SR Azure Data Factory with SSIS- Remote at Cognizant
Norfolk, VA
$130,000–$140,000from the description
Jul 1, 2026
Norfolk, VA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A data engineering role focused on building and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines using Azure Data Factory and SSIS, with a strong emphasis on migrating legacy SSIS packages to the cloud. Day-to-day work involves designing data integration workflows across varied sources, managing Azure Data Lake and Blob Storage pipelines, and supporting enterprise data warehouse modernization. Suits an experienced data engineer with solid T-SQL and data warehousing fundamentals.
Senior level · 8+ years · Remote · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 130 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (database administrators). range 80–240
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 $106,921 (middle half $81,361–$138,439). 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)
SOC confidence is Medium: the role is primarily an ETL/data pipeline builder (15-1243 Database Architects / Data Engineers) but involves enough pipeline coding in ADF, PySpark, and Python that 15-1252 Software Developers is a plausible runner-up.
PySpark and Python appear together in the required section as 'Pyspark/python' but are framed as a single combined item with no firm gating language; treated as preferred accordingly.
Azure DevOps, Git, and CI/CD appear in the 'Nice to Have' section and are marked preferred, even though CI/CD support is mentioned in the primary responsibilities narrative.
The posting states no visa sponsorship is available.
Experience range is stated as 8–10 years; 8 is used as the minimum.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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