Remote AI Data Engineer — Python, AWS & Data Pipelines

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation

Columbus (GA)

Remote

USD 100,000 - 115,000

Full time

2 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
401(k) plan and contributions
Parental Leave
Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an AI Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize cloud-native data solutions for AI-driven applications. You will collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, architects, and stakeholders across AWS services, delivering scalable pipelines and production-grade Python code.

Required hands-on Python, strong data engineering background, and expertise with AWS Glue/DMS, Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake, and Lambda.

Qualifications

  • Strong hands-on Python development experience delivering production-quality code.
  • Proven data engineering experience building and supporting scalable data pipelines.
  • Hands-on with AWS services and cloud-native data architectures.
  • Experience with Glue, DMS, Kafka, Airflow, or Snowflake.
  • Familiar with AI-assisted development tools (Claude Code, Kiro).
  • Ability to translate business needs into technical specs and criteria.
  • Experience reviewing, testing, debugging, and optimizing AI-generated code.
  • Experience building AWS Lambda functions in Python and integrating with AWS services.

Responsibilities

  • Design, develop, and optimize scalable data pipelines and integrations.
  • Build production-grade Python apps and Lambda functions.
  • Develop data platforms using AWS Glue, DMS, Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake.
  • Translate requirements into engineering designs and acceptance criteria.
  • Review and optimize AI-generated code across the SDLC.

Skills

Python development
Data engineering
AWS cloud
AWS Glue
AWS DMS
Apache Kafka
Apache Airflow
Snowflake
Claude Code
Kiro
Lambda (Python)
requirements translation
code review & testing

Job description

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation is seeking an AI Data Engineer to design, build, and optimize cloud-native data solutions for AI-driven applications. You will collaborate with data engineers, software engineers, architects, and stakeholders across AWS services, delivering scalable pipelines and production-grade Python code.

Required hands-on Python, strong data engineering background, and expertise with AWS Glue/DMS, Kafka, Airflow, Snowflake, and Lambda.

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