Data Engineer

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Job Summary: We are seeking a GCP Data Engineer to build and optimize data pipelines, provide technical leadership to the team, and implement Data Engineering best practices. Key Highlights: 1. Design and implement scalable data pipelines on GCP 2. Provide technical leadership and act as a bridge between business and technology 3. Establish and evangelize Data Engineering best practices **Job Description** ---------------------- Build and optimize robust data pipelines on GCP to enable analytics and ML across our three business units. 1\. Design and implement scalable data pipelines on GCP: Develop data ingestion, transformation, and orchestration solutions using BigQuery, Cloud Composer/Airflow, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub, applying serverless, stateless, and decoupled architecture principles to ensure performance and maintainability. 2\. Act as a technical leader and bridge between business and technology: Translate business requirements into viable technical solutions, coordinate with data architecture to define designs, establish SLAs, and manage stakeholder expectations through clear and realistic communication. 3\. Implement and optimize structured and unstructured data models: Design schemas in BigQuery, define partitioning/clustering strategies, and work with data lakes/lakehouses to ensure cost efficiency, query performance, and storage optimization based on use case. 4\. Establish and evangelize Data Engineering best practices: Implement coding standards (testing, CI/CD), modern ELT design patterns (DBT), observability practices (logging, monitoring, alerting), and data quality checks to elevate the team’s technical maturity. 5\. Provide technical mentorship to the team and maintain robust documentation: Offer guidance during code reviews, solution architecture, and complex troubleshooting; maintain up-to-date technical documentation in Confluence/Git covering pipelines, data lineage, and operational runbooks. **Candidate Requirements** -------------------------- * Required: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering, Industrial Engineering with Computing focus, or related field. * Experience with GCP (BigQuery, Cloud Composer/Airflow, Dataflow, and Pub/Sub). * Preferred: Role-related certifications. * English proficiency: Intermediate (spoken and written). This opportunity is open to persons with disabilities. **Selection Process** ------------------------ Join our team and become part of Falabella’s transformation: 1\. Apply to this position. 2\. Check your email. **About Us** ------------------ We are over 88,000 people who every day work toward our firm Purpose \- Simplify and Enjoy Life More. We operate in 9 countries and consist of five major brands across diverse industries: Falabella Retail, Sodimac, Banco Falabella, Tottus, and Mallplaza. Each brand shapes who we are, and together—as One Team—we strive daily to reinvent ourselves and exceed our customers’ expectations. A team full of dreams that makes things happen. We dare to launch and innovate, take risks, and create opportunities that keep us at the forefront—driving us to continuously reinvent ourselves to deliver the best shopping experience at every touchpoint with us.