Senior Data Engineer

Role: Senior Data Engineer

Location: Burgess Hill (3 days in a week)

Employment: Fulltime

Roles and Responsibilities:

• 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.

Cognizant is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.