Freelance - Senior Data Engineer (LATAM based)
Arionkoder · Data · Senior · 22d ago
Open to candidates across LATAM.
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“Freelance - Senior Data Engineer (LATAM based)”
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- Contractor / B2B
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- Global stipend
- No home office or equipment budget mentioned.
- Annual retreat
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About the role
As a Freelance Data Engineer, you will build the structured core of a governed data foundation on Databricks supporting AI agents, applications, and business stakeholders. You will own business entity reconciliation across systems, temporal validity and lineage, certified table definitions, access controls, and data-serving APIs. Collaborating in a multidisciplinary team alongside client data platform engineers, you will establish trustworthy data pipelines that power modern AI products.
What you'll do
- Build production-grade data models and pipelines on Databricks utilizing Unity Catalog.
- Reconcile business entities and master data across multiple disparate source systems.
- Implement practical data governance, including row-level security, column masking, and attribute-based access control.
- Design history-aware data structures (SCD Type 2, temporal validity) with embedded lineage and provenance.
- Develop and maintain robust automated data quality tests, expectations, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Build APIs and MCP tools to serve certified data directly to downstream AI systems and applications.
What you bring
- 6+ years of professional data engineering experience building production-grade pipelines.
- 3+ years of production experience with Databricks, including Unity Catalog.
- Expertise in SQL and Python for data pipeline design and optimization.
- Proven background implementing entity resolution, incremental CDC processing, and production data governance.
- Hands-on experience using modern AI coding tools such as Claude or Cursor in day-to-day development.
- C1-level English proficiency and comfort working remotely directly with client teams.
About Arionkoder
Arionkoder is an AI consulting firm that helps organizations build, embed, and scale accountable AI solutions and digital products by combining product development, artificial intelligence, and team augmentation.
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