Sr Data Engineer - Scala

What makes Cognizant a unique place to work? The combination of rapid growth and an international and innovative environment! This is creating many 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. Moreover, 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 AIA
Imagine a business that always stays ahead of market changes, anticipates customer desires, and forecasts faster and more accurately than competitors. This intelligent business knows what is happening and why it is happening, and prescribes the best decisions to make. Now, Cognizant uses Evolutionary AI to model every aspect of a business to solve for multi-objective outcomes in even the most complex conditions.

More information? Please visit https://www.cognizant.com/cognizant-digital-business

About role
As a Senior Data Engineer, you will develop the intelligence and tools that give our customers the information they need to structure their financials. You will share your knowledge with other team members to help them improve and benefit from your learnings. you will get an opportunity to understand the client business requirements and contribute to the design, concentrate on the pure technical solution, learn new technologies, implementation of Web development, and working in agile environment

Our ideal candidate (Key Skills & Experience)

Primary Skills (Must have)

• Java/Scala experience
• DevOps experience (CI/CD, monitoring and troubleshooting of systems)
• Knowledge on Big Data environments and tooling
• Cloud experience
• Spark experience
• Kafka experience
• TDD
• HBO / WO level

Secondary Skills (Good to have)

• REST API
• Scripting languages (Python/Bash)

What you can expect

• Become part of a the ‘flag ship’ success story
• Based in the Benelux – we have offices in Amsterdam, Eindhoven and Brussels within a European and Global network
• Mediator: able to guide the team in adopting the architecture vision and software design principles;
• Negotiation: being able to negotiate trade-offs between non-functional requirements
• Being able to act as a mature sparring partner with the Solution Architect.
• Open, ‘can do’ team spirit
• Environment where you can make your own ideas reality & Drive your own career