Data Engineer
Light-it is looking for an experienced Data Engineer to build and maintain production data pipelines on the Databricks Lakehouse Platform for regulated industries like healthcare. The role requires hands-on expertise in Python/PySpark, Spark SQL, Delta Lake, dbt, SQL, and data modeling, with a strong focus on data reliability, security, compliance, and traceability in SOC 2-certified environments.
CABA / AMBA (Arg) or Montevideo (Uru)
Hybrid
Semi-Senior

Main required skills
- Proven experience as a Data Engineer or similar role, building and operating production data pipelines
- Strong hands-on production experience with Databricks, including notebooks and repos (Git folders), job clusters, and SQL warehouses
- Strong hands-on experience with Python and PySpark for data ingestion and transformation, and with Apache Spark fundamentals (partitioning, shuffles, joins, performance tuning)
- Production experience with Delta Lake andthe medallion (bronze/silver/gold)architecture, including MERGE/upserts, timetravel, and schema enforcement
- Production experience with DatabricksWorkflows / Lakeflow Jobs for pipelineorchestration, including task design,scheduling, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Experience with Unity Catalog forgovernance, lineage, and access control
- Production experience with dbt for datamodeling and transformation, ideally onDatabricks
- Strong SQL skills (Spark SQL / Databricks SQL)and experience with Postgres or similarrelational databases
- Familiarity with the underlying cloud (AWSpreferred: S3, IAM; Azure or GCP Databricksexperience is also welcome)
- Understanding of data ingestion patterns,including file-based, streaming, andAPI/system-to-system integration
- Experience maintaining data lineage,traceability, and auditability across a pipeline
- Comfort working within a regulated orcompliance-driven environment (e.g., SOC-2,HIPAA, or similar)
- Experience working in a sprint-based agiledelivery model, coordinating with cross-functional engineering teams
- Strong documentation and communicationskills; able to work effectively with bothtechnical and non-technical stakeholders
- Many of our projects involve business-critical data governed by regulatory requirements, so comfort operating in a regulated environment matters as much as pipeline engineering skill
- Advanced English
We are looking for someone able to
Other valuable skills
- Databricks certifications: Data EngineerAssociate and/or Data Engineer Professional
- Experience with Databricks Asset Bundlesand CI/CD for Databricks (e.g., GitLab CI/CDor GitHub Actions), and Terraform (Databricksprovider) for workspace and Unity Cataloginfrastructure-as-code
- Experience with Apache Airflow or otherexternal orchestrators triggering Databricksjobs
- Exposure to Snowflake or other cloud datawarehouses (e.g., Amazon Redshift)
- Familiarity with Databricks AI/BI dashboardsand Genie, or MLflow
- Experience with AWS Secrets Manager /Databricks secret scopes and AWSCloudWatch or similar monitoring
- Experience with drug supply chain, pharmacylicensing, or similar healthcare regulatoryframeworks
- Experience with state-level or federalregulatory and compliance systems
- Prior work with not-for-profit orgovernmental organizations
- Familiarity with C#
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