Description
This in-person position is open to any qualified applicant in the United States.
A qualified applicant must be open to relocation to Plano, Texas.
Preference is for a qualified applicant to relocate, but is open to remote.
Practice – AIA – Artificial Intelligence and Analytics
About AI & Analytics: Artificial intelligence (AI) and the data it collects and analyzes will soon sit at the core of all intelligent, human-centric businesses. By decoding customer needs, preferences, and behaviors, our clients can understand exactly what services, products, and experiences their consumers need. Within AI & Analytics, we work to design the future-a future in which trial-and-error business decisions have been replaced by informed choices and data-supported strategies!
By applying AI and data science, we help leading companies to prototype, refine, validate, and scale their AI and analytics products and delivery models! Cognizant’s AIA practice takes insights that are buried in data and provide businesses with a clear way to transform how they source, interpret, and consume their information. Our clients need flexible data structures and a streamlined data architecture that quickly turns data resources into informative, meaningful intelligence.
Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Perform data analysis and understand existing business requirements
- Build data mapping documents before coding with the provided requirements
- Work independently and guide other new team members end-to-end from development to unit testing to UAT and production deployment/cut ensuring quality
- Work independently in agile scrum methodology
- Write SQL queries for any given problem statement
- Work with cloud-native services like RedShift, Databricks, EMR, Glue ETL, Redshift, and Dynamo DB
Position Qualifications:
- At least 5 years of experience in AWS Cloud, AWS IAM, Big Data tools, and technologies
- Required skills: Spark
- Nice to have skills: AWS Big Data, Redshift, Big Data, Databricks, and Apache Spark
- Need to have a good understanding of cloud terminologies in AWS and have a good grasp of all basic AWS services (e.g. S3/IAM etc..)
- Programming knowledge in Scala, Java, or Python (preferably Scala)
- Good understanding of Spark concepts – RDD/Data frames/Datasets/Streaming and experience with coding in Scala is preferred
- Any experience with Talend Big Data would be an added advantage
Salary and Other Compensation:
The annual salary for this position is between $67,000- $87,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
This position is also eligible for Cognizant’s discretionary annual incentive program and stock awards, based on performance and is 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.
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