Lead Data Engineer

Redwood Logistics; Santiago de Querétaro; Remote; MXN 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Learning & Development

Internal mobility

Employee Resource Groups

Volunteer events

Employee referral bonus

Life Insurance

Health Insurance

Aguinaldo bonus

Vacation days 12+ per year

Prima vacacional

Saving Plan

Food Coupons

Cell phone allowance

Job summary

Redwood Logistics is seeking a Lead Data Engineer to guide a team of data engineers in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines, a data vault, and warehouse structures. You will work with stakeholders across departments to deliver critical metrics and shape data strategy.

You will mentor engineers, manage agile backlogs, and stay current with emerging data technologies. This remote role supports Mexican operations with potential collaboration across North America.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in a related field.
• 8+ years of technology experience with data engineering and analytics.
• Strong SQL development and performance tuning skills.
• Experience with data pipelines, data vaults, data warehouses, and data marts.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of data engineers and manage backlogs and sprints.
• Collaborate with business and technical leaders to set strategic initiatives.
• Develop and maintain Data Vault, Data Warehouse, and Data Marts to deliver metrics.
• Design and optimize data pipelines from various data sources and TMS/WMS systems.
• Ensure data quality, validation, and monitoring across platforms.

Skills

Leadership

Team mentoring

Communication

Problem solving

Self-starter

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Amazon RDS (Aurora/MySQL)

Microsoft SQL Server

Snowflake

Python

Pandas

Streamlit

NumPy

JSON/CSV handling

Requests

Azure Data Factory

REST API

AWS/Azure/Google Cloud

Fivetran

Data Vault 2.0

Coalesce.io

YAML

Git/CI/CD

Job description

Work Schedule

This position is full-time and remote Monday through Friday with an hour break

Reports To

Principal Data Engineer

Location

Monterrey o Querétaro, México

Environment

Remote

Who We Are

Recognized by Gartner in their Modern 4PL Market Guide, Redwood Logistics is at the forefront of industry innovation. Our cutting-edge supply chain technology pairs with the expertise of our brilliant minds to empower logistics execution across North America and Mexico. Leveraging a comprehensive range of services, data-centric network solutions, and a seamlessly integrated platform, we have established our prominence as a key player in the mid-market segment within the freight tech industry. Whether you’re just starting your career or are an established professional looking for your next opportunity, Redwood inspires innovation across teams to provide transformative solutions for our customers.

Purpose Of Your Work

As Lead Data Engineer working within Shared Services (one of our entities), you will be responsible for leading a team of data engineers working on designing, developing, and maintaining scalable data pipelines, a data vault, and various data warehouses and marts. You will work with stakeholders across all departments to deliver key metrics across a variety of functional areas, as well as participate in establishing data strategy.

How You Make a Difference Everyday

• Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, providing guidance, support, and technical expertise
• Manage backlog grooming, sprint planning, and prioritization activities for data engineering projects
• Collaborate with business and technical leaders to set and execute both strategic and tactical initiatives
• Stay current with emerging trends and technologies in data engineering. Identify and evaluate new platforms and tools to enhance the tech stack and improve data infrastructure and processes
• Design, develop, and maintain robust data pipelines from various TMS and other data sources.
• Design and implement new data structures or extend existing structures to support evolving business requirements
• Ensure the accuracy, reliability, and completeness of data through effective data validation and monitoring processes
• Develop and maintain our Data Vault, Data Warehouse, and Data Marts to deliver key metrics to operational and business stakeholders
• Collaborate with a wide variety of users, including internal stakeholders, executives, clients, engineers, and external vendors
• Improve and harden processes like code deployments, data validation, error handling/alerting, data democratization, and modernizing tech debt

You’ve Got This?

• Bachelor’s Degree required (or equivalent experience); preference in Business Administration, Mathematics, Computer Science, or related field
• Creative thinker who is intellectually curious, with a passion for solving puzzles and continuous learning
• 8+ years technology experience with one or more of the following:
• Amazon Relational Database Service (Aurora, MySQL)
• Microsoft SQL Server
• Snowflake
• Exceptional SQL development and performance tuning skills
• Strong experience with Python language, libraries, applications, and concepts:
• Pandas
• Streamlit
• NumPy
• Understanding of JSON and CSV
• Requests
• Experience with the following is a strong plus:
• TMS, WMS, or other enterprise logistics platforms
• Data Vault 2.0
• Fivetran
• Azure Data Factory
• REST API
• Proficiency in clouds platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud
• Coalesce.io
• YAML
• Experience with git, DevOps, and CI/CD is a strong plus
• Self-starter, entrepreneurial, highly adaptable who can take initiative in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong communication and leadership skills

What We Offer

• Access to experts and resources for your Learning & Development journey
• Opportunity for internal mobility
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• Annual fundraising and volunteer events to give back to communities
• Employee referral bonus program
• Life Insurance policy for you starting 30 days after employment
• Personal Health Insurance coverage for you – Major Medical
• 30 days “Aguinaldo” Christmas bonus or prorated percentage your first year
• Vacation time starts at 12 days. Additional days will increase per Mexican Law
• Premium Vacation 50% vacation days (Prima vacacional)
• You will also receive benefits like Saving Plan (Fondo de Ahorro) and Food Coupons (Vales De Despensa) 6% or the Maximum amount by Mexican Law
• You will be provided with a Cell Phone Allowance of $800 pesos per month minus applicable taxes

Redwood is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions at the Company are based on individual merit, qualifications, abilities, and the Company’s needs and resources. The Company does not discriminate in recruiting, hiring, compensation, promotions, discipline, termination or any other aspect of employment on the basis of an individual’s actual or perceived race, color, creed, religion, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, disability, marital status, military service or status, genetic information, arrest and conviction record, credit history, or any other basis protected by applicable law.