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Hand Talk

Data Engineer Lead – Tech Lead, Data Engineering

Hand Talk

Lead Data Engineer managing a team for Data Lakehouse implementation at HandTalk. Collaborate with data architects to enhance data accessibility and quality.

Posted 4/29/2026full-timeRemote • 🇧🇷 BrazilSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AirflowApacheAWSCloudEC2GrafanaPrometheusPythonSQLTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Define the team’s technical priorities, translating the Head of Data Engineering’s business vision into actionable technical requirements;
  • Mentorship and Code Review: Raise the team’s technical standard through rigorous code reviews and continuous mentoring of data engineers;
  • Governance and Standards: Establish Data Quality standards, pipeline observability, and data lineage documentation;
  • Infrastructure Decisions: Lead the Infrastructure-as-Code strategy (Terraform), ensuring consistent development, staging, and production environments;
  • Data Culture: Promote a data-driven culture and platform adoption by eliminating manual processes and silos;

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Technical Skills:
  • - Large-scale data architecture with a focus on high performance and low cost;
  • - Proficiency in Python and SQL;
  • - Proven experience leading technical data engineering teams;
  • - Proven experience managing, deploying, and maintaining data platforms (Data Warehouse, Data Lakes, and Data Lakehouses);
  • - Software engineering knowledge including API design, design patterns, and platform maintenance;
  • - Tech stack: solid/advanced knowledge of Apache Iceberg, AWS (EC2, Glue, Athena, DataZone, Lake Formation), Airflow, Terraform, DBT, Prometheus, and Grafana;
  • - Advanced English (written and spoken).
  • Behavioral Skills:
  • - Ability to anticipate how a platform change or a new data source may impact the published data and platform architecture;
  • - Ability to guide the team in making technical decisions without relying on hierarchical authority;
  • - Ability to identify technical and behavioral improvement opportunities for team members and act in a humane, individualized way;
  • - Clear, objective communication;
  • - Autonomy and resilience;
  • - Ability to translate technical concepts for a diverse group of stakeholders.
  • Differentiators:
  • - Experience with complex migrations from legacy data lakes or manual processes to a modern Lakehouse;
  • - Integrations with hybrid and multi-cloud environments;
  • - Experience with Data Governance;
  • - Experience driving platform adoption in large organizations.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • CLT employment contract: Your security and full labor rights guaranteed from day one.
  • Caju Benefits Card (BRL 1,160): Flexibility to use your balance as you prefer—meal, food, home office, culture, or mobility!
  • Remote work — from wherever you are!
  • SulAmérica health plan
  • SulAmérica dental plan
  • SulAmérica life insurance
  • Online consultations with specialists via Conexa Saúde telemedicine
  • Wellhub: support to help you perform at your best
  • Extended year-end break: celebrate the holidays with more peace of mind
  • Birthday day off: a special day of rest during your birthday month
  • Extended parental leave: support and quality time for those growing their families
  • Continuous professional development: access to top platforms like LinkedIn Learning, plus an annual allowance for courses and training
  • University partnerships: support to go further through discounts and giveaways
  • Libras training: learn Brazilian Sign Language to better support our community
  • English language support: we encourage language learning through partnerships
  • Work equipment shipped to you as part of your onboarding kit.

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLdata architecturedata engineeringAPI designdesign patternsApache IcebergAWSTerraformAirflow
Soft Skills
mentorshipcode reviewclear communicationautonomyresiliencetechnical decision-makinganticipation of impactidentifying improvement opportunitiesguiding teamstranslating technical concepts