Senior Data Engineer

Cognizant · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams · Python · 2 days ago
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≈ $59k – $115k per year (Estimated)
Location
Hybrid (Burgess Hill, United Kingdom)
Seniority
Senior
Employment
Full-Time

Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 29, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 27, 2026. Cognizant scores A on the Alion truth index.

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Cognizant

Cognizant is an American information technology services and consulting company founded in 1994 as an in-house technology unit of Dun and Bradstreet in Chennai, India, and headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey. It builds, integrates and operates software and infrastructure for large enterprises, with particularly deep positions in healthcare, financial services, insurance and life sciences, delivered by a global workforce of more than three hundred thousand people concentrated in India. Listed on Nasdaq, the company competes with the large Indian and global systems integrators and has reoriented its offerings around cloud migration, data platforms and AI-assisted engineering.
cognizant.com · HQ: Teaneck, United States · Cloud Consulting & Migration · Engineering Services · IT Outsourcing & Dedicated Teams · IT Consulting & Digital Transformation · Systems Integrators · 5000+ employees · Est. 1994
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Role: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Burgess Hill, Hybrid (3 days a week)

Employment: Fulltime

Required skill set:

Senior hands-on Data/Database Engineer with strong expertise in Oracle and PostgreSQL, plus practical experience with Cassandra, MongoDB, and/or Couchbase.

Strong experience in database engineering, performance tuning, schema deployment, high availability, resilience, security and troubleshooting across enterprise environments.

Strong automation/DevOps mindset, using Ansible, Terraform, Python/Shell, Infrastructure as Code, Git and CI/CD to automate database provisioning and deployments.

Experience working closely with Application Teams and Data Architects on new initiatives, database migrations, modernisation, and production deployments, rather than a traditional DBA-only role.

Preferably experienced in financial services/banking or regulated environments.

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