Remote AI Data Engineer — Cloud Data Pipelines & Python

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays

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 pipelines for AI-driven applications. You will work with data engineers, software engineers, architects, and stakeholders to deliver solutions across the AWS ecosystem.

Responsibilities include developing production-grade Python applications and Lambda functions, leveraging AWS Glue, DMS, Kafka, Airflow, and Snowflake, and translating requirements into concrete

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Python development experience with demonstrated success delivering production-quality code.
• Proven data engineering experience building, deploying, and supporting scalable data pipelines and processing solutions.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services and cloud-native data engineering architectures.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code, Kiro, or similar technologies to accelerate software engineering while maintaining engineering rigor.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support scalable data pipelines, data integrations, and processing solutions using modern cloud-native technologies.
• Build production-grade Python applications, scripts, and AWS Lambda functions that integrate with enterprise platforms, APIs, and AWS services.
• Develop and enhance data platforms leveraging technologies such as AWS Glue, AWS DMS, Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow, and Snowflake.
• Translate business and technical requirements into engineering specifications, technical designs, and measurable acceptance criteria.
• Review, validate, test, debug, and optimize AI-generated code while applying engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.

Skills

Python

Data engineering

AWS services

AWS Glue

AWS DMS

Kafka

Airflow

Snowflake

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 pipelines for AI-driven applications. You will work with data engineers, software engineers, architects, and stakeholders to deliver solutions across the AWS ecosystem.

Responsibilities include developing production-grade Python applications and Lambda functions, leveraging AWS Glue, DMS, Kafka, Airflow, and Snowflake, and translating requirements into concrete