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# Senior Data Architect, Brazil

- **Company:** REMOTE
- **Location:** San Francisco, CA, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Airflow, Databases, Continuous Integration, Data Architecture, Data Governance, Data Transformation, Data Systems, Integrated Development Environments, DataOps, Sql Optimization, Snowflake, Data Lakes, Data Lineage, AWS Data Analytics, Machine Learning Operations, Data Pipelines, Databricks
- **Published:** November 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_e28068fc2a635692393430cfac8cb1d6

## About the Role

* 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, * Databricks certification
 * Experience with Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouse platforms
 * Knowledge of data governance and privacy principles in regulated industries
 * Experience with CI/CD and MLOps pipeline practices
 * Familiarity with AI solutions and agentic coding workflows
 * Experience leading consultative data assessments and data modernization engagements
 * Spanish or Portuguese language skills

## Description

* 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.