Snowflake Cortex Architect

Onsite Opportunity Snowflake Cortex Architect
Client: Cognizant
Locations: Dallas, Chicago, New Jersey, California

We are seeking a highly skilled Snowflake Cortex Architect to design and implement scalable, secure, and high-performance data solutions.
Key Responsibilities:
Design and implement robust architectures on Snowflake to support scalable and high-performance data workloads.
Leverage Snowflake Cortex AI capabilities (LLMs, embeddings, summarization, classification) to build intelligent data applications.
Develop and optimize data pipelines using Snowflake features such as Snowpipe, Streams, and Tasks.
Build AI-powered use cases, including:
o Text summarization and classification
o Semantic search and question-answering
o Natural language querying over structured and unstructured data
Implement Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) architectures using Snowflake and external vector databases where required.
Design and optimize data models (Star/Snowflake schema) for analytics and AI workloads.
Integrate Snowflake with external systems, APIs, and AI/ML services.
Ensure strong data governance, security, and compliance using Snowflake capabilities (RBAC, masking policies, data sharing).
Optimize performance and cost through efficient warehouse sizing, query tuning, and caching strategies.