Remote AI Data Engineer - Cloud-Native Pipelines & AWS

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Carson City (NV); Remote; USD 100,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays & Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

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 and optimize scalable cloud-native data pipelines that power AI-driven applications across the AWS ecosystem.

You will collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, architects, and product owners to translate business needs into technical designs, implement production-grade Python code, and ensure high standards through testing and continuous delivery.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Python development experience with production-quality code.
• Proven data engineering experience building scalable data pipelines and processing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support scalable data pipelines, data integrations, and processing solutions using modern cloud-native technologies.

Skills

Python development

Data engineering

AWS services

Cloud-native architectures

AI-assisted development tools

Requirements translation

Code review & debugging

AWS Lambda

Tools

AWS Glue

AWS DMS

Apache Kafka

Apache Airflow

Snowflake

Claude Code

Kiro

MCP

CI/CD pipelines

TypeScript

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an AI Data Engineer to design and optimize scalable cloud-native data pipelines that power AI-driven applications across the AWS ecosystem.

You will collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, architects, and product owners to translate business needs into technical designs, implement production-grade Python code, and ensure high standards through testing and continuous delivery.