[Job-32197] Tech Lead Data - Databricks

Key Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership to Data Engineering squads, supporting design, reviews, and decision-making to unblock delivery.

Co-define with the Data Architect the technical vision, coding standards, modeling conventions, and best practices for the Lakehouse (Delta Lake + Medallion).

Design and oversee pipelines in Databricks (PySpark/Spark SQL) across Bronze/Silver/Gold layers, ensuring security, performance, and governance.

Implement and reinforce DataOps practices: version control (Git), CI/CD, testing (unit/integration/data quality), and documentation.

Optimize jobs/pipelines: partitioning, Spark tuning, cost management, and reliability (baseline observability and alerting).

Ensure non-functional requirements: security, access control, and data policies in Azure/Databricks aligned with defined governance.

Collaborate with stakeholders (business/analytics) to translate requirements into scalable solutions with realistic delivery plans.

Mentor engineers, promote standards, and create references (templates, playbooks) to accelerate the team.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Must-have Skills

Strong experience in Data Engineering and projects, with experience as a Tech Lead/Senior leading teams technically and operationally.

Strong hands-on experience in Databricks: PySpark and Spark SQL; batch pipelines (and working knowledge of streaming when needed).

Mastery of Delta Lake and practical application of the Medallion architecture (Bronze/Silver/Gold).

Solid experience with Azure for data, including at least: Azure Databricks, Azure Data Lake Storage (ADLS), and integration with security/identity services (e.g., Azure Active Directory).

Strong SQL and Python skills; fundamentals in modeling (dimensional/consumption) and good practices for contracts/schemas.

Experience with DataOps: Git, CI/CD for data pipelines, automated testing, and clear documentation.

Proven ability to review design/code, resolve performance/scale issues, and guide teams.

Advanced English to work with stakeholders and produce technical documentation.

Nice-to-have Skills

Unity Catalog (governance/lineage/access control) and Databricks Workflows/Repos; Delta Live Tables.

Data quality frameworks (Great Expectations/Soda) and/or dbt on the Lakehouse.

Orchestration (Airflow/Databricks Workflows) and observability (metrics, logs, alerts).

Experience with CDC/streaming ingestion (Event Hubs/Kafka) when applicable.

Consulting experience and international client exposure; Databricks/Azure certifications.

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Our benefits:

-Health and dental insurance

-Meal and food allowance

-Childcare assistance

-Extended paternity leave

-Partnership with gyms and health and wellness professionals via Wellhub (Gympass) TotalPass;

-Profit Sharing and Results Participation (PLR);

-Life insurance

-Continuous learning platform (CI&T University);

-Discount club

-Free online platform dedicated to physical, mental, and overall well-being

-Pregnancy and responsible parenting course

-Partnerships with online learning platforms

-Language learning platform

And many more!

More details about our benefits here: https://ciandt.com/br/pt-br/carreiras

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