Seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile, or Argentina for Senior-Level Data Platform Engineering Services.
Scope of Services:
- As a Contractor you will work alongside app developers and data stakeholders to create data system changes and to respond to data inquires
- You will contribute to initiatives and assist in problem definition scoping, design, and planning through epics and blueprints.
- Utilize your domain knowledge to develop documentation, participate in technical presentations, discussions, and incident reviews.
- You will build and maintain data pipelines and DAG tooling
- You will establish and maintain a data catalog with business-related metadata
Skills & Experience:
- At least 5 years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or a related field.
- Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, and relational datastores (columnar and row databases)
- Proficiency in building and maintaining data pipelines and DAG tooling (Dagster, Airflow, etc)
- Experience with event-based pipelines and CDC tooling.
- Experience in managing data migrations in relational datastores.
- Experience in optimizing SQL query performance.
- Experience with data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores align with expected business logic
- Experience with DBT orchestration and best practices
- Experience with enabling monitoring, health checks and alerting on data systems and pipelines
- Experience establishing and maintaining a data catalog with business-related metadata
- Experience building tools and automation to run data infrastructure
- Experience with writing and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure for data pipelines (AWS, GCP and Terraform) is a plus
- Experience in document, graph or schema-less datastores is a plus
Please note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.
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