Contractor: Lead Data Engineering Services (Brazil or Argentina) - Newsela

Seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Brazil or Argentina for Lead-Level Data 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 Lead initiatives and problem definition scoping, design, and planning through epics and blueprints. 
• With your deep domain knowledge and radiation of that knowledge you will develop documentation, technical presentation, discussion, 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:

• Mastered proficiency in SQL, Python, and relational datastores (columnar and row databases)
• Proficiency in building and maintaining data pipelines and DAG tooling (Dagster, Airflow, etc)
• Advanced experience with event-based pipelines and CDC tooling
• Advanced experience in managing large-scale data migrations in relational datastores
• Advanced experience in optimizing SQL query performance
• Advanced experience with data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores are aligned 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. 

Last updated: 18 hours ago