business terminology
• Hands-on experience on code management platform (GitHub)
• Hands-on experience on Google Cloud Data Platform
• Hands-on experience on data platforms, architecture, systems integration (ETLs ELTs), information management and business analytics
• Designing Datawarehouse and data cubes using fact/dimension schemas
• Proficient in SQL programing

• Utilizing GCP as landing zone, well versed with Cloud solutions on load balancing, performance, scalability, concepts of microservices - its applicability
• Must be able to articulate technical merits and value of cloud computing and comparative in-depth analysis of GCP vs other clouds (AWS, Azure)
• Demonstrated, strong analytical and technical capabilities, with an innovative 'edge'
• Exceptional communication skills; both written and verbal with great attention to detail
• Able to present concepts in an authoritative and clear manner to customers through white-boarding, presentations, and proposals
• Ability to develop and maintain relationships with key external stakeholders at various business & technical levels
• Experience in technical pre-sales, able to evangelize disruptive proposals

Nice to have/Chance to grow:

• GCP certifications
• Understanding and experience in a few digital transformation technologies (e.g. product centric org structures, pod based delivery model, TDD/BDD, DevOps, Agile (scrum, Kanban, SAfe 4.0 or above), microservices, containerization, serverless, hybrid hosting patterns such as private, public cloud, PaaS (OpenShift, Cloud Foundry), ETL tools, Hadoop-based technologies (e.g. Spark) and/or batch/streaming data pipelines (e.g. Beam, Flink), data lake and data warehouse solutions using technology such as BigQuery, Azure Synapse, Redshift, Oracle, Teradata, etc., analytical products using technology such as Looker, Tableau, Data Studio, PowerBI, Qlik, etc.
• High degree of comfort and ability to talk through approach to perform app portfolio analysis, identify candidates for cloud native journey: re-host, re-platform, re-architect etc.
• Basic knowledge of and ideally some experience with data science topics like machine learning, data mining, statistics, and visualization
• Contributions to open-source projects
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a suitable technical and management field

You'll enjoy:

• Regular networking events, mentoring events and conferences
• Exposure to experts from a number of industries
• Freedom to explore the latest tools and technologies
• Knowledge-sharing activities

Cognizant is recognized as a Military Friendly Employer and is a coalition member of the Veteran Jobs Mission. Our Cognizant Veterans Network assists Veterans in building and growing a career at Cognizant that allows them to leverage the leadership, loyalty, integrity, and commitment to excellence instilled in them through participation in military service.

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

If you're comfortable with change, excited by growth, passionate about technology and excel through entrepreneurship, we'd love to hear from you!

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