AWS Data Engineer

Cognizant Singapore

Posted 3 days ago Permanent Competitive

Title: AWS Data Engineer

Location: Singapore

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and operate end-to-end data pipelines (ingestion → transformation → serving) on Databricks and/or Snowflake, following medallion/layered architecture patterns
Configure and administer workspaces/accounts - compute policies, resource sizing, environment setup, and access hierarchy - per the SDP reference architecture
Implement data governance controls: catalogue and schema design, RBAC, row/column-level security, data masking, and lineage tracking
Set up CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code for pipeline deployment and environment promotion (dev → test → prod)
Configure monitoring, telemetry, and audit logging to meet SDP's central observability and security posture requirements
Support UAT, integration testing, and parallel-run validation during migration and go-live
Produce handover documentation (runbooks, access lists, escalation procedures) for agency operations teams

Required Technical Skills - Databricks

Unity Catalog - catalogue/schema design, access control, and data lineage
Lakeflow / Delta Live Tables for pipeline orchestration; Delta Lake table format
Databricks SQL and cluster/workspace administration (compute policies, pools, cost management)
Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) and Databricks Repos for CI/CD
PySpark / Spark SQL for large-scale data transformation
Working knowledge of Databricks system tables (audit logs, billing/usage, query history) for observability
Minimum 5 years of hands-on experience in Data Engineering, Data Platform Engineering, or related disciplines.
Minimum 3 years of hands-on experience with Databricks involving data pipeline development, platform administration, governance, and optimization.

Required Technical Skills - Common

Strong SQL and Python (PySpark or general-purpose) for data engineering
Data modeling - dimensional design, star/snowflake schemas, semantic layers
CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) for data engineering workflows
Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform preferred) for provisioning cloud data platform resources
Hands-on experience on at least one hyperscaler - AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
Understanding of data security and compliance frameworks

Preferred Qualifications

Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate/Professional
SnowPro Core, or SnowPro Advanced: Data Engineer
AWS certification (e.g. AWS Certified Data Engineer - Associate, Solutions Architect) and hands-on experience with AWS data services.
Prior experience delivering on a regulated-sector data platform, or exposure to compliance frameworks such as IM8, is an add-on
Experience working as part of a System Integrator (SI) delivery team alongside a platform Principal is an add-on

Job ID 00070354841

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