Description
Principal Data Engineer - MK - 102262
Team: Engineering
Location: Argentina, Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Uruguay
Commitment: Contractor
Workplace Type: remote
As a Principal Data Engineer, you will be a senior technical leader responsible for architecting, building, and operating foundational systems of the enterprise data platform. This role drives scalable data processing pipelines, canonical data models, and self-service analytical capabilities that enable faster, data-driven decisions across the business.
You will partner closely with Data Architects and business stakeholders to translate strategy into execution, modernize platform capabilities (Delta Lake, streaming architectures), and enable advanced analytics and machine learning. This position offers technical leadership opportunities, cross‑team influence, and the chance to elevate engineering standards and data quality across the organization.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Data Architects and business partners to design and evolve enterprise data architecture and platform capabilities.
- Translate architectural strategy into technical designs and delivery plans across teams.
- Design, code, and optimize complex distributed data processing systems using Spark, Databricks, and cloud‑native data services.
- Develop canonical data models, semantic structures, and reusable datasets to support reporting and machine learning.
- Drive platform modernization initiatives such as Delta Lake and metadata‑driven design.
- Create reusable frameworks and platform capabilities to accelerate analytics, ML, and governed self‑service data access.
- Lead root‑cause analysis for major data issues and implement long‑term improvements in data quality, lineage, and observability.
- Provide technical leadership, guidance, and mentorship to Staff, Senior, and mid‑level data engineers.
- Influence cross‑organizational roadmaps and engineering investments; participate in architecture reviews and governance forums.
Must Have
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience.
- 10+ years of experience in data engineering or a related technical field.
- Expert proficiency in SQL, Python, and Spark for large‑scale data processing.
- Extensive experience designing and building cloud‑native data pipelines, data models, and distributed data systems (Delta Lake, Spark, Unity Catalog, Jobs, Workflows).
- Experience with Azure (required).
- Strong experience designing and tuning distributed data processing systems at scale.
- Deep knowledge of data engineering best practices including version control, CI/CD, automated testing, DevOps/DataOps, and observability.
- Proven ability to lead cross‑functional technical initiatives and influence architectural direction.
- Strong problem‑solving, debugging, analytical, and collaboration skills; ability to thrive in agile, dynamic teams.
Nice to have
- Experience with Databricks Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, or Databricks Workflows.
- Advanced data modeling skills (dimensional, data vault, semantic layers).
- DataOps experience including pipeline observability, monitoring, and automated quality.
- Experience with metadata management and governance platforms (Unity Catalog, Purview, Collibra, Alation).
- Experience with streaming frameworks used with Spark Structured Streaming (Kafka, Event Hubs, Kinesis).
- Experience contributing to architecture review boards, technical councils, or data governance forums.
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