Data Engineer at Cognizant in Plano, Texas

Job Description:

We are 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

*You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future *

• Extensive knowledge on designing the jobs in Hadoop system with Spark and Scala and should be able to prepare the Technical design document


• Extensive knowledge on data processing using Spark and Scala on Hadoop system


• Person must be able to understand the business transformation rules provided by the business users and should be able to convert them into Spark code


• Person will be responsible for developing new jobs using Spark and Scala programming


• Person will also responsible for testing the developed jobs and preparing test documents


• Experience on optimizing the performance of the Spark jobs


• Excellent communication skill both verbal and written with overseas client handling experience


• Resource should be able to understand the requirement and create functional and technical design


• 5-8 Years of work experience on the Hadoop systems with good understanding and knowledge of Hadoop cluster


• Person must have good data analytical skill


• Hands on python programming


• Good knowledge and extensive experience in SQL


• Minimum 5-8 years experience with Java


• Must have experience in one or more ETL software tools Talend  SSIS  Informatica  DataStage - ODI Talend experience is an advantage


• Must have minimum 5 years experience with software delivery implementations and working with customers


• Excellent communication and presentation skills


• Excellent analytical capabilities


• Experience with Big Data technologies is an advantage


• Ability to work on multiple projects concurrently


• Must be able to work effectively with project managers and team members to provide support as both an independent operator and team player


• Technology Experience Big Data  Hadoop  Hive  Impala  HBase  Apache Solr  ETL  Talend  SSIS  Informatica  DataStage  ODI  SQL  PostgreSQL  MS SQL  Oracle  other  Programming Languages  Java  Python

Technical Skills