Job Summary
Join our team as a Sr. Data Engineer where you will leverage your expertise designing, building, and operating scalable, cloud native data platforms supporting batch and streaming use cases, with strong focus on governance, performance, and reliability. This hybrid position offers a day shift schedule.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate scalable, cloud‑native data platforms supporting both batch and streaming use cases.
- Ensure strong data governance, performance, and reliability within data ecosystems.
- Develop and operate data systems across major cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), designing scalable and cost‑efficient cloud‑native solutions.
- Build modern data architectures including data lakes, data lakehouses, and data hubs.
- Implement ingestion patterns and data collection pipelines using tools such as Kafka and AWS Glue.
- Work with modern storage formats including Apache Iceberg and Parquet.
- Design and develop real‑time streaming pipelines using Kafka, Flink, or similar streaming frameworks.
- Apply event‑driven architecture principles for low‑latency data processing.
- Transform and model data using SQL‑based frameworks and orchestration tools such as dbt, AWS Glue, and Airflow.
- Implement data modeling concepts such as Slowly Changing Dimensions (SCD) and schema evolution.
- Perform large‑scale data transformations (batch and streaming) using Apache Spark.
Qualifications
- Proven experience building and operating cloud‑native data solutions on AWS, Azure, and/or GCP.
- Strong understanding of modern data architectures, ingestion patterns, governance practices, observability, and platform best practices.
- Expertise in data ingestion tools (Kafka, AWS Glue) and modern storage formats (Iceberg, Parquet).
- Deep knowledge of real‑time data streaming and event‑driven architectures using Kafka, Flink, or similar frameworks.
- Advanced SQL modeling skills and experience with tools such as dbt, Glue, and Airflow.
- Strong knowledge of SCD techniques, schema evolution, and modern data modeling practices.
- Extensive hands‑on experience with Apache Spark for large‑scale transformations.
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
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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.