Contractor: Lead Data Engineering Services

Contractor: Lead Data Engineering Services

Seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Mexico 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. 

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