Remote AI Data Engineer – Cloud Data Pipelines

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Topeka (KS); Remote; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

401(k) plan and contributions

Paid holidays and PTO

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an AI Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable cloud-native data solutions that enable AI-driven applications. You will work with data engineers, software engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to deliver solutions across the AWS ecosystem.

The role emphasizes production-grade Python development and hands-on experience with AWS services, Glue, DMS, Kafka, Airflow, and Snowflake, with AI-assisted tooling to accelerate

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Python development experience with production-quality code.
• Proven data engineering experience building scalable data pipelines and processing solutions.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services and cloud-native data engineering architectures.
• Experience with AWS Glue, AWS DMS, Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow, or Snowflake.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software engineering.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and acceptance criteria.
• Experience reviewing, testing, debugging, and optimizing AI-generated code.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and optimize scalable data pipelines and integrations.
• Develop production-grade Python applications and AWS Lambda functions.
• Leverage AWS Glue, AWS DMS, Kafka, Airflow, and Snowflake to power AI-driven apps.
• Translate requirements into engineering designs and measurable criteria.
• Review and optimize AI-generated code across the software lifecycle.

Skills

Python development

AWS data pipelines

Cloud-native architectures

Data engineering

Apache Kafka

Apache Airflow

Snowflake

Tools

AWS Lambda

AWS Glue

AWS DMS

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an AI Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable cloud-native data solutions that enable AI-driven applications. You will work with data engineers, software engineers, architects, and business stakeholders to deliver solutions across the AWS ecosystem.

The role emphasizes production-grade Python development and hands-on experience with AWS services, Glue, DMS, Kafka, Airflow, and Snowflake, with AI-assisted tooling to accelerate