Senior Developer- Snowflake Cortex AI

About The Role

As a Senior Developer – Snowflake Cortex AI / Generative AI, you will make an impact by designing and delivering enterprise-scale AI solutions that accelerate business innovation through intelligent automation, advanced analytics, and agentic AI capabilities. You will be a valued member of the Data & AI team and work collaboratively with business stakeholders, architects, data engineers, and AI specialists to build scalable and secure AI-powered applications using Snowflake Cortex AI and modern cloud technologies.

In This Role, You Will

• Design, develop, and deploy enterprise AI solutions utilizing Snowflake Cortex AI, Cortex Agents, Cortex Search, and Cortex Analyst.
• Build and optimize Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, semantic models, and AI-powered analytics capabilities that enable business self-service and intelligent decision-making.
• Develop agentic AI applications that leverage multi-agent orchestration, autonomous task execution, tool integration, and advanced reasoning frameworks.
• Integrate leading foundation models and large language models (LLMs) into business applications while ensuring scalability, security, governance, and compliance.
• Collaborate with business and technology teams to translate requirements into production-ready AI solutions and mentor developers on best practices for Generative AI development.

Work Model

We strive to provide flexibility wherever possible. Based on this role's business requirements, this is a remote position open to qualified applicants in the United States. Regardless of your working arrangement, we are here to support a healthy work-life balance through our various wellbeing programs.

What You Need To Have To Be Considered

• 12+ years of experience in Data Engineering, Analytics, Software Engineering, AI, or related technology disciplines.
• 4+ years of experience building Generative AI and LLM-powered applications.
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Snowflake Cortex AI capabilities.
• Strong expertise in Snowflake Architecture, Snowpark Python, Cortex AI, Cortex Agents, Cortex Search, Cortex Analyst, and Cortex AI SQL functions.
• Experience developing Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions, vector search architectures, semantic models, and AI-driven analytics platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Large Language Models (LLMs), prompt engineering, agent orchestration, multi-agent systems, and AI application development.
• Hands-on development experience with Python, REST APIs, FastAPI, Flask, LangChain, and LangGraph.
• Experience building enterprise-grade AI applications with governance, security, compliance, and responsible AI controls.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, GitHub, cloud-native architectures, and software engineering best practices.
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, and technical leadership skills.

These will help you stand out

• Experience integrating OpenAI, Claude, Llama, Mistral, or other foundation models into enterprise applications.
• Knowledge of Knowledge Graphs, Ontologies, Graph Databases, and advanced AI reasoning techniques.
• Experience with Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI agent frameworks, and enterprise AI orchestration platforms.
• Familiarity with Data Mesh, Data Fabric, MLOps, model monitoring, and AI observability practices.
• Experience working with cloud platforms such as AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Relevant certifications such as SnowPro Advanced Certification, Snowflake AI Certifications, Microsoft Azure AI Engineer Associate, AWS Machine Learning Specialty, or Databricks Generative AI Certification.

Pay

• Annual salary between $130,000–$150,000 depending on experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.
• This position is also eligible for Cognizant's discretionary annual incentive program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Cognizant's applicable plans.

Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision/Life Insurance
• Paid holidays plus Paid Time Off
• 401(k) plan and contributions
• Long-term/Short-term Disability
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan