Data Engineer (AI Platforms). Canada, LATAM (B2B contract)

Are you passionate about building the data foundations for a new generation of AI? We're looking for a skilled Data Engineer to be a major contributor to our company's intelligent future. You won't just be maintaining systems; you'll be at the heart of building, scaling, and deploying the data and AI platforms that will redefine how we deliver data solutions. This is an opportunity to make a significant impact by transforming our data landscape and enabling cutting\-edge AI and agentic workflows. **Our philosophy is that we are a small, close\-knit team, and we care deeply about you:** * Competitive pay rates * Fully remote work environments * Self\-managed time off **Important:** * This is a full\-time remote job, and it will be **a long\-term** **B2B contract.** * On our website in JD, you can see the locations for this role: Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Panama, Peru #### **What You'll Do** * **Design, build, and optimize** robust, scalable data pipelines, leading the migration from legacy systems to our modern, AI\-centric platform. * **Evolve our data models** and schemas to better support complex analytics, AI training, and fine\-tuning workloads. * **Collaborate with AI/ML teams** to productionize models, streamline training data delivery, and support the development of sophisticated agentic systems. * **Empower the organization** by partnering with BI developers and analysts to design highly efficient queries and unlock new insights. * **Champion data governance and compliance**, ensuring our data handling practices remain secure and trustworthy as we innovate. #### **Challenges You'll Help Us Tackle** * **Modernize Our Data Backbone:** Lead the charge in migrating our historical data flows to cutting\-edge, AI\-driven workflows. * **Shape the Future of our AI:** Redesign our datasets and schemas to be well aligned for training and fine\-tuning next\-generation models. * **Build the Brains of the Operation:** Play an important role in the infrastructure that supports powerful, data\-driven Agentic Agents. * **Scale with Intelligence:** Help us build a data ecosystem that is not only powerful today but is ready for the demands of tomorrow's AI. * **Proven experience (4\+ years)** in a data engineering role, with a track record of building and managing complex data systems. * **Deep expertise in SQL** and query optimization. * Hands\-on experience with cloud data warehouses and databases, specifically **Google BigQuery** and **CloudSQL (PostgreSQL)**. * **Programming experience** with Python or JAVA * A proactive and **self\-motivated \& managed mindset**, perfect for a fully remote environment with a high degree of autonomy. * **Excellent communication and documentation skills**; you can clearly articulate complex technical concepts to diverse audiences. * The ability to work a **flexible schedule** and the readiness to respond to occasional off\-hours emergencies. #### **Bonus Points For** * **AI/ML Tooling:** Experience with Google's VertexAI platform. * **Programming Languages:** Proficiency in Go. * **DE tools** : familiarity with dbt and airflow * **Streaming Data:** Familiarity with event\-streaming platforms like Apache Kafka. * **Streaming Analytics**: Real time streaming analytics * **DevOps \& Infrastructure:** Experience with containerization (Docker) and serverless compute (Google Cloud Run) * **Legacy Systems:** Experience with Perl or PHP is a plus.