Senior Data Developer
New
C
CI&THigher education
Listing location: Brazil; Workplace type: Remote; Structured job location: Brazil, Strong overlap with US business hoursFull-TimeSenior
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Job Details
- Languages
- Advanced/fluent English (C1 or above)
- Required Skills
- PostgreSQLSQLMicrosoft SQL ServerdbtDatabricksPySpark
Requirements
- Advanced/fluent English (C1 or above).
- Expert SQL (T-SQL and/or ANSI), including stored procedures, window functions, CTEs, indexing, and execution plans.
- Solid experience with relational databases; SQL Server or Azure SQL preferred, or PostgreSQL or similar.
- Hands-on production experience with Databricks, PySpark, Delta Lake, and dbt.
- Solid experience with dimensional modeling (Kimball) and data warehouse design.
- Experience with Git, CI/CD for database changes, and Jira.
- Nice to have: Unity Catalog administration or a Databricks Data Engineer Associate or Professional certification.
- Nice to have: experience with Databricks Workflows, Airflow, ADF, or Fivetran.
- Nice to have: experience with Great Expectations or dbt tests, and exposure to Power BI or Tableau.
- Nice to have: experience with regulated data, including education, healthcare, or privacy regulations such as LGPD.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and tune schemas, stored procedures, views, functions, and indexes.
- Analyze query plans and lead database performance work.
- Build and maintain Databricks pipelines using PySpark and Spark SQL, and dbt models using Kimball dimensional modeling.
- Support transactional SQL databases used by applications and lakehouse models used for analytics.
- Manage data access and lineage in Unity Catalog; implement quality checks, source-to-target reconciliation, masking, and row-level access.
- Version database changes in Git, deploy through CI/CD, and review peers' SQL.
- Take over existing schemas and jobs, document data models and runbooks, and support incident resolution and root-cause analysis.
- Work with the Data Architect on modeling standards and application developers on API and data contracts.
- Mentor mid-level developers and explain technical trade-offs to client architects.
- Coordinate with North American stakeholders and teams in Brazil and Colombia, maintaining overlap with US business hours.
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