Remote Senior Data Engineer: Lead Pipelines & AI Data

iScale Solutions; Cebu City; Remote; PHP 1,000,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Salary Package

Vacation and Sick Leave credits

Health Coverage

Government-mandated benefits

Learning Opportunities

Team Engagement

Modern Tools

Career Growth

Inclusive Culture

Job summary

iScale Solutions is hiring a data engineer for a remote role. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, architect processing logic, and optimize large-scale data workflows across platforms. This position emphasizes reliability, governance, and collaboration with analytics, product, and data science teams.

You will mentor 2–3 engineers, translate business requirements into technical designs, and contribute to documentation and AI-driven improvements. Experience in Spark and Snowflake is a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional data engineering experience with production pipelines.
• Strong SQL skills, complex joins, window functions, and troubleshooting.
• Experience with Hive/Hadoop ecosystem and distributed data processing concepts.
• Proficiency in Python for data processing and automation.
• Hands-on AWS experience (S3, Athena, EC2, EMR).
• Airflow or similar ETL/workflow orchestration tool expertise.
• Experience with data quality checks, monitoring, and operations support.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical designs with minimal supervision.
• Strong documentation and communication skills; proficient in Jira/Confluence.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled automation and simple AI agents is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own data pipeline development from design to production and maintenance.
• Lead technical design including data models, processing logic, and workflows.
• Develop and optimize data processing with SQL, Hive, and Python.
• Build and support AWS data solutions, including S3, Athena, EC2, EMR.
• Create and manage automated workflows with Airflow and similar tools.
• Ensure production reliability, monitor data freshness, and investigate failures.
• Maintain data governance, validation checks, lineage, and access controls.
• Mentor a small team of 2-3 engineers and review designs and code.
• Collaborate with analytics, product, engineering, and data science teams.
• Document architectures, data flow, dictionaries, and runbooks in Confluence.
• Explore AI opportunities in engineering workflows and validate outputs.

Skills

SQL

Hive/Hadoop

Python

AWS

Airflow

ETL/ELT pipelines

Data quality

Data modeling

Collaboration

Version control

Tools

Apache Spark

Snowflake

OpenAI Codex

Git

Confluence

Jira

Job description

iScale Solutions is hiring a data engineer for a remote role. You will own end-to-end data pipelines, architect processing logic, and optimize large-scale data workflows across platforms. This position emphasizes reliability, governance, and collaboration with analytics, product, and data science teams.

You will mentor 2–3 engineers, translate business requirements into technical designs, and contribute to documentation and AI-driven improvements. Experience in Spark and Snowflake is a plus.