Data & AI Engineer

Description

**Want to make a difference in the new economy and transform people and businesses to thrive? Join Cadastra!** As a **Data & AI Engineer**, you will play a strategic, hands-on (builder) role. Your mission will be to develop architectural solutions, frameworks, and tools to support the accelerated growth of our clients. We’re looking for someone who goes beyond coding: you’ll be responsible for guiding the team on industry best practices, rapidly prototyping new technologies, and building scalable solutions. Here, you’ll work with the vision that **data and AI models are products** that deliver real value across multiple business areas (coordination, executive leadership, etc.), collaborating *cross-functionally* with various teams. **This position is fully remote.** **Responsibilities and duties** **In our Data Hub, you’ll face these challenges:** * **Propose and build:** Design modern architectural solutions (with focus on Data Lakehouse) and rapidly test new technologies. * **Develop:** Build efficient data processes and pipelines (ETL/ELT) using industry best practices. * **Automate and orchestrate:** Create automations in Cloud environments (GCP, AWS, or Azure), ensuring high performance, security, and data governance. * **Adopt a product mindset:** Ensure the data platform is scalable, flexible, and oriented toward serving business areas with structured data and AI models. * **Facilitate and translate:** Serve as the bridge between technical and business stakeholders, translating complex engineering and AI concepts into accessible, pedagogical language. * **Collaborate:** Support peers and teams in adopting industry best practices, acting as a technical reference. **Requirements and qualifications** **What Cadastra expects from you:** **Hard Skills** * **Proficiency in Python:** Essential for developing Data Engineering and AI solutions; * **Data Architecture:** Solid experience with modern architectures, especially **Data Lakehouse**; * **Cloud Computing:** Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (**AWS, Azure, or GCP**), focusing on managed data and AI services; * **Orchestration and Pipelines:** Experience with data workflow orchestration tools (preferably Airflow); * **Data Processing:** Strong knowledge of SQL and ETL/ELT processes (extraction via APIs, sanitization, deduplication, aggregation, anonymization); * **Best Practices:** Experience with CI/CD (GitHub Actions / Cloud Build) and participation in agile methodology projects. **Soft Skills** * **Autonomy and Proactivity (Builder):** Hands-on profile — curious, independent, capable of proposing solutions and validating hypotheses rapidly. * **Product Mindset:** Ability to understand that the end goal of engineering isn’t just data, but rather the product (data/AI) that serves and solves pain points across other company departments. * **Pedagogy and Collaboration:** Excellent communication skills to translate the “alphabet soup” of AI engineering for business teams, ensuring alignment and engagement. **Additional information** **What we offer:** * Meal and food allowance on FLASH card * Remote work allowance on FLASH card * Health insurance * Dental insurance * Birthday day off \+ amount deposited on FLASH card * Extended maternity and paternity leave * Profit-sharing program (PLR) * Life insurance * Childcare allowance * Referral bonus * Transportation voucher * Clude \| Health Platform Total Pass * We are a global technology, strategy, marketing, and data services company with 25 years of experience leading digital transformations and strategies that accelerate the growth of large enterprises’ digital and physical channels. Hybrid by nature, we’re spread across the globe! We have over 900 employees, with offices in São Paulo, Porto Alegre, and London — plus many other Cadastrers (as we call ourselves here) working fully remotely. At Cadastra, we share one common goal: transforming people and businesses to thrive. Over 400 brands across more than 15 sectors — including Kopenhagen, Mitsubishi, Unilever, Uber, and many others — have already trusted our work. **Our operations are organized into the following divisions:** * Business \& Strategy * Commerce * Media Services * CRM \& Customer Experience * Digital Performance * Data, Analytics \& AI * Design \& Creativity * Transformative Engineering * Influence \& Content Marketing * Cloud Services The excellence of our work has been recognized through prestigious awards. In 2022, we led the ISG Provider Lens Martech report, won the Salesforce Partner Innovation Awards in the Marketing Consulting category, and were nominated for the Caboré Award. We also made the Financial Times 2023 list of the fastest-growing companies in the Americas, among other achievements. Our growth goes hand-in-hand with building a more sustainable and inclusive world. For over eight years, we’ve been certified as a Great Place To Work, and diversity is a core pillar for us: 59% of leadership roles are held by women, and 19% of our professionals identify as LGBTQIAPN\+. **COME SEE WHY THIS IS YOUR PLACE!** Want to grow continuously, work collaboratively, and generate real, high-impact results in the market? Join us! **Our values:** * Courage to explore; * Efficiency to achieve; * Impact to resonate; * Learning to transform; * Partnership to innovate. **OUR CLT BENEFITS:** Meal and food allowance on FLASH card Remote work allowance on FLASH card Health insurance according to your location Dental insurance according to your location Birthday day off \+ amount deposited on FLASH card Extended maternity and paternity leave Profit-sharing program (PLR) Life insurance Childcare allowance Referral bonus Transportation voucher Clude \| Health Platform Total Pass Partnership with Fecap — discounts of 10% to 20% on undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA, and master’s degree programs