Remote AI Data Engineer: Cloud Data Pipelines & AI Apps

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays and PTO

401(k) plan

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

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

You will develop data pipelines, Lambda functions, and data platforms using AWS Glue, DMS, Kafka, Airflow, and Snowflake.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Python development experience with production-grade code.
• Proven data engineering experience building, deploying, and supporting scalable data pipelines.
• 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 such as Claude Code, Kiro, or similar.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical specs and acceptance criteria.
• Experience reviewing, testing, debugging, and optimizing AI-generated code before production.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support scalable data pipelines and processing solutions.
• Build production-grade Python applications and AWS Lambda functions.
• Develop data platforms using AWS Glue, AWS DMS, Kafka, Airflow, and Snowflake.
• Translate requirements into engineering designs and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Review and optimize AI-generated code throughout the SDLC.

Skills

Python

Data engineering

AWS services

AWS Glue

AWS DMS

Apache Kafka

Apache Airflow

Snowflake

CI/CD

MCP (Model Context Protocol)

Tools

Claude Code

Kiro

AWS Lambda

TypeScript

Job description

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

You will develop data pipelines, Lambda functions, and data platforms using AWS Glue, DMS, Kafka, Airflow, and Snowflake.