Principal Data Developer (Databricks)

Location: Brazil; remote home office

Company

AI and technology transformation services for large enterprises, including data platforms, AI deployment, application modernization, and business strategy.

What you will do

• Design and build a scalable Databricks lakehouse platform from raw data ingestion through downstream consumption layers.
• Define the end-to-end data lifecycle architecture for analytics, machine learning, and business intelligence use cases.
• Implement production-grade data pipelines, frameworks, and platform services through hands-on coding and code reviews.
• Clean, transform, and resolve entities across large volumes of unstructured legal records and historical case data.
• Provision and scale cloud infrastructure as code and establish engineering, code quality, and architecture standards.
• Present and defend technical decisions with client leadership while mentoring engineers in a lean, AI-native team.

Requirements

• Extensive hands-on experience building enterprise-grade data platforms from scratch as both an architect and individual contributor.
• Deep expertise in Databricks and lakehouse architecture.
• Experience with at least one major cloud platform: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Strong Infrastructure as Code skills with Terraform, OpenTofu, or AWS CDK.
• Strong knowledge of data modeling, distributed computing, ETL/ELT design, entity resolution, and data platform development.
• Advanced English proficiency is required for daily technical and strategic communication with US-based client leadership.

Nice to have

• AWS experience and Databricks certifications.
• Experience in legal services, financial services, or other document- and precedent-intensive industries.
• Experience in small AI-native delivery teams and familiarity with AI/ML platform architecture.

Culture & Benefits

• Work remotely from Brazil in a lean, AI-native delivery team.
• Collaborate closely with an AI architecture counterpart and a client product owner.
• Access the benefits package provided for CI&T employees in Brazil.

Hiring process

• Prepare and present an assessment during the selection process.
• Support is available for obtaining the assessment if needed.