Description

Position Summary:

Join Cognizant as a Data Modeler; collaborate with our experienced Engineering teams on exciting client projects where you will be able to create data models optimized across different data domains and for various purposes, working with enterprise requirements from business analysts, data architects, data administrators, database developers, and data scientists.

Duties and Responsibilities:

As a dedicated "Data Modeler", you will be responsible for below tasks in details.

Project Management

• Implement business and IT data requirements through new data strategies and designs across all data platforms (relational, dimensional, and NoSQL) and data tools (reporting, visualization, analytics, and machine learning).

• Work with business and application/solution teams to implement data strategies, build data flows, and develop conceptual/logical/physical data models.

• Define and govern data modelling and design standards, tools, best practices, and related development for enterprise data models.

• Identify the architecture, infrastructure, and interfaces to data sources, tools supporting automated data loads, security concerns, analytic models, and data visualization.

• Hands-on modelling, design, performance tuning etc.

• Work proactively and independently to address project requirements and articulate issues/challenges to reduce project delivery risks.

Technical Contribution

• Understand and translate business needs into data models supporting long-term solutions.

• Optimize and update logical and physical data models to support new and existing projects.

• Perform reverse engineering of physical data models from databases and SQL scripts.

• Recommend opportunities for reuse of data models in new environments.

• Evaluate data models and physical databases for variances and discrepancies.

• Validate business data objects for accuracy and completeness.

• Review modifications to existing software to improve efficiency and performance.

• Examine new application design and recommend corrections if required.

• Develop data models according to company standards.

• Analyse data-related system integration challenges and propose appropriate solutions.

• Work with development and UAT teams to support the test phase in terms of design issues.

• Perform source data analysis and understand the business requirement to provide the solutions and prepare data models.

• Strong experience in estimations that includes operational costs, resources, governance costs etc.

• Extensive experience in database tools like Teradata, Big data, Oracle etc.

Mandatory Skills:

Primary Skills

Database and Other skills

Tools

Data Modeling - Expert

Informatica Power Center - Expert

Teradata SQL - Expert

Oracle - Expert

Informatica - Push Down optimization

Python - Expert

Shell Script - Expert

HBase - Basic

Teradata - Expert

Hive - Expert

Oracle - Expert

Agentic AI -intermediate

MS Power BI - Intermediate

AWS - Expert

Synapse - Expert

PyCharm - Expert

Controlman - Expert

Project Management tools (JIRA, Service NOW, Remedy etc.) - Advanced

Dataiku - Expert

Alex - expert

Salary Range: >$100,000

Date of Posting: 16/October/2025

Next Steps: If you feel this opportunity suits you, or Cognizant is the type of organization you would like to join, we want to have a conversation with you! Please apply directly with us.

For a complete list of open opportunities with Cognizant, visit http://www.cognizant.com/careers. Cognizant is committed to providing Equal Employment Opportunities. Successful candidates will be required to undergo a background check.