AWS Data Engineer

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating a lot of opportunities for people like YOU — people with an entrepreneurial spirit who want to make a difference in this world.

At Cognizant, together with your colleagues from all around the world, you will collaborate on creating solutions for the world's leading companies and help them become more flexible, more innovative and successful. And this is your chance to be part of the success story: we are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to join our Artificial Intelligence & Analytics Team.

About Cognizant Digital Business – Artificial Intelligence & Analytics

We help our customers leverage Artificial Intelligence and analytics in building technology solutions to improve the quality of human life. We are the market leaders in the data and analytic space with 22,000+ information & data management, AI and analytics professional helping more than 650+ customers across the globe to build and run intelligent businesses, using an AI-first, human-centric, platform driven and design thinking approach

For more information? Please visit https://www.cognizant.com/ai

About role

As a Senior Data Engineer, you will help clients transform their business, mostly driven by digital opportunities and technology. In a typical program, you are working at the intersection of business and technology with a sound understanding of the business drivers and the capabilities of IT and how these can contribute to run an organization better or different.

You will be working in a fast-paced Agile environment and expected to facilitate, guide, and influence the clients and teams towards right information technology architecture and becoming interface between Business leadership, Tech leadership and the delivery teams. You would be expected to complex design and high performance architecture in AWS and Big Data technologies

Our ideal candidate:

• Over all 10+ years of IT experience
• At least 4-5 years’ experience in Big Data tools/technologies: Python, Scala/Java, Spark and other data processing technologies
• At least 3+ years’ experience in AWS Cloud tools/technologies: S3, EMR, EC2, Lambda.
• At least 2+ years’ experience in any Big Data Orchestration/Scheduling tool like Airflow,
• At least 2 years’ experience in any CICD tool like Jenkins, CircleCI and exposure to Github/Bitbucket.
• At least 1-year+ experience in any DWH-on-Cloud solution like Redshift, Snowflake etc.
• Experience in developing cloud native application (API based) would be good to have
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Good experience in working in Agile with Agile mind-set and innovative

What you can expect (use below or add specifics to your team)

• Become part of a the ‘flag ship’ success story - We go through enormous growth!
• Based in the Benelux – we have offices in Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Brussels within an European and Global network
• Organization driven by technology – We have a tremendous technology backbone

• Open, ‘can do’ team spirit
• Environment where you can make your own ideas reality
• Drive your own career
• Market conform benefits

About Cognizant

Cognizant is one of the world’s leading professional services companies, transforming clients’ business, operating and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant, a member of the NASDAQ-100, is ranked 205 on the Fortune 500 and is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world.