Data Platform Engineering Lead – AITDS (Cognizant) | Hyderabad | Salary Based on Profile

Cognizant is hiring a hands-on technical lead to build AI-ready enterprise data platforms, scalable pipelines, lakehouse architectures and backend integration services.

Job Highlights

• Company: Cognizant
• Role: Data Platform Engineering Lead
• Location: Hyderabad
• Experience: 8+ years
• Work Mode: Hybrid
• Salary: Based on Profile
• Domain: Data Platforms and AI

Roles & Responsibilities

• Build batch and streaming data pipelines.
• Develop AI-ready datasets and feature pipelines.
• Create backend services and APIs using Python.
• Implement microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Enable model-training and inference workflows.
• Support RAG, embeddings and vectorisation use cases.
• Build cloud data lakes and lakehouse solutions.
• Implement CI/CD, observability and data-quality controls.
• Guide metadata, lineage and governance practices.
• Mentor data engineers.

Required Skills

• Python
• Spark or PySpark
• ETL and ELT
• FastAPI or equivalent
• Data lakes and lakehouses
• AWS, Azure or GCP
• Docker and Kubernetes
• CI/CD

Preferred Skills

• LLM and GenAI integration
• Feature stores
• Metadata and governance tools