Newsela

Contractor: Senior Data Platform Engineering Services

Posted: Nov 16, 2025

Job Description

Seeking to hire a Contractor based out of Mexico, Brazil, Costa Rica, Colombia, Chile, or Argentina for Senior-Level Data Platform Engineering Services.Scope Of ServicesAs a Contractor you will work alongside app developers and data stakeholders to create data system changes and to respond to data inquiresYou will contribute to initiatives and assist in problem definition scoping, design, and planning through epics and blueprints. Utilize your domain knowledge to develop documentation, participate in technical presentations, discussions, and incident reviews.You will build and maintain data pipelines and DAG tooling You will establish and maintain a data catalog with business-related metadataSkills & ExperienceAt least 5 years of experience in data engineering, software engineering, or a related field.Strong proficiency in SQL, Python, and relational datastores (columnar and row databases)Proficiency in building and maintaining data pipelines and DAG tooling (Dagster, Airflow, etc)Experience with event-based pipelines and CDC tooling.Experience in managing data migrations in relational datastores.Experience in optimizing SQL query performance.Experience with data testing strategies to ensure resulting datastores align with expected business logicExperience with DBT orchestration and best practicesExperience with enabling monitoring, health checks and alerting on data systems and pipelinesExperience establishing and maintaining a data catalog with business-related metadataExperience building tools and automation to run data infrastructureExperience with writing and maintaining cloud-based infrastructure for data pipelines (AWS, GCP and Terraform) is a plusExperience in document, graph or schema-less datastores is a plusPlease note that given the nature of the contract, this role will not be eligible to participate in company-sponsored benefits.

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