Data Engineer Lead – Tech Lead, Data Engineering

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Establish the team's technical priorities by converting the Head of Data Engineering's business vision into practical technical requirements;

• Mentorship and Code Review: Enhance the team's technical standards through thorough code reviews and ongoing mentoring of data engineers;

• Governance and Standards: Develop Data Quality standards, ensure pipeline observability, and document data lineage;

• Infrastructure Decisions: Spearhead the Infrastructure-as-Code approach (Terraform), guaranteeing uniform development, staging, and production environments;

• Data Culture: Foster a data-driven culture and encourage platform adoption by removing manual processes and silos;

⛳️ Requirements

• Technical Skills:

• - Expertise in large-scale data architecture emphasizing high performance and cost efficiency;

• - Proficient in Python and SQL;

• - Demonstrated experience leading technical data engineering teams;

• - Proven track record in managing, deploying, and maintaining data platforms (Data Warehouse, Data Lakes, and Data Lakehouses);

• - Knowledge of software engineering, including API design, design patterns, and platform maintenance;

• - Tech stack: solid to advanced understanding of Apache Iceberg, AWS (EC2, Glue, Athena, DataZone, Lake Formation), Airflow, Terraform, DBT, Prometheus, and Grafana;

• - Proficient in English (both written and spoken).

• Behavioral Skills:

• - Capacity to foresee how platform changes or new data sources might affect published data and platform architecture;

• - Ability to guide the team in making technical decisions without depending on hierarchical authority;

• - Skill in identifying technical and behavioral improvement opportunities for team members and acting in a compassionate, individualized manner;

• - Clear and objective communication abilities;

• - Autonomy and resilience;

• - Capability to convey technical concepts to a diverse range of stakeholders.

• Differentiators:

• - Experience with complex migrations from legacy data lakes or manual processes to a contemporary Lakehouse;

• - Integrations involving hybrid and multi-cloud environments;

• - Background in Data Governance;

• - Experience encouraging platform adoption within large organizations;

🏝️ Benefits

• CLT employment contract: Your security and full labor rights guaranteed from day one.

• Caju Benefits Card (BRL 1,160): Flexibility to use your balance as you prefer—meal, food, home office, culture, or mobility!

• Remote work — from wherever you are!

• SulAmérica health plan

• SulAmérica dental plan

• SulAmérica life insurance

• Online consultations with specialists via Conexa Saúde telemedicine

• Wellhub: support to help you perform at your best

• Extended year-end break: celebrate the holidays with more peace of mind

• Birthday day off: a special day of rest during your birthday month

• Extended parental leave: support and quality time for those growing their families

• Continuous professional development: access to top platforms like LinkedIn Learning, plus an annual allowance for courses and training

• University partnerships: support to go further through discounts and giveaways

• Libras training: learn Brazilian Sign Language to better support our community

• English language support: we encourage language learning through partnerships

• Work equipment shipped to you as part of your onboarding kit.