Role: Senior Data Engineer
Location: Burgess Hill, Hybrid (3 days a week)
Employment: Fulltime
Required skill set:
Senior hands-on Data/Database Engineer with strong expertise in Oracle and PostgreSQL, plus practical experience with Cassandra, MongoDB, and/or Couchbase.
Strong experience in database engineering, performance tuning, schema deployment, high availability, resilience, security and troubleshooting across enterprise environments.
Strong automation/DevOps mindset, using Ansible, Terraform, Python/Shell, Infrastructure as Code, Git and CI/CD to automate database provisioning and deployments.
Experience working closely with Application Teams and Data Architects on new initiatives, database migrations, modernisation, and production deployments, rather than a traditional DBA-only role.
Preferably experienced in financial services/banking or regulated environments.
About Cognizant:
Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider, bridging the gap 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, drive tangible outcomes and keep global enterprises ahead in a fast-changing world. See how at cognizant.ai or @cognizant.
Additional employment information
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