Freelance - Senior Data Engineer (LATAM based)
Core
Build the structured core of a governed data foundation on Databricks used by AI agents, applications, and business teams.
Role type
Senior Freelance Data Engineer
Builds
Production-grade data pipelines, certified tables, access controls, and APIs/MCP tools serving data with caller permissions
Domain
AI consulting, Data Engineering, Data Governance
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Databricks (Unity Catalog), SQL, Python, Spark/PySpark, Data Modeling (SCD Type 2, temporal validity), Data Quality (dbt, Great Expectations), Entity Resolution, CDC/Streaming, Row-level security, API development, AI coding tools (Claude, Cursor)
Preferred skills
Multi-tenant data isolation, Finance/CRM data (NetSuite, Salesforce), Unstructured content ingestion, Semantic layer design, FinOps
Technologies
Databricks, Unity Catalog, dbt, Great Expectations, Python, Spark, PySQL, Claude, Cursor
Responsibilities
Reconcile business entities across systems with different identifiers, enforce access control in production, build APIs and MCP tools serving data, implement data quality tests and CI/CD for data, work autonomously with business stakeholders to challenge definitions
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
