Data Engineer

1GLOBAL; São Paulo; On-site; BRL 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Meal allowance (Caju card)

Health insurance with SulAmérica

Extended parental leave - 180 days

Daycare allowance

Quarterly performance bonuses

Job summary

1GLOBAL is seeking a hands-on Data Engineer to join the Data Engineering team. You will own the data lake ingestion, model datasets, and build reliable ETL/ELT pipelines from billing, CRM, network, and product sources.

You’ll work with Kafka, Airflow, and Python to ensure data quality, timeliness, and scalable analytics. Collaboration across teams is essential to drive trusted insights for the business.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of hands-on data engineering experience.
• Strong SQL, comfortable with window functions and CTEs.
• Experience building data pipelines on AWS S3/Glue/Athena.
• Experience consuming from Kafka and streaming data.
• Solid data modeling understanding for raw to conformed layers.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop and implement data models across raw and conformed layers.
• Create and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines into our S3-based data lake.
• Consume from Kafka topics and handle late, duplicate, or out-of-order events.
• Own data transformations with tests and documentation.
• Orchestrate and monitor pipelines with Airflow and SLAs.
• Write efficient SQL for transformations and ad-hoc investigations.
• Contribute to data quality checks and flag anomalies before reporting.
• Collaborate with teammates to ensure smooth development processes.

Skills

Data engineering

SQL

Python

Kafka

Data modeling

Communication

Tools

AWS S3

AWS Glue

AWS Athena

Spark

Hive

dbt

Airflow

Job description

About Us

1GLOBAL is a technology-driven global mobile communications provider, delivering global connectivity solutions to enterprises and consumers. Powered by a best-in-class telecom platform with its own owned and operated global mobile core network in 15 countries, fully fledged in-house developed eSIM technology, and an extensive portfolio of telecom licenses; 1GLOBAL operates as a fully regulated telecommunications provider across 43 countries worldwide.

The company serves many of the world’s leading banks, multinational enterprises, global retailers and digital-first businesses, including neo-banks, global fast moving consumer goods companies, travel leaders, and payment service providers. Today, 1GLOBAL connects more than 80 million people and devices globally, enabling our customers to launch, scale, and innovate with confidence in the mobile ecosystem.

1GLOBAL is a profitable, fast-growing business. With full-year revenues in 2025 exceeding US$200 million and profits of over US$25 million, we generate strong cash flows to fund our growth allowing us to continuously invest in infrastructure, platform innovation, and global expansion. In 2026 also the parent of the Lidl Group acquired a 10% interest in 1GLOBAL as part of a deal for Lidl to offer globally to its 180 million consumers communication services. Recent years have marked a defining phase in 1GLOBAL’s journey, with major enterprise and mass-consumer client wins accelerating its evolution into a global mobile connectivity powerhouse, purpose-built to enable consumer brands to enter and succeed with their own aspirations to offer telecommunications services to their clients.

Founded in 2022 by experienced technology entrepreneurs, Hakan Koç and Pyrros Koussios, 1GLOBAL has rapidly emerged as a European technology leader shaping the future of global telecommunications. It operates as a fully regulated Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) in 15 countries and as a regulated telecom operator in an additional 28 markets. Headquartered in the Netherlands, with world-class R&D hubs in Lisbon, Berlin, and São Paulo, its team of close to 550 experts across 16 countries is united by a single ambition: to redefine global mobile connectivity through technology, scale, and execution excellence.

About the Team

The Data Engineering team sits within the Central Data function, reporting to the Head of Data. We own the full data value chain: ingestion from source systems (billing, CRM, network, product, support, compliance), the data lake and warehouse layers, dataqualityand freshness. Wedon’town what the numbers mean — that’s thebusiness'scall — but we own making sure the numbers are correct,timely, and traceable back to source.

You’ll join Data Engineering as a hands-on engineer working on our core lake platform — ingesting high-volume network and customer data, modeling it into clean, reliable datasets, and making it available for reporting and self-service analytics across the business.

About the Role

• Develop and implement data models, ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and reliability across raw and curated layers

• Create and optimize ETL/ELT pipelines that ingest data from source systems (billing, CRM, network, product, support) into our S3-based data lake

• Consume from and build reliable logic around Kafka topics, handling late, duplicate, or out-of-order events as they arrive

• Own data transformations indbt, with tests and documentation so trust in the numbers is built in, not bolted on

• Orchestrate and monitor pipelines in Airflow, including retries, alerting, backfills, and SLAs

• Write efficient, well-structured SQL for transformation logic and ad-hoc investigation

• Contribute to data quality checks — completeness, freshness, reconciliation against source — and flag anomalies before they reach reporting

• Collaborate with team members to ensure smooth development processes and shared understanding.

• Take ownership of the quality and outcomes of your work, ensuring fully functional end-to-end flows.

• Create andmaintainaccurate, up-to-date technical documentation.

• Actively contribute to team discussions, with a mindset for continuous improvement and openness tonew ideasor technologies.

About You

Must Have

• 3-5 yearsof hands-on data engineering experience

• StrongSQL— comfortable with window functions, CTEs, query optimization

• Solid experience building andmaintainingdatapipelineson AWS S3, Glue, and Athena (or a closely comparable lake/warehouse stack — e.g. Spark + Hive/EMR,BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake,Exasol— if you know the S3/Glue/Athena equivalents well)

• Practical understandingofdatamodelling: raw → conformedlayers, dimensionalmodellingbasics, thinking about how a table willactually bequeried

• Experience consuming fromKafka(or another streaming/message system) as a data source

• AdvancedproficiencyinPythonfor ETL development, datamanipulationand system automation

• Strong communicationskills

Nice to Have

• Airflow— DAG design, retries, backfills

• dbt—modelling, testing, documentation

• Exposure toApache Icebergor other open table formats

• Experience intelecomor another high-volume, regulated data environment (finance, healthcare)

What We Offer?

• CLT contract —enjoy job stability and reliable benefits that value your work

• Quarterly performance bonuses to reward your hard work and achievements

• Meal allowance paid into Caju card—R$100per working day

• Health insurance with SulAmérica —50% covered by the company

• Extended parental leave —180 days of maternity leave and 20 days of paternity leave.

• Daycare allowance provided to mothers with children under 3 years old —R$500 per month per child

Why 1GLOBAL?

• Growth Opportunities: Advance your career in one of the fastest growing telecommunications companies, expanding over 50% year-on-year under the leadership of successful tech entrepreneurs.

• Major Transaction Exposure: Be in the driver’s seat for transactions that will have an impact on the future telco industry.

• Work with a Talented Team: From the Board and the Founders to the Senior Management Team, you will collaborate daily with the most capable and renowned external advisors and constantly being exposed to talented and driven individuals.

• Dynamic Work Environment: Thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced workplace where innovation is encouraged, and every contribution counts.

• Professional Development: Work alongside industry experts to enhance your skills and knowledge in a cutting-edge field.

• International Experience: Gain opportunities to work in different 1GLOBAL offices around the world as you grow within the company.

• Open Communication Culture: Join a team where your ideas are heard, and open dialogue is encouraged, fostering a supportive and transparent work environment.

• Get Things Done Attitude: Be part of a results-driven team that values efficiency, creativity, and the drive to make a tangible impact in the industry.

1GLOBAL is an equal opportunity employer, we value your character as much as your talent. Diversity drives our innovation, and we offer a collaborative, dynamic, and international work environment. We are excited for you to join our mission to revolutionise connectivity globally.