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1178 - Sr. Data Architect

GoFasti
Contract type
Freelance
Work mode
Remote · Latin America
Experience
Lead / principal · 10+ years

Job description

A Senior Data Architect role at GoFasti, placed with a client, to design and own end-to-end lakehouse architecture on Databricks and lead data platform migrations. The position is remote, based in Latin America, and offered as a full-time contract.

At a glance

Employment
Contract · Independent contractor
Work mode
Remote · Latin America
Languages
English – C1
Pay
USD 7,000 – 8,800 / month

What you'll do

  • Design and own the end-to-end lakehouse architecture on Databricks, using Medallion (bronze/silver/gold) patterns.
  • Build and optimize scalable batch and streaming pipelines in PySpark, Spark SQL and Python.
  • Lead platform migrations (e.g., legacy data warehouse or Hadoop/EMR to Databricks) with measurable gains in cost and run time.
  • Define data governance: Unity Catalog, fine-grained access control, auditing, lineage and compliance (GDPR and similar).
  • Model data for analytics and operations (OLTP/OLAP, dimensional, SQL and NoSQL).
  • Set engineering standards: CI/CD, unit and integration tests, code review, reusable Python packages, Databricks Asset Bundles.
  • Manage infrastructure as code with Terraform and drive FinOps practices to control cloud spend.
  • Evaluate and prototype AI use cases on the platform (LLMs, vector databases, agents, MLflow).
  • Advise other teams on architecture and mentor junior and mid-level engineers.

What we're looking for

  • 10+ years in data engineering, including 5+ years hands-on with Databricks and Spark in production.
  • Strong Python and PySpark; working knowledge of Scala and advanced SQL.
  • Proven record designing data lakes, data warehouses and lakehouses, including at least one large migration you led.
  • Production experience on at least one major cloud (AWS, Azure or GCP).
  • Hands-on data governance with Unity Catalog, access controls, lineage and auditing.
  • Solid software engineering practice: Git workflows, automated testing, CI/CD (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions or similar).
  • Infrastructure as code with Terraform.
  • Ability to explain design trade-offs clearly to engineers and non-technical stakeholders.
  • Experience mentoring engineers.
  • English at C1 level or higher.

Nice to have

  • Databricks certifications (e.g., Platform Administrator, Data Engineer Professional).
  • AWS Solutions Architect or equivalent cloud architecture certification.
  • Multi-cloud experience across AWS, Azure and GCP.
  • Experience building agentic or RAG solutions with LangChain, LangGraph, MLflow, OpenAI APIs and vector databases.
  • Real-time and IoT data processing at high volume.
  • Background in finance, telecom, payments or SaaS data domains.
  • Spanish or Portuguese.

How to get hired

  1. 1Application review/approval
  2. 2Screening interview with GoFasti's team
  3. 3We build and send your profile to our client
  4. 4Profile review/approval by client
  5. 5Interview with the client
  6. 6Hiring and onboarding

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