Data Engineer Analyst

Location: Montevideo, Montevideo Department, uy, Remote

Company Description

Blend is a premier AI services provider, committed to co-creating meaningful impact for its clients through the power of data science, AI, technology, and people. With a mission to fuel bold visions, Blend tackles significant challenges by seamlessly aligning human expertise with artificial intelligence. The company is dedicated to unlocking value and fostering innovation for its clients by harnessing world-class people and data-driven strategy. We believe that the power of people and AI can have a meaningful impact on your world, creating more fulfilling work and projects for our people and clients. For more information, visit www.blend360.com

We are seeking a Data Engineer Analyst to contribute to our next level of growth and expansion.

Job Description

What is this position about?

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines and ingestion frameworks supporting batch processing, streaming, and change data capture (CDC) patterns.
• Develop and optimize data processing workflows using Apache Spark and PySpark, ensuring reliable and performant transformation across large datasets.
• Implement and manage data lake architectures on AWS, leveraging S3 as the primary storage layer and Apache Iceberg for table format management, schema evolution, and time-travel capabilities.
• Work with AWS-native services including Glue for ETL orchestration, Athena for serverless querying, and Lambda for event-driven data processing.
• Manage data access controls and security configurations using AWS IAM, ensuring compliant and least-privilege access across the data platform.
• Collaborate with data analysts, data scientists, and platform engineers to understand data requirements and deliver production-ready solutions.
• Monitor pipeline health, troubleshoot data quality issues, and implement improvements to ensure data reliability and freshness.
• Contribute to the documentation of data flows, architecture decisions, and engineering standards within the team.

Qualifications

• Advanced hands-on experience with AWS services, including:
  • AWS Glue
  • Amazon S3
  • Amazon Athena
  • AWS IAM
• Apache Spark / PySpark for data processing.
• Data lake architectures, ideally with knowledge of Apache Iceberg.
• Data ingestion patterns, including batch processing, streaming, and CDC patterns
• Experience with SQL for data querying, validation, and exploratory analysis
• Solid understanding of data modeling and large-scale data processing
• Ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional teams and communicate technical concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code or pipeline orchestration tools (e.g., Airflow, Step Functions, dbt) is a plus.
• Familiarity with AI-assisted development workflows and engineering productivity tools

What about languages?

English: Advanced (required for effective communication with global teams)

How much experience must I have?

2+ years of experience in Data Engineering or related roles, with hands-on work building and maintaining cloud-based data pipelines and lake architectures on AWS.

Additional Information

Our Perks and Benefits:

🍽️ Every day lunches! (headquarters):

• Vegetarian, vegan, gluten and sugar free options.
• Gourmet meals every Friday with our on-site chef!

⚖️ Flexible working options to help you strike the right balance.

💻 All the equipment you need to harness your talent (Macbook and accessories).

🍎 Snacks and beverages available everyday (headquarters).

🎉 After office events, football, tennis and game nights (headquarters).

⚽ Everyone is welcome to join our football league every Wednesday’s and Friday’s.

🎱 Challenge your teammates to a pool game and win the office’s trophy!

🎾 Tennis courts available for friendly matches.

🎮 Not a sports person? Don’t worry, we also have chess championships, game and music nights for you to join!

📚 Learning opportunities:

• AWS Certifications (we are AWS Partners).
• Study plans, courses and other certifications.
• English Lessons.
• Learn from your teammates on our Tech Tuesdays!

🧭 Mentoring and Development opportunities to shape your career path.

🎁 Anniversary and birthday gifts.

📍 Great location and even greater teammates!

So what are the next steps?
Our team is eager to learn about you! Send us your resume or LinkedIn profile below and we’ll explore working together!