Role: Data Engineer + AI Exposure
Location : Bangalore
Experience: 7 to 13 Years
Notice: Immediate to 90 days
Job Summary
We are seeking a skilled Data Engineer with AI/ML exposure responsible for designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and supporting data-driven applications, including AI/ML use cases. The ideal candidate should have strong expertise in data engineering tools along with working knowledge of machine learning workflows and cloud-based data platforms.
Key Responsibilities
Data Engineering
- Design, develop, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines
- Build and optimize data architectures, data lakes, and data warehouses
- Ensure data quality, integrity, and security across systems
- Work with structured and unstructured data from various sources
Big Data & Cloud
- Develop solutions using tools such as Azure Data Factory / AWS Glue / GCP Dataflow
- Work with big data technologies like Spark, Hadoop, or Databricks
- Manage data storage solutions including S3, ADLS, BigQuery, Snowflake, or Redshift
AI/ML Exposure
- Support machine learning pipelines and data preparation for ML models
- Collaborate with Data Scientists to enable feature engineering and model deployment
- Work on AI-enabled data solutions (e.g., NLP, recommendation systems, prediction models)
- Basic understanding of ML frameworks (Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, or PyTorch is a plus)
Data Modeling & Optimization
- Design and implement data models (dimensional & normalized)
- Optimize queries and pipelines for efficiency and cost
Collaboration & Governance
- Work closely with business teams, analysts, and ML engineers
- Implement data governance, lineage, and compliance standards
- Document workflows, pipelines, and architectures
Required Skills
Core Data Engineering
- Strong in SQL, Python
- Experience with ETL tools and pipeline orchestration (Airflow, ADF, etc.)
- Hands-on with data warehousing concepts
Big Data Technologies
- Apache Spark / PySpark
- Hadoop ecosystem (optional but preferred)
Cloud Platforms (any one required)
- Azure / AWS / GCP hands-on experience
- Familiarity with cloud-native data services
AI/ML Exposure
- Experience working with data for ML models
- Knowledge of ML lifecycle and data preparation
- Exposure to MLOps concepts (bonus)
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Databricks / Snowflake
- Knowledge of API-based data ingestion
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines
- Exposure to real-time streaming (Kafka, Event Hub, etc.)
- Understanding of Generative AI or LLM integrations (added advantage)
What we offer
- The chance to work with impact. Here, you’re empowered to bring your biggest thinking to help our company and clients improve everyday life.
- Ownership over your career. Stay at the top of your game through our award-winning learning and development ecosystem. And when your ambitions change or we offer new opportunities, we help you pivot by providing reskilling, on-the-job learning and guidance to find new roles that might be a better fit.
- The opportunity to thrive on a high caliber team with heart. We celebrate each other’s experiences and perspectives and promote a sense of belonging through our affinity groups and diversity and inclusion initiatives.
- A comprehensive total rewards package, including a competitive salary and a pension plan with matching contributions.
- Flexible health and financial benefits to support you and your eligible dependents—from day one.
- True work-life balance. Be at your best through paid time off, flexible work arrangements, volunteering opportunities, social events, and so much more.
About us
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, building the bridge between AI investment and enterprise value by building full-stack AI solutions for our clients. Our deep industry, process and engineering expertise enables us to build an organization’s unique context into technology systems that amplify human potential, realize tangible returns and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at www.cognizant.com or @cognizant.
Other employment-related information
Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, provincial or local laws.
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Language requirements vary depending on roles, but we ask that all candidates have basic English proficiency for company-wide communications purposes. For roles based in Quebec, professional English proficiency is required, as you’ll deliver services to and collaborate with stakeholders outside the province who may not speak French.
