Sr. Snowflake Technical Lead
Cognizant · Charlotte, NC
$150,000–$175,000from the description
Jul 27, 2026
Charlotte, NC
Jul 28, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior technical lead role at Cognizant focused on architecting and delivering enterprise-scale cloud data platforms on Snowflake and AWS for client engagements. The position combines hands-on data engineering work — including dbt, Python, and AWS data services — with client-facing consulting, solution workshops, and cross-team technical leadership across onsite and offshore delivery teams. Suits an experienced data platform architect comfortable in a consulting environment.
Senior level · 12+ years · Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 4 people in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database architects). range 2–5
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Rare in this occupation — lead with these, and say what you built with them.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $141,924 (middle half $120,421–$172,379). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (6)
The individual AWS services (S3, Glue, Lambda, Athena, Step Functions, IAM, CloudWatch) are all listed together under the required qualifications block, so each is captured as a hard gate.
The role is classified as 15-1243 (Database Architects) given its primary focus on Snowflake data warehouse/lakehouse architecture and data modeling; however, the heavy Python/dbt engineering and software delivery aspects make 15-1252 (Software Developers) a plausible alternative.
Data modeling concepts (dimensional modeling, star/snowflake schemas, Data Vault, Lakehouse) are required but are methodologies rather than named tools, so they are not emitted as discrete skills.
Industry experience (Banking, Financial Services, Insurance, Healthcare) and pre-sales/solutioning experience appear under the 'stand out' (preferred) section.
Visa sponsorship is explicitly unavailable for this role.
The posting states no minimum degree requirement — equivalent experience is implicitly accepted.
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