Cognizant

Cloud Data Engineer

Cognizant
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9 days ago
Sydney, AustraliaMid Level

Base Salary

$80k - $90k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Build and maintain scalable cloud data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and storage.
  • Integrate customer data from multiple sources into unified profiles.
  • Create metadata-driven frameworks for data quality, consistency, governance, and lineage.
  • Write PySpark and Spark SQL scripts for complex, efficient, and scalable data transformations.
  • Fix ETL errors, improve resiliency, and maintain data integrity across reports and dashboards.
  • Monitor data platforms, respond to alerts, perform root cause analysis, and optimize efficiency and cost.
  • Coordinate design reviews, implementation walkthroughs, production deployments, and delivery activities.
  • Collaborate with stakeholders, architects, onsite teams, and offshore teams to capture requirements and deliver solutions.
  • Apply security, compliance, and governance practices to data platforms.
  • Use Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket for project management, documentation, and collaboration.
  • Lead projects through planning, prioritization, and team coordination.

Requirements

  • Expertise in data engineering with Azure Data Lake Storage, Azure Blob Storage, Hadoop, HDFS, Hive, PySpark, and SQL Server.
  • Experience with Azure and AWS cloud platforms.
  • Proficiency with Python, SQL, Shell Scripting, Git, Bitbucket, PyCharm, and VS Code.
  • Experience with Control-M and Sterling B2B Integrator for automation and scheduling.
  • Knowledge of Postman and API testing.
  • Ability to monitor platforms, analyze Spark logs, and perform root cause analysis.
  • Understanding of security best practices, compliance requirements, and data governance.
  • Banking or BFSI domain knowledge.
  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate certification.

Tech Stack

Apache HadoopApache HiveApache SparkAWSAzureDatabricksGitMicrosoft SQL ServerPostmanPythonSQL

Categories

Data Engineering
Cognizant

About Cognizant

10,000+ employees

Cognizant is a public IT services and consulting firm that designs, builds, and runs enterprise technology, including digital engineering, cloud modernization, data/AI, and managed services. It sells consulting, systems integration, and outsourcing on multi-year engagements to large enterprises in healthcare, banking, retail, communications, and manufacturing. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, Cognizant is NASDAQ-listed (CTSH) and a Fortune 500 company.

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