1 month ago
Remote, Peru +4 moreStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead and mentor a team of data engineers, set technical direction, conduct code reviews, and drive engineering excellence.
- Own the end-to-end architecture, design, and implementation of scalable data platforms, pipelines, and data models.
- Lead data migration strategies from Snowflake and SSIS to Azure Databricks and dbt.
- Drive infrastructure as code with Terraform, CI/CD adoption, architectural standards, troubleshooting, and stakeholder collaboration.
- Lead engineering team development through mentoring, training, and performance management.
Requirements
- 8+ years of data engineering experience, including at least 2–3 years in a Lead or Staff-level role.
- Proven experience owning system design and leading large-scale data platform implementations.
- Strong hands-on expertise with Snowflake, Azure Databricks, dbt, Python, and advanced SQL.
- Experience with thousands of dbt models and pipelines processing terabytes of data daily.
- Deep understanding of data architecture, data modeling, distributed data systems, and ETL/ELT frameworks.
- Extensive experience with Terraform, infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, and Git-based version control.
- Experience leading cloud-to-cloud data migration projects, preferably from AWS to Azure.
- Previous insurance or financial services experience, including claims, policies, underwriting, and risk domains.
- Experience leading and developing engineering teams, including mentoring, training, and managing different performance levels.
- Preferred experience with data governance, observability, data quality, security and compliance standards, Kafka, Event Hubs, Delta Live Tables, lakehouse architectures, cost and performance optimization, and multi-cloud or hybrid cloud environments.
Benefits
- Remote role available in Costa Rica, Peru, Colombia, and Bolivia.
About Encora
Encora provides software and digital product engineering services for technology companies and enterprises, including cloud-native development, data engineering, and QA. It operates a global delivery model and supports outsourced product development and managed engineering teams. Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, Encora is privately held and was acquired by Coforge; it previously raised $200 million in private equity funding in 2019.