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Lead Data Engineer

8 hours, 17 minutes ago
Colombia
Contract
Lead
Data Engineer
Software Development
Apache Spark CI/CD Databricks Git GitHub Actions Python SQL
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Media.Monks

Media.Monks

Media.Monks is a disruptive global powerhouse connecting content, data, and digital media services to lead brands into a new digital era.

Media
5K-10K
Founded 2001
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Description

  • Lead the end-to-end migration of legacy Python/Spark ETL configurations into modular dbt Core models.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentorship, code reviews, and delivery guidance to data engineers.
  • Partner with client engineers to define migration priorities, technical standards, and implementation plans.
  • Reverse-engineer Python ETL logic and develop scalable dbt SQL models, staging layers, and Jinja macros.
  • Design shared macros, dimension tables, and medium- to high-complexity domain models.
  • Implement dbt sources, incremental models, and schema.yml tests, including not_null, unique, and relationships tests.
  • Validate output parity between modernized dbt models and legacy production pipelines.
  • Establish standards for model design, documentation, testing, and maintainability.
  • Manage Git-based pull request workflows with automated dbt compile and dbt test CI/CD gates.
  • Identify risks, resolve blockers, communicate tradeoffs, and support dbt orchestration and Databricks production deployments.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of production experience with dbt Core; dbt Certified Developer certification preferred.
  • Experience leading data engineering teams, mentoring engineers, reviewing code, and owning technical delivery.
  • Advanced knowledge of dbt, including Jinja macros, sources.yml, schema.yml tests, reusable model patterns, and incremental models.
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Databricks SQL Warehouses.
  • Advanced SQL skills, including CTEs, window functions, complex transformations, and Jinja templating.
  • Experience migrating legacy Python-based ETL pipelines into modular dbt models and validating output parity.
  • Proficiency with Git pull request workflows and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions running dbt compile and dbt test.
  • Strong technical leadership, stakeholder communication, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
  • Experience with Fivetran, externally managed lakehouses, Databricks Workflows, or media, e-commerce, or consumer analytics is preferred.
  • Experience working asynchronously across distributed teams and time zones is preferred.

Benefits

  • Fully remote work arrangement.
  • Fixed-term contract opportunity.
  • Inclusive, equal-opportunity workplace with spaces available for people with disabilities in compliance with Colombian Law 2466 of 2025.

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