[Job-00021] Senior Data Engineer, Brazil

CI; Brasil; Remote; BRL 279,000 - 435,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental insurance

Meal and food allowance

Childcare assistance

Extended paternity leave

Wellness/fitness programs (Wellhub/Gym

Profit Sharing

Life insurance

Learning platforms

Job summary

CI&T is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build scalable, reliable data solutions and industrialize pipelines across growing markets in Brazil. You will focus on data contracts, production-ready dbt pipelines, and onboarding new countries and segments.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality analytical data, migrate workflows from interim tools, and help shape our data architecture and governance practices using Python, SQL, dbt, PostgreSQL, and Azure.

Qualifications

• Formal experience in data engineering or data-intensive applications.
• Proficiency with Python and SQL.
• Hands-on dbt experience and building data transformation pipelines.
• Experience migrating data workflows and optimizing queries.

Responsibilities

• Industrialize and optimize dbt pipelines and migrate data workflows to production-ready systems.
• Own data scope/versioning, ensuring traceability across data processes.
• Define and maintain data contracts with Optim-core to ensure data quality for rule compliance.
• Build scalable onboarding processes for new countries/segments.
• Develop data transformation workflows using Python, SQL, dbt, and PostgreSQL.
• Contribute to data architecture decisions, pipeline reliability, and best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to meet business and technical requirements.

Skills

Software engineering

Data engineering

Python

SQL

Analytical thinking

Communication

Tools

dbt

DuckDB

PostgreSQL

Azure

Git

Job description

At CI&T, we help large enterprises transform the potential of AI into real business impact with AI Deployment, AI-native execution, and tech-integrated business solutions.

With 30 years of experience in technological transformation, we accelerate innovation with expertise in Agentic SDLC, Application modernization, Data & AI, Martech and Business strategy.

We are 8,000 CI&Ters across more than 25 countries, collaborating to build solutions with real impact. AI is already part of how we work, evolve, and innovate every day.

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineerto help build scalable, reliable, and reusable data solutions. In this role, you will focus on industrializing data pipelines, strengthening data contracts, and delivering high-quality analytical data to support rule compliance.

You will play a key role in evolving the data infrastructure, replacing interim solutions with production-ready pipelines, and enabling efficient onboarding of new countries and business segments.

Responsibilities

• Industrialize and optimize dbt pipelines, migrating data workflows from DuckDB to PostgreSQL and retiring interim PowerQuery solutions.
• Own the versioning of scope and constraints, ensuring consistency, traceability, and reliability across data processes.
• Define and maintain data contracts with Optim-core, ensuring the availability and quality of analytical data required for rule compliance.
• Build reusable and scalable onboarding processes to support the expansion into new countries and business segments.
• Develop and maintain data transformation workflows using Python, SQL, dbt, and PostgreSQL.
• Contribute to data architecture decisions, pipeline reliability, and engineering best practices.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure data solutions meet business and technical requirements.

Requirements for this challenge

• Strong experience in software engineering, with a focus on data engineering or data-intensive applications.
• Proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Hands-on experience with dbt and building and maintaining data transformation pipelines.
• Experience working with DuckDB and PostgreSQL, including data migration and query optimization.
• Experience with Azure cloud environments.
• Understanding of data modeling, data quality, versioning, and data contracts.
• Ability to design reusable solutions that support scalability and maintainability.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to translate business needs into reliable technical solutions.

Nice to Have

• Experience migrating data workflows from interim tools to production-ready architectures.
• Familiarity with data governance, lineage, and data quality practices.
• Experience building reusable data processes for multiple countries, markets, or business segments.
• Experience integrating analytical data pipelines with downstream platforms or optimization engines.

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Our benefits:

• -Health and dental insurance
• -Meal and food allowance
• -Childcare assistance
• -Extended paternity leave
• -Partnership with gyms and health and wellness professionals via Wellhub (Gympass) TotalPass;
• -Profit Sharing and Results Participation (PLR);
• -Life insurance
• -Continuous learning platform (CI&T University);
• -Discount club
• -Free online platform dedicated to physical, mental, and overall well-being
• -Pregnancy and responsible parenting course
• -Partnerships with online learning platforms
• -Language learning platform
• -And many more!

More details about our benefits here: https://ciandt.com/br/pt-br/carreiras

At CI&T, inclusion starts at the first contact. If you are a person with a disability, it is important to present your assessment during the selection process. See which data needs to be included in the report by clicking here. This way, we can ensure the support and accommodations that you deserve. If you do not yet have the assessment, don't worry: we can support you in obtaining it.

We have a dedicated Health and Well-being team, inclusion specialists, and affinity groups who will be with you at every stage. Count on us to make this journey side by side.