Engenheiro de Dados Especialista

The Data Governance Specialist at iFood will define and implement data governance policies, focusing on Data Quality and Data Reliability, collaborating with engineering, architecture, and data teams to ensure data accuracy, completeness, and availability for business decisions.

Location: Remote (Brazil)

Responsibilities

• Define policies and processes for data governance with a focus on Data Quality.
• Design and build solutions to facilitate adherence to governance policies, defining quality dimensions and metrics.
• Participate in defining and evolving the Data Governance framework, promoting data culture and Data Quality discipline.
• Support initiatives of new technologies and data practices ensuring governance is integrated.
• Develop monitors and indicators of governance, such as data asset reliability scorecards, validation, testing, and alerts.
• Develop and promote the use of reusable libraries, data profiling, and anomaly detection at scale.
• Collaborate with architects and engineers to ensure data pipelines comply with governance policies.

Requirements

• Experience in data governance (Data Governance, Data Stewardship, Metadata Management), especially Data Quality initiatives.
• Ability to adapt governance theory to daily operations, with deep knowledge of data quality dimensions.
• Experience in monitoring, alerts, troubleshooting data issues, and Data Incident Response processes.
• Experience in Data Engineering or Software (building data pipelines, microservices, git, testing, modularization, orchestration).
• Understanding of data lifecycle and modern architecture principles (Data Lake, Lake house, Data Warehouse).
• Knowledge of Cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Ability to write and interpret SQL queries and Python scripts for data analysis, transformation, and validation.
• Good communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience with metadata management, data lineage, and data classification.