Remote AI Data Engineer | Cloud-Native Pipelines & AWS

Cognizant; Olympia (WA); A distancia; USD 100.000 - 115.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Cognizant in the United States is seeking an AI Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable cloud-native data solutions for AI-driven applications. You will collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, Architects, product owners, and business stakeholders across the AWS ecosystem.

You will implement production-grade Python, AWS Lambda, and data platforms using AWS Glue, DMS, Kafka, Airflow, and Snowflake, translating requirements into specs and acceptance criteria while

Formación

• Strong hands-on Python development experience with production-quality 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, Kafka, Airflow, or Snowflake.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude Code or Kiro.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications and acceptance criteria.
• Experience reviewing, testing, debugging, and optimizing AI-generated code before production deployment.

Responsabilidades

• Design, develop, and support scalable data pipelines and processing solutions using cloud-native technologies.
• Build production-grade Python applications, scripts, and AWS Lambda functions that integrate with enterprise platforms and AWS services.
• Develop data platforms leveraging AWS Glue, AWS DMS, Apache Kafka, Apache Airflow, and Snowflake.
• Translate requirements into engineering specifications, designs, and acceptance criteria.
• Review, validate, test, debug, and optimize AI-generated code across the SDLC.

Conocimientos

Python development

Data engineering

AI-assisted development

Cloud-native architectures

Herramientas

AWS Glue

AWS DMS

Apache Kafka

Apache Airflow

Snowflake

AWS Lambda

Claude Code

Kiro

Descripción del empleo

Cognizant in the United States is seeking an AI Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize scalable cloud-native data solutions for AI-driven applications. You will collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, Architects, product owners, and business stakeholders across the AWS ecosystem.

You will implement production-grade Python, AWS Lambda, and data platforms using AWS Glue, DMS, Kafka, Airflow, and Snowflake, translating requirements into specs and acceptance criteria while