Data Engineer Consultant

We improve lives

The IDB Invest, a member of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group, is a multilateral organization based in Washington, D.C., committed to developing Latin America and the Caribbean through the private sector.

About this position

IDB Invest is seeking a Data Engineer Consultant with strong technical skills to join a team of staff and consultants in the data management and analytics office. The data engineer will work closely to implement large-scale data ecosystems including data management, governance, and the integration of structured and unstructured data to generate insights leveraging cloud-based platforms.

The position requires a highly motivated and versatile candidate with strong technical knowledge and extensive data management skills on the latest tools and platforms to join the data team responsible for technical deliverables to provide business decision makers with information upon which they can make more accurate and effective decisions across multiple domains. The data engineer's primary responsibility will be to use best-practice data integration techniques to connect data modelers and support the needs of data scientists and/or data-intensive analytical applications.

Our Team: Data Management and Analytics is the team under the AKI Division responsible for defining and implementing the data strategy for IDB Invest.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, and launch highly efficient and reliable data pipelines to move data and provide intuitive analytics to our partner teams.
• Collaborate with other engineers and Data Scientists to discover the best solutions.
• Diagnose and solve issues in our existing data pipelines and envision and build their successors.
• Building data pipelines to collect data and move it into storage, Preparing the data as part of an ETL or ELT process.
• Work with complex technical data stores such as relational databases, Azure BLOB, Azure Data Lake store, and DataBricks.

What you'll need

Education: A bachelor’s degree in computer science, data science, software engineering, information systems, or related quantitative field; master’s degree preferred

Experience:

• 4+ years of experience working as a data engineer.
• Minimum 2+ years’ experience working with the Databricks platform.
• Ability to design, build, and deploy data solutions that capture, explore, transform, and utilize data to support AI, ML, and BI
• Great communication and collaboration skills
• Loves thinking out of the box to solve challenges at an unprecedented scale.
• Knowledge of data governance solutions such Collibra will be considered a plus.

Languages: You are proficient in written and verbal communication in English and in a second official language of the IDB Group (Spanish, Portuguese or French).

Requirements

• Citizenship: No requirements

• Consanguinity: You have no family members (up to the fourth degree of consanguinity and second degree of affinity, including spouse) working at the IDB, IDB Invest, or IDB Lab.

Type of contract and duration

- International consultant: International consultant Full-Time, 19 months

What we offer

The IDB group provides benefits that respond to the different needs and moments of an employee's life. These benefits include: 2 days leave per month.

Our culture

At the IDB, we work so everyone brings their best and authentic selves to work while finding their purpose. Our people consistently strive for excellence, and we recognize and celebrate the impact of their contributions.

In our efforts to drive innovation, we intentionally include all voices, cultivate a sense of belonging and champion fairness. We welcome individuals from underrepresented groups to join us and share their unique perspectives.

We ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job interview process. If you require an accommodation to complete this application, please email us at accommodations@iadb.org.