Skill: Astronomer, Airflow

Experience: 6 to 9 Years

Location : AIA – Kolkata

Job Description

Role
Responsibilities:

• Review, optimize, and tune data ingestion and extraction pipelines orchestrated by Airflow.
• Development of frameworks to manage and engineer a large number of pipelines for the entire domain.
• Build architecture, data flow, and operational diagrams and documents, with detailed physical and logical layers.
• Provide reference implementations of various activities, including composing data pipelines in Airflow, implementing new Airflow features, or integrating Airflow with 3rd party solutions.
• Keep up with the latest Astro and Airflow features, in order to better advise the technologies on impactful improvements they can make.
• Collaborate to build reusable assets, automation tools, and documented best practices.
• Interact with Domain and Engineering teams to channel product feedback and requirements discussions.
• Work with technology team members to ensure that are realizing value in their Airflow and Astronomer journeys.
  

Requirements:

• 3+ years of Data Architect with Airflow / Astronomer.
• Experience with Apache Airflow in production environments.
• Experience in designing and implementing ETL, Data Warehousing, and ML/AI use cases.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Knowledge of Azure cloud-native data architecture.
• Demonstrated technical leadership on team projects.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Willingness to learn new technologies and build reference implementations.
• Experience in migrating workflows from legacy schedulers (Tidal) to Apache Airflow.
• Experience in integrating with Azure Data Factory pipelines.
• Snowflake and Databricks experience.
• Experience working with containers.
• SQL experience.
• Kubernetes experience, either on-premise or in the cloud.
• Enterprise data experience in regulated environments.
  

The Cognizant community:
We are a high caliber team who appreciate and support one another. Our people uphold an energetic, collaborative and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive.

• Cognizant is a global community with more than 300,000 associates around the world.
• We don’t just dream of a better way – we make it happen.
• We take care of our people, clients, company, communities and climate by doing what’s right.
• We foster an innovative environment where you can build the career path that’s right for you.

About us:
Cognizant is one of the world's leading professional services companies, transforming clients' business, operating, and technology models for the digital era. Our unique industry-based, consultative approach helps clients envision, build, and run more innovative and efficient businesses. Headquartered in the U.S., Cognizant (a member of the NASDAQ-100 and one of Forbes World’s Best Employers 2025) is consistently listed among the most admired companies in the world. Learn how Cognizant helps clients lead with digital at www.cognizant.com

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. Your application and candidacy will not be considered based on race, color, sex, religion, creed, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

Disclaimer: 
Compensation information is accurate as of the date of this posting. Cognizant reserves the right to modify this information at any time, subject to applicable law.

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