Data Engineer

Cognizant • Full-time • Mettawa, Illinois, United States • $73k / year • 1d ago

Data Engineer

Position Overview

A Data Engineer in Cognizant’s AIA (AI & Analytics) practice brings relevant context to data for business and IT for intelligent systems and critical decisions. They work within the domains of data management, to integrate high-variation and/or high-velocity data to produce answers and enable clients to ask an entirely new class of questions. They will use a variety of tools and techniques to deliver better, faster, and intelligent data to some of the world’s most successful businesses – our clients.

Responsibilities

Build and deliver data pipelines to store data in a way that is accessible, performant, secure, and sustainable
Prototype solutions, prepare test scripts, and conduct tests for data replication, extraction, loading, cleansing, and data modeling for data warehouses
Review and validate data loaded into data lakes/warehouses for accuracy
Develop proofs of concept and evaluate design options to deliver ingestion, search, metadata cataloging and scheduling of data pipelines
Data engineering in line with standard processes and Cognizant’s reference architecture
Understand and detail technical use case requirements to deliver data movement and transformation solutions

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in IT-related field and 0-3 years of IT experience
Strong business interpersonal skills (including written and oral)
Programming experience with Python, Python Pyspark or Java development for modern data engineering
Strong background in relational data models
Exposure in Data Pipelines & SQL / NoSQL (e.g. Cassandra, HBase) and Relational Database management systems
Exposure to implementing PaaS services on public clouds - Azure, AWS, GCP, Databricks, Snowflake, SingleStore, Oracle, Informatica
Strong problem solving and analytical thinking skills

Distinguishing Qualifications

Full Data lifecycle development experience
Industry experience (financial services, insurance, retail, healthcare, life sciences, communications)
Experience in developing and deploying distributed computing applications using Open Source or cloud native services.
Shown understanding of data applications including Hadoop components (HDFS, HBase, Hive, Sqoop, Flume, etc.)
Exposure to data analytics and data mining tools/applications such as Tableau, QlikSense /QlikView, R or SAS
Exposure to working with SQL, Relational Database Management Systems (e.g., SQL Server, Oracle)
Development workflows (e.g., Microsoft VSTS)
Experience leading teams

Location(s)

New hires will be deployed to specific client sites and those locations will be discussed through the application process. While Cognizant will make reasonable efforts to accommodate your location preference, please note that final assignments will be based on business needs and regional relocation may be required.

Start Date(s)

New hires will start in October 2025. While we will attempt to honor candidate start date preferences, business need and position availability will determine final start date assignment. Exact start dates will be communicated with enough time for you to plan effectively.

Why Choose Us?

Cognizant delivers solutions that draw upon the full power and scale of our associates. You will be supported by high-caliber experts and employ some of the most sophisticated and patented capabilities. Our associate’s backgrounds offer varied perspectives and fuel new ways of thinking. We encourage lively discussions which inspire better results for our clients.

If you’re comfortable with ambiguity, excited by change, and excel through autonomy, we’d love to hear from you!

Salary and Other Compensation:

The annual salary for this role is $73,000.00 depending on 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: