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Kafka + Java + Data Engineer

Cognizant

  • Location Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
  • Job type Full-time
  • Work mode Hybrid
  • Salary Not disclosed
  • Posted

Job overview

Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Job type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Salary
Not disclosed
Category
IT & Technology
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Company
Cognizant
Role
Kafka + Java + Data Engineer
Location
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Employment type
Full-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Category
IT & Technology
Posted
19 Jul 2026
Valid through
15 Oct 2026

About the role

Kafka + Java + Data Engineer

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India

Work model: Hybrid

Employment type: Full-time

Date published: July 19, 2026

Kafka + Java + Data Engineers:

  • Extensive experience designing and developing streaming pipelines, data platform to handle high volume data processing, distributed system for both batch and realtime
  • Strong Expertise in– Java, Kafka and Hadoop ecosystem (Spark, Hive, YARN, HDFS), Scala, Cassandra, Linux (on prem), CI-CD (Jenkins, Github), Obs (Dynatrace).
  • Design and implement real-time streaming pipelines using Kafka
  • Develop producers and consumers for high-throughput, fault-tolerant systems
  • Responsible for both development and strong expertise to debug and fix any post production issues
  • Implement Kafka-based event-driven architectures
  • Experience with Databricks, Azure Cloud PaaS Services, Azure Data Factory, ADLS, Kubernetes, GitHub, Docker, and CI/CD workflows
  • Experience in scripting, ETL (Pandas, Pola.rs, PySpark, Ibis), SQL, and NoSQL databases (Cassandra, MongoDB)
  • Understanding of system architecture concepts: distributed systems, caching, replication, data modeling
  • Leads : Role is 70% of time in Design, Architect, Coding and 30% of time in team mentoring, guidance, coordination
  • Responsible for both development and strong expertise to debug and fix any post production issues for their developed code
  • Interview ask : To write optimal code (in Java/Kafka/Python/Pyspark) in timeboxed period for scenario given (covering data quality, transformation) without AI tool and code to be accurate. To resolve code issue for a bug introduced in sample code
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience working in Agile environments; familiarity with cloud platforms
  • Experience with orchestration tools (e.g. NiFi, Griffin, Hamilton, Airflow)
  • Functional experience of Retail Banking, capital markets, securities processing will be advantage

About Cognizant

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Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) is an AI Builder and technology services provider headquartered in Teaneck, New Jersey, United States, with a major delivery presence across India including Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Pune.
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