Senior Data Engineer
São Paulo-SP, Brazil or Porto Alegre-RS, Brazil
Who We Are
In 2021, Poatek was acquired by WillowTree, an award-winning digital product consultancy recognized as one of the fastest growing and best places to work in the United States. Now a TELUS Digital, with offices across the globe, we continue to partner with the world’s leading brands, such as HBO, PepsiCo, Domino’s and more, to design, build, and transform their digital products and strategies. We’re looking to grow our Poatek offices in Brazil with top talent excited to collaborate with team members across the globe to deliver innovative solutions for our clients.
Location and Flexibility
This is a hybrid role. This model requires the ability to work in a hybrid mode from one of our offices in São Paulo (2 times/ week or 8 days/ month) or Porto Alegre (3 times/ week or 12 days/ month). Our office culture is designed to foster in-person innovation, collaboration, and connection with team members local and visiting from other global offices.
The Opportunity
As a Data Engineer part of our growing Data Science team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining robust and scalable data pipelines, enabling efficient data integration, storage, and processing across our various data sources. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and other technical stakeholders, to ensure data quality and support data-driven decision-making.
Responsibilities
- Develop and optimize scalable, high-performing, secure, and reliable data pipelines that address diverse business needs and considerations
- Identify opportunities to enhance internal processes, implement automation to streamline manual tasks, and contribute to infrastructure redesign
- Act as a guide and mentor to junior engineers, supporting their professional growth and fostering an inclusive working environment
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data quality and support data-driven decision-making to strive for greater functionality in our data systems
- Collaborate with project managers and product owners to assist in prioritizing, estimating, and planning development tasks
- Provide constructive feedback, and share expertise with fellow team members, fostering mutual growth and learning
- Engage in ongoing research and adoption of new technologies, libraries, frameworks, and best practices to enhance the capabilities of the data team
- Demonstrate a commitment to accessibility and ensure that your work considers and positively impacts others
Qualifications
- BSc, MSc, and/or PhD in Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, CS, or another related subject
- Experience in technology-related fields, which can be industry and/or academic research (e.g. BI, Software, Data Science, Data Engineering)
- At least 3 years of experience as Data Engineer
- Have actively participated in the design and development of data architectures
- Hands-on experience in developing and optimizing data pipelines
- Experience working with databases and data modeling projects, as well as practical experience utilizing SQL
- Effective English communication - able to explain technical and non-technical concepts to different audiences
- Experience with a general-purpose programming language such as Python or Scala
- Ability to work well in teams and interact effectively with others
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple tasks simultaneously while meeting deadlines
Bonus Points
- Cloud platforms and services, such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
- Big data tools such as Hadoop, Spark or Kafka
- Orchestration tools such as Airflow
- NoSQL databases
- Containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes
- Agile development environment and familiarity with Agile methodologies
Why Poatek / WillowTree?
In addition to being part of an international and innovative consultancy company, you will have:
- Flexible hours and autonomy
- Work with cutting edge technologies
- Partner with global and relevant brands in the market
- Collaborative team and learning ecosystem
- Career development plan & growth
- Internacional travel opportunities (optional)
Some of our benefits:
- Health and dental plan
- Life insurance
- Monthly voucher for meals, culture, education, health and mobility
- Child care assistance and more!
We will only use the information you provide to process your application and to produce tracking statistics. Since we do not request personal data deemed sensitive, we ask you to abstain from sharing those information with us.
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What We Do
We help our clients realize the potential of rapidly evolving mobile technologies, from developing a mobile strategy to launching mobile products. Our unique team permits us to address our clients concerns at the highest strategic level, while ensuring that all recommendations are presented in the context of real-world build costs and timelines. We then have the expertise to take the strategy through the mobile product design, development, testing, launch and growth phases. Our main areas of focus are:
- App Development
- Web Development
- OTT Development
- Digital Product Strategy
- Digital Product Design
- Growth
- Voice Technology
We serve Fortune 500 clients such as 21st Century Fox, Synchrony Financial, ABInBev, PepsiCo, Alliant Credit Union, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, Regal Cinemas, and National Geographic.
WillowTree, LLC was founded in 2007 with offices in Charlottesville, VA and Durham, NC, Brooklyn, NY, and Columbus, OH.
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