Remote AI Data Engineer — Cloud Pipelines & AWS

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid holidays

401(k) plan

Disability coverage

Parental leave

Employee stock plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation 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, and stakeholders to deliver modern data pipelines on AWS.

Responsibilities include building Python apps and Lambda functions, leveraging AWS Glue/DMS, Kafka, Airflow, and Snowflake, and translating business needs into engineering specs.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on Python development with production-quality code.
• Proven data engineering experience building scalable data pipelines.
• Hands-on expertise with AWS services and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with Glue, DMS, Kafka, Airflow, or Snowflake.
• Experience using AI-assisted development tools to accelerate software engineering.
• Ability to translate business requirements into technical specs and acceptance criteria.
• Experience reviewing, testing, debugging, and optimizing AI-generated code.
• Developing AWS Lambda functions in Python and integrating with AWS services.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Python development

Data pipelines

AWS services

Cloud-native

AI-assisted tools

Requirements translation

Code review & debugging

CI/CD

Tools

AWS Glue

AWS DMS

Apache Kafka

Apache Airflow

Snowflake

Claude Code

Kiro

TypeScript

AWS Lambda

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation 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, and stakeholders to deliver modern data pipelines on AWS.

Responsibilities include building Python apps and Lambda functions, leveraging AWS Glue/DMS, Kafka, Airflow, and Snowflake, and translating business needs into engineering specs.