Senior Data Engineer (Data Platform), Brazil

CI&T; Colombia; Hybrid; COP 144,491,000 - 228,778,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental insurance

Meal and food allowance

Extended paternity leave

Partnership with gyms

Profit Sharing

Life insurance

Continuous learning platform

Discount club

Job summary

A leading tech transformation company is seeking a Senior Data Engineer based in Colombia. You will build a near-real-time data platform, manage cloud infrastructure, and optimize data pipelines using tools like Kubernetes and Confluent Kafka. The ideal candidate has strong skills in SQL, experience with Snowflake, and a passion for data governance. This role offers attractive benefits including health insurance and continuous learning opportunities.

Qualifications

• Proven experience deploying, tuning, and debugging applications on Kubernetes.
• Hands-on experience with the Confluent Kafka ecosystem.
• Strong experience with Snowflake for enterprise data warehousing.
• Strong Snowflake experience for enterprise data warehousing.
• Excellent SQL skills and ability to optimize queries for EDW and streaming use cases.
• Experience building data pipelines for both EDW and real‑time streaming.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, tune, and operate data pipelines on Kubernetes.
• Implement and manage Confluent Kafka components.
• Configure and operate data governance tools like DataHub.
• Build and maintain enterprise data warehouses on Snowflake.
• Write and optimize SQL for EDW and streaming workloads.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for ETL/ELT.
• Design Data Lake/Data Warehouse solutions.

Skills

Advanced or fluent English communication skills

Experience deploying applications on Kubernetes

Hands-on experience with Confluent Kafka ecosystem

Strong experience with Snowflake

Strong knowledge of SQL

Data pipeline building experience

Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines for ETL/ELT

Tools

Kubernetes

Confluent Kafka

DataHub

Snowflake

Snowflake

DataHub

ETL/ELT tooling

Job description

Senior Data Engineer (Data Platform), Brazil

We are tech transformation specialists, uniting human expertise with AI to create scalable tech solutions.

With over 7,400 CI&Ters around the world, we’ve built partnerships with more than 1,000 clients during our 30-year history. Artificial Intelligence is our reality.

Hey everyone! This is Laura from CI&T's Talent Attraction Team :) I am looking for a talented Senior Data Engineer who has a strong background in both data pipelines and cloud infrastructure.

You'll be building our client's near-real-time data platform to solve complex data synchronization challenges. This role is hands‑on and requires deploying, tuning, and operating key tools like DataHub and self‑managed Confluent (Kafka) connectors on a Kubernetes platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Deploy, tune, and operate data pipelines on Kubernetes.
• Implement and manage Confluent Kafka ecosystem components, including Kafka Connect, Debezium CDC, and Snowflake sync.
• Configure and operate data governance tools such as DataHub.
• Build and maintain enterprise data warehouses on Snowflake.
• Write and optimize SQL queries for EDW and real‑time streaming use cases.
• Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines for ETL/ELT processes.
• Design and implement Data Lake / Data Warehouse solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced or fluent English communication skills (reading, writing, speaking).
• Proven experience deploying, tuning, and debugging applications on Kubernetes at an operational level.
• Hands‑on experience with the Confluent Kafka ecosystem, especially Kafka Connect (Debezium CDC, Snowflake sync).
• Experience with data governance tools, preferably deploying, configuring, or operating DataHub.
• Strong experience with Snowflake for enterprise data warehousing.
• Strong knowledge of SQL.
• Experience building data pipelines for both EDW use cases and real‑time streaming scenarios.
• Knowledge of CI/CD pipelines for ETL/ELT processes.
• Experience with Data Lake/Data Warehouse implementations.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Apache Flink (especially Flink SQL).
• Experience with open table formats like Apache Iceberg.
• Knowledge of DBT.
• Familiarity with data ingestion tools (Airbyte, Fivetran).
• Experience working with AWS and Azure.
• Familiarity with data quality practices.
• Knowledge of FinOps as applied to the data space.

Benefits

• Health and dental insurance.
• Meal and food allowance.
• 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.

Inclusion and Accessibility

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. 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.