Cognizant

AB INITIO DEVELOPER

Posted on: 15 Sep 2021

Chicago, IL

Job Description

Role/Required Qualifications:

Participate in the agile development process
Develop functional and technical specifications from business requirements for the commercial platform
  Ensure application quality and adherence to performance requirements
Help create project estimates and plans. Represent engineering team in project meetings and solution discussions
Provide leadership in the code review process

Work with team members to achieve business results in a fast paced and quickly changing environment

Pair up with junior data engineers to provide technical guidance while developing analytic applications leveraging technologies such as: Hadoop, NoSQL, In-memory Data Grids, Kafka, Spark, Ab Initio.
Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field (such as Engineering, Computer Science, Statistics, Econometrics) and a minimum of 10 years’ experience
Minimum 5 years’ experience working with and developing big data solutions using Agile scrum
Expert in the following Ab Initio tools:  GDE – Graphical Development Environment; Co>Operating System ; Control Center; Metadata Hub; Enterprise Meta>Environment; Enterprise Meta>Environment Portal; Acquire>It; Express>It; Conduct>It; Data Quality Environment; Query>It.
Hands-on experience on writing shell scripts, complex SQL queries, Hadoop commands, Linux and Git
Ability to write abstracted, reusable code components.

Cognizant

Teaneck, NJ

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp. provides information technology consulting and technology services in North America, Europe, and Asia. These include business-process, it, strategy, and technology consulting; application design, development, integration, and re-engineering; complex custom-systems development; data warehousing/business intelligence; customer relationship management (crm) and enterprise-resource planning (erp) system implementation; and software-testing services.

The company also offers outsourcing services, including application, crm, and erp maintenance, and it infrastructure and business-process outsourcing. Cognizant Tech offers its services to markets such as financial services, health care, manufacturing, retail and logistics, telecommunications, information services, media, and high tech. The company was founded in 1994 and is based in Teaneck, N.J.