CI&T
CI&T
CI&T is a global technology transformation company founded in 1995, helping organizations modernize how they build, operate, and engage through digital products and services. Its work includes application modernization, cloud solutions, AI and data analytics, customer experience, product design, strategy consulting, and immersive experiences. With expertise serving industries such as consulting, healthcare, and marketing, CI&T brings together technology and business capabilities to support organizations pursuing growth and more efficient operations.

Senior Data Architect – Colombia Remote

Lead scalable data architecture, engineering pipelines, and governance for CI&T’s enterprise EdTech engagement. Provide hands-on technical direction while collaborating with stakeholders in the United States.

Description

  • Provide technical leadership to data specialists and developers delivering data products and pipelines
  • Shape the target architecture across ingestion, lakehouse platforms, data modeling, governance, and serving layers
  • Turn business and technical needs into practical, implementable data solutions
  • Choose suitable frameworks, architectural patterns, and modeling techniques
  • Work with client architects and business leaders to explain design alternatives and trade-offs
  • Document architectural decisions so the team can execute consistently
  • Define and uphold practices for data quality, access management, lineage, and privacy
  • Embed CI/CD and DataOps practices into dependable delivery processes
  • Assess existing data environments and lead knowledge transfer during transitions
  • Sequence initiatives to produce measurable business value through incremental delivery
  • Build prototypes and proofs of concept to test architectural choices and illustrate their value
  • Apply CI&T’s shared data methodologies while contributing experience to the broader practice
  • Support an end-to-end strategic technology engagement for a US-based EdTech client

Requirements

  • C1-level English or higher is required for daily communication with North American stakeholders
  • Demonstrated expertise in data architecture and hands-on leadership of multidisciplinary data teams
  • Strong background designing, building, and deploying large-scale data pipelines, lakehouse architectures, and data products
  • Practical Databricks experience, including Delta Lake and Unity Catalog, or equivalent expertise with AWS data services
  • Advanced SQL skills and strong command of dimensional Kimball and relational data modeling
  • Experience with workflow orchestration and pipeline automation using tools such as dbt, Databricks Workflows, or Apache Airflow
  • Ability to convert business challenges into effective data solutions and explain trade-offs to both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Availability to work in a nearshore model with regular overlap during US Central business hours
  • Databricks certification is preferred
  • Experience with Snowflake or a comparable cloud data warehouse is preferred
  • Understanding of data governance and privacy practices in regulated sectors is preferred
  • Experience implementing CI/CD and MLOps pipelines is preferred
  • Familiarity with AI solutions and agentic coding workflows is preferred
  • Background leading consultative data assessments and modernization programs is preferred
  • Spanish or Portuguese proficiency is preferred

Benefits

  • Premium healthcare coverage
  • Meal voucher
  • Maternity and parental leave
  • Mobile services subsidy
  • Sick pay and life insurance
  • Access to CI&T University
  • Colombian public holidays
  • Paid vacation

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