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[Job-32044] Senior Data Developer, Colombia

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

About the role

Senior Data Developer responsible for owning and delivering the relational and lakehouse data layer behind a higher-education platform, ensuring data correctness, governance, and availability for analytics, CRM, and partner-facing applications.

Responsibilities

  • Database Development: Design, build and tune schemas, stored procedures, views, functions and indexes. Lead query-plan analysis and performance work.
  • Lakehouse Engineering: Build and maintain Databricks pipelines (PySpark / Spark SQL) and dbt models using Kimball dimensional modeling.
  • Dual-Layer Delivery: Support both transactional SQL databases used by applications and the lakehouse models used for analytics.
  • Data Governance & Quality: Manage data access and lineage in Unity Catalog. Implement quality checks and source-to-target reconciliation, and protect sensitive personal data (masking, row-level access).
  • Engineering Practices: Version database changes in Git, deploy through CI/CD, and review peers' SQL.
  • Knowledge Transfer & Operations: Take over existing schemas and jobs from previous teams without disrupting production. Document data models and runbooks, and support incident resolution and root-cause analysis.
  • Collaboration: Work with the Data Architect on modeling standards, and with application developers on API and data contracts.
  • Mentorship: Mentor mid-level developers and explain technical trade-offs to client architects.
  • Nearshore Delivery: Work with North American stakeholders and teams in Brazil and Colombia, keeping strong overlap with US business hours.

Qualifications

  • Advanced/fluent English (C1 or above)
  • Expert SQL (T-SQL and/or ANSI), including stored procedures, window functions, CTEs, indexing and execution plans
  • Solid experience with relational databases (SQL Server / Azure SQL preferred, or PostgreSQL or similar)
  • Hands-on production experience with Databricks, PySpark, Delta Lake and dbt
  • Solid experience with dimensional modeling (Kimball) and data warehouse design
  • Experience with Git, CI/CD for database changes and Jira

Skills

Required:SQLRelational databasesDatabricksdbtGit / CI/CDDimensional modeling (Kimball)

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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