Senior Cloud Data Engineer: Redshift + Databricks Expert

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks an experienced Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable cloud data platforms and analytics pipelines. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise with Amazon Redshift, Fivetran, Databricks, and dbt, plus strong SQL and data modeling.

Join Cognizant to collaborate with analysts, data scientists and business stakeholders while delivering trusted data products at scale in a dynamic, global IT services environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in data engineering, data warehousing and ETL/ELT development.
• Advanced SQL skills and dimensional data modeling.
• Production experience with Amazon Redshift and performance tuning.
• Experience implementing Fivetran-based ingestion pipelines.
• Proficiency with Databricks, Spark and Delta Lake.
• Strong proficiency with dbt models, tests and deployment workflows.
• Proficiency in Python or another data engineering language.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD, orchestration, monitoring and cloud security fundamentals.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting and stakeholder-management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain reliable batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Build and optimize data warehouse solutions on Redshift, including schema design and performance tuning.
• Configure and manage Fivetran connectors and transformations for ingestion.
• Develop Databricks notebooks and pipelines using Spark and Delta Lake.
• Create modular, tested, and documented dbt transformations.
• Implement data quality checks, lineage, observability, security and governance controls.
• Collaborate with analysts, data scientists, product teams and stakeholders to translate requirements into data products.
• Troubleshoot pipeline failures and automate monitoring to improve platform reliability.
• Participate in code reviews, release management and engineering best practices.

Skills

Data engineering

Data warehousing

SQL

Amazon Redshift

Fivetran

Databricks

Apache Spark

dbt

Python

Git

CI/CD

Data quality

Tools

Airflow

Databricks Workflows

AWS S3

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation seeks an experienced Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable cloud data platforms and analytics pipelines. The ideal candidate will have hands-on expertise with Amazon Redshift, Fivetran, Databricks, and dbt, plus strong SQL and data modeling.

Join Cognizant to collaborate with analysts, data scientists and business stakeholders while delivering trusted data products at scale in a dynamic, global IT services environment.