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[Job - 32043] Senior Data Architect, Colombia

CI&T· Data & AI
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Hybrid (Colombia)HomeofficePosted 2w ago

About the role

Data Architect Senior who combines deep technical expertise with the ability to guide a team and communicate clearly with client stakeholders. Hands-on technical leadership role covering ingestion, lakehouse design, modeling, governance, and serving, with nearshore delivery and US business hours overlap.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the data team technically, providing hands-on guidance to database specialists and developers on the design, development, and maintenance of data products and pipelines.
  • Define and evolve the target data architecture — covering ingestion, lakehouse design, data modeling, governance, and serving layers — aligned with security, performance, and cost standards.
  • Drive solution design by translating business and technical requirements into workable solutions, selecting appropriate frameworks, patterns, and modeling approaches for each context.
  • Collaborate directly with the client's architects and business leaders to present architectural options and trade-offs; record decisions clearly so the team builds from a shared, agreed foundation.
  • Establish and enforce standards for data quality, access control, data lineage, and privacy in an environment that handles regulated and sensitive data.
  • Maintain a stable and productive development environment by incorporating CI/CD and DataOps practices that support consistent, reliable delivery.
  • Lead current-state data assessments and knowledge transfer processes during transitions, identifying priorities that deliver measurable business value incrementally.
  • Develop proofs of concept and prototypes to validate architectural approaches and demonstrate value to client stakeholders.
  • Stay actively connected to CI&T's data practice, contributing to and drawing on shared methodologies and expertise across engagements.

Qualifications

  • Advanced English proficiency (C1 level or above) — mandatory for direct, daily engagement with North American stakeholders
  • Proven experience in data architecture design and hands-on technical leadership of multidisciplinary data teams
  • Solid experience designing, building, and deploying data pipelines, lakehouse architectures, and data products at scale
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks — including Delta Lake and Unity Catalog — or equivalent depth on AWS data services
  • Strong data modeling skills across dimensional (Kimball) and relational approaches, with advanced SQL
  • Experience with pipeline orchestration and workflow automation (e.g., dbt, Databricks Workflows, or Apache Airflow)
  • Demonstrated ability to translate business problems into practical data solutions and communicate trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to work in a nearshore delivery model with consistent overlap with US Central business hours

Skills

Required:English proficiency (C1)Data architecture designData pipeline design and deploymentDatabricks (Delta Lake, Unity Catalog) or AWS data servicesData modeling (Kimball and relational)Orchestration/workflow automationCommunication of trade-offs to stakeholders

Benefits

  • Premium Healthcare
  • Meal voucher
  • Maternity and Parental leaves
  • Mobile services subsidy
  • Sick pay-Life insurance
  • CI&T University
  • Colombian Holidays
  • Paid Vacations
  • And many others.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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