Data engineers and AI/ML engineers are among the highest-paying technical roles in Hyderabad — and in 2026 the line between them is blurring. Companies want a Data + AI Engineer: someone who builds the pipeline, trains the model, deploys it, and builds a GenAI interface on top. Cloud Soft Solutions' HORIZON program covers this complete stack.
Data + AI engineer salaries in Hyderabad 2026
| Role | Salary (illustrative) |
|---|---|
| Data Engineer (Spark + Kafka) | Rs.6–16 LPA |
| Senior Data Engineer (multi-cloud) | Rs.14–26 LPA |
| ML Engineer | Rs.10–24 LPA |
| LLM / GenAI Engineer | Rs.14–32 LPA |
| Agentic AI Data Engineer | Rs.18–40 LPA |
The complete 6-month Data + AI curriculum
- Data engineering core: Kafka, Spark/PySpark, Airflow, dbt, Delta Lake, Iceberg, Flink CEP.
- Multi-cloud platforms: AWS (S3/Glue/Athena/Redshift/EMR/SageMaker), Azure (ADF/Synapse/Databricks/Fabric), GCP (BigQuery/Dataproc/Pub-Sub/Vertex AI/Gemini).
- Analytics + BI: Tableau, Power BI (DAX + RLS), Looker, Superset, NL2SQL.
- AI/ML + MLOps: scikit-learn, XGBoost, PyTorch, HuggingFace, MLflow, Kubeflow, Feast, Seldon, VLLM, RAGAS, LangFuse.
- Agentic AI for data: LangGraph pipeline agent that auto-repairs Airflow DAGs, CrewAI report agents, NL2SQL over BigQuery/Redshift, and an MCP server exposing data APIs to Claude.
- Governance + security: DataHub, Purview, Great Expectations, GDPR/CCPA, row-level security.
Companies hiring HORIZON graduates in Hyderabad
Google BigQuery, Amazon Redshift + SageMaker teams, Microsoft Azure Data, Flipkart data engineering, Swiggy ML, Razorpay data platform, Databricks India, TCS AI+ML and Accenture Data+AI — among 200+ hiring partners.
Fee & enrolment
Your Rs.15,000 per month covers accommodation, meals and full training during the 6-month residential program (Rs.90,000 over 6 months). The one-time Rs.60,000 program fee is payable only after you're placed — so you begin with no large upfront cost. Prefer to study as a day scholar instead of living in? See the same six programs as the classroom + online Programs (Rs.10,000/month). Salary figures reflect market ranges and are not guaranteed; placement support is included, placement is not guaranteed and depends on individual interview performance.
Enroll in the 2026 batch
Seats are limited (20–30 per cohort). Call or WhatsApp +91 96660 19191, email hello@cloudsoftsol.com, or explore the residential programs, the classroom + online programs and our entrepreneurship program. View all courses.
Frequently asked questions
What is the fee for the data engineering + AI/ML course in Hyderabad?
The residential HORIZON program is Rs.15,000/month (accommodation + meals + training, Rs.90,000 over 6 months) with Rs.60,000 payable only after placement. A day-scholar Programs option is available at Rs.10,000/month.
What tools will I learn?
Apache Spark, Kafka, Flink, Airflow, dbt, Delta Lake/Iceberg, plus AWS (Glue/Athena/Redshift/EMR/SageMaker), Azure (Synapse/Databricks/Fabric) and GCP (BigQuery/Dataflow/Vertex AI), and AI/MLOps (MLflow, Kubeflow, VLLM, LangGraph, NL2SQL).
Which certifications does HORIZON target?
AWS Data Engineer DEA-C01, AWS ML Engineer MLA-C01, Google Professional Data/ML Engineer, DP-203, Databricks Spark & ML, dbt Analytics Engineering and Snowflake SnowPro Core, among others.
