DEPT®

Senior Data Platform Engineer

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1 day ago
Buenos Aires, ArgentinaSenior

Responsibilities

  • Build, run, and maintain end-to-end data pipelines from ingestion through transformation and modeled, analysis-ready tables.
  • Write and maintain dbt models and SQL transformations on Databricks or Snowflake.
  • Design, explain, and defend scalable data models for complex real-world datasets.
  • Own platform operations including monitoring, alerting, incident response, and capacity planning.
  • Design reusable orchestration patterns with Airflow, Databricks Workflows, and AWS services such as Glue, Step Functions, and S3.
  • Contribute to automated testing, environment promotion, deployment pipelines, and infrastructure-as-code for the data platform.
  • Solve large-scale data challenges involving partitioning, file layout, compute right-sizing, job concurrency, pipeline reliability, performance, and cost.
  • Collaborate with distributed teams and communicate effectively in English.

Requirements

  • 5–7 years of experience as a data engineer, including significant experience building or operating a data platform.
  • Strong SQL skills and proficiency in a general-purpose programming language such as Python.
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks and/or Snowflake.
  • Experience with AWS data services such as S3, Glue, Step Functions, and Lambda.
  • Experience with Airflow or Databricks Workflows and reusable orchestration patterns.
  • Strong understanding of data governance, security, access control, data quality, monitoring, and incident response in production environments.
  • Experience building CI/CD for data workflows and using Terraform or other infrastructure-as-code tooling.
  • Strong data modeling skills and judgment around scalable model design.
  • Experience addressing operational and cost challenges involving data at scale.
  • Experience working with complex datasets beyond clickstream or e-commerce data.
  • Excellent communication and presentation skills, including executive-level communication, stakeholder management, relationship building, and cross-functional collaboration.
  • Fluency in English, both written and verbal.
  • Exposure to streaming or document-store technologies such as Kafka or MongoDB is a plus.

Benefits

  • Premium OSDE healthcare for the employee and immediate family members.
  • Mendel prepaid card with a monthly grocery allowance.
  • Monthly reimbursement for Wi-Fi and electricity expenses.
  • Monthly reimbursement for training and English classes.
  • 100% covered Plan Total membership at Sportclub.
  • Access to the Bonda benefits platform.
  • Flexible vacation policy.
  • Fully equipped offices in Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata with refreshments and common spaces.

Tech Stack

Apache AirflowApache KafkaAWSDatabricksdbtMongoDBPythonSnowflakeSQLTerraform

Categories

Data EngineeringDevOps
DEPT®

About DEPT®

1,001-5,000 employees

DEPT® is a global technology and marketing services agency that designs and builds digital products, campaigns, and commerce for large brands. It delivers strategy and execution across brand/media, experience design, commerce, CRM, and technology/data as a fee-for-service agency. Headquartered in Amsterdam and owned by The Carlyle Group, it is B Corp and Climate Neutral certified since 2021, with clients such as Google, eBay, and Lufthansa.

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