Remote AI Data Engineer: Cloud Pipelines & AI Tools

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation; Helena (MT); 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, build, and optimize scalable cloud-native data pipelines for AI-driven applications within the AWS ecosystem.

You will collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, architects, product owners, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into engineering designs, develop Python-based solutions, and implement Lambda functions leveraging AWS services.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Python development experience delivering production-quality code.
• Proven data engineering experience building 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 to accelerate software engineering while maintaining rigor.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and support scalable data pipelines and processing solutions using modern cloud-native technologies.
• Build production-grade Python applications and AWS Lambda functions that integrate with enterprise platforms, APIs, and AWS services.
• Develop and enhance data platforms leveraging AWS Glue, AWS DMS, Kafka, Airflow, and Snowflake.
• Translate business and technical requirements into engineering specifications, designs, and acceptance criteria.
• Review, test, debug, and optimize AI-generated code prior to production deployment.

Skills

Python

Data engineering

AWS

Cloud-native architectures

Tools

AWS Glue

AWS DMS

Apache Kafka

Apache Airflow

Snowflake

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 within the AWS ecosystem.

You will collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, architects, product owners, and business stakeholders to translate requirements into engineering designs, develop Python-based solutions, and implement Lambda functions leveraging AWS services.