[Hiring] Senior Data Architect @GoFasti

Role Description

We need an English-fluent Senior Data Architect, based in Latin America, available to work remotely. We are looking for someone with exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, who embraces changes while maintaining strong attention to detail. An interested and proactive person, who's constantly learning and improving their skills.

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

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

Benefits

• The salary range offered for this position varies from (USD) $7,000 - $8,800 per month, depending on seniority and skillset.
• This position is for a full-time contract, through a payroll platform.
• The talent will work remotely allocated at our client.

Company Description

GoFasti bridges the gap between world-class developers and designers from LatAm and first-class companies around the globe.