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Big Data Tech Lead Talent Pool

We are looking for a talented tech lead to work on an IT project involving the maintenance and improvement of a big and complex data pipeline. This project has high visibility and high growth, so it is important to have a diverse background in computing to succeed in this role. Experience should include data management, reports creation, support, backend API development, cloud computing, and team and client management. If you think this fits your profile, we look forward to talking to you! *Job available only for Latin American residents*

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Full Time

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What you'll do

  • Lead and manage teams working on large, complex, end-to-end data platforms and pipelines
  • Develop deep understanding of the structure, semantics, and business meaning of complex data landscapes
  • Lead the technical architecture of the platform
  • Design scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud-based data solutions
  • Translate business requirements into technical strategies and execution plans for projects of any size
  • Create and communicate technical artifacts, including
    • Architecture diagrams
    • Data models
    • Data dictionaries, and
    • Technical design documentation
  • Act as the primary technical authority, leading the team through challenges and guiding complex technical decisions
  • Define delivery plans, estimates, and priorities
  • Clearly communicate plans, progress, and risks to the team and to clients
  • Ensure high-quality delivery at both code and platform levels
  • Enforce engineering, data quality, and operational standards
  • Perform and oversee peer code reviews, focusing on
    • Clean code
    • Reusable patterns
    • Testing
    • Best Git practices
  • Drive continuous improvement initiatives to enhance platform reliability, efficiency, scalability, and delivery speed
  • Anticipate technical, delivery, and operational risks
  • Escalate issues proactively and plan mitigations
  • Assume responsibilities beyond development, including infrastructure, monitoring, production support, maintenance, and operational processes
  • Establish and enforce observability practices (monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs/SLAs, etc.)
  • Lead incident response when needed
  • Work across teams and provide architectural guidance and governance beyond the immediate team
  • Mentor and develop engineers and foster technical excellence, ownership, and career growth
  • Participate in talent assessment decisions to ensure strong team composition

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Requirements

  • 5+ years of professionalexperience in software or data engineering
  • Proven experience leading teams oncomplex IT or data platform projects
  • Experience with end-to-end bigdata pipelines (batch, streaming, or hybrid)
  • Advanced proficiency in SQL(queries, performance tuning, indexing, partitioning, etc.)
  • Strong programming skills inPython or similar languages with clean and modular engineering practices
  • Deep understanding of cloudarchitecture, including computing, storage, networking, identity, and costoptimization
  • Expertise in data platformarchitecture, including modern paradigms such as Lambda, Kappa, microservices,and event-driven pipelines
  • Strong background in data modeling(dimensional, normalized, and data vault models)
  • Ability to independently deliverand oversee tasks of any complexity
  • Excellent business and technicalacumen and ability to connect technical decisions to business impact
  • Proven experience defining andmanaging CI/CD pipelines, automation, and release strategies
  • Experience debugging and resolvingcomplex production issues in data platforms
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Confidence driving discussions andproviding clear updates to clients and stakeholders
  • Experience working with agilemethodologies (e.g., scrum)
  • Strong organizational skills,including prioritization, estimation, and management of competing priorities
  • Advanced English proficiency forclient-facing communication and documentation
  • Experience definingorganization-wide data quality frameworks, data contracts, and anomalydetection
  • Hands-on experience with datagovernance, lineage, cataloging, and access control
  • Familiarity with regulatory andcompliance requirements (e.g., GDPR or HIPAA)
  • Experience leading technologyevaluations and proofs of concept (PoCs)
  • Experience providing cross-teamarchitectural governance or acting as a platform steward
  • Background influencing engineering culture at scale,including documentation, observability, and review practices‍

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Other information

  • 100% remote job, allowing for flexibility and a great work-life balance
  • Flexible work environment that supports personal and professional needs
  • Regular feedback focused on personal development and career growth
  • Competitive salary, reflecting your skills and contributions
  • Opportunities for international collaboration and travel
  • Legal Person (PJ) contract

This job is available only for Latin American residents.

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Data Engineer Talent Pool

We are looking for software data engineers for our talent pool! At KIS, we are always looking for talented individuals to join our team for future opportunities. If you are a data engineer (junior, mid, or senior) and interested in working on innovative projects with one of our global clients, sign up for our vacancy! *Job available only for Latin American residents*

Questions about joining our team?

remote/office work

We are a fully remote company, but we value in-person connections. We host annual trips for the entire team to collaborate and bond, and some teams organize additional meetups throughout the year to work together.

what does "flexible work" mean at KIS?

You can choose your work hours, as long as you meet your team and client's main meetings, cerimonies and deliveries. Apart from those ceremonies, you can choose how to distribute the remaining hours of your day. Just make sure you're communicating frequently and clearly.

how we keep our teams together

We have performance plans, feedback and follow-up sessions, social gatherings (online and offline) and laid-back events to keep the teams engaged and united.

how does our contract work?

Our contracts are based on Legal Person agreements (PJ in Brazil). Let us know if you need help explaining this contract model.

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