Lead AWS Pyspark Engineer

About Cognizant Artificial Intelligence:

Digital technologies, including analytics and AI, give companies a once-in-a-generation opportunity to perform orders of magnitude better than ever before. But clients need new business models built from analyzing customers and business operations at every angle to really understand them. With the power to apply artificial intelligence and data science to business decisions via enterprise data management solutions, we help leading companies prototype, refine, validate and scale the most desirable products and delivery models to enterprise scale within weeks.

The Role:

Cognizant is looking for an experienced and innovative Lead AWS Pyspark Data Engineer to serve our diverse base of global clients. As a member of our team, you will build cutting edge, cloud-based software that powers modern business. An ideal candidate is someone who enjoys working in a diverse, collaborative, geographically distributed team. Similarly, the ideal candidate is an expert engineer who values the “team”, drives continuous improvement and is unafraid to challenge the legacy status quo with creative cloud-based solutions.

Responsibilities:

Create, build, and deploy new AWS solutions in support of data integration and data delivery.

Collaborate with technical lead, product owners, architects, and other project team members to create and test robust, re-usable patterns.

Understand, diagnose, and resolve technical and production incident issues.

Monitor and validate deployments to confirm expected behavior.

Collect and implement software application requirements defined by business users, architects.

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, MIS or equivalent combination of education and experience

8+ years of experience as Data Engineer on AWS with good knowledge in S3, Athena, Glue, PySpark, Redshift, CloudWatch

Solid experience of AWS services such as S3, Athena, Glue, Spark, RDS, Redshift, Step Functions, CloudWatch

Solid experience building solutions on AWS data lake/data warehouse

Analyze, design, development, and implementation of data ingestion pipeline in AWS

Knowledge implementing ETL/ELT for data solutions.

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this position is between $[100,000 – 125,000] depending on the experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant’s applicable plans.

Benefits:

Cognizant offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:

Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance

Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off

401(k) plan and contributions

Long-term/Short-term Disability

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Disclaimer:

The salary, other compensation, and benefits information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.