Full-Stack Data Engineer
Job Title: Full-Stack Data Engineer
Job Location: Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
Job Location Type: Remote
Job Contract Type: Full-time
Job Seniority Level:
We are looking for a passionate Full Stack Data Engineer who will help strengthen our data engineering capability with modern software engineering practices. This individual will build robust, maintainable, and scalable data solutions across the data lifecycle, while also contributing to the team’s wider engineering standards, tooling, and ways of working.
This is a hands-on engineering role for someone who is equally comfortable developing data pipelines, Python services, and automation for deployment and operations, and who can partner effectively with architects, analysts, product teams, and other engineers to deliver reliable data products.
Roles & Responsibilities
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Design, build, and support scalable data pipelines, data products, and data applications that serve business and analytics needs.
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Apply software engineering best practices to data engineering, including modular design, version control, code review, automated testing, documentation, and maintainable architecture.
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Develop Python-based solutions for data processing, orchestration, integration, automation, and supporting application components where required.
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Own and improve DevOps/DataOps practices for data solutions, including CI/CD, environment promotion, release automation, observability, incident response, and production support.
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Deliver robust, cost-effective, and automated solutions to address recurring business questions and analytical demands.
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Design and implement data solutions aligned with enterprise standards, architecture roadmaps, and platform best practices, working closely with Data Architects and Solution Architects.
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Test and quality assure data and analytics solutions to ensure they are fit for release, including code assurance, unit testing, integration testing, data validation, performance tuning, and release management.
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Support operational excellence through proactive monitoring, root-cause analysis, issue resolution, and continuous improvement of SLAs and service reliability.
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Promote engineering consistency across the team by disseminating best practices, coaching peers, contributing reusable patterns, and helping improve standards, tooling, and ways of working.
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Evaluate and adopt new technologies relevant to data engineering, software engineering, and platform automation, including proof-of-value assessments and contribution to business cases.
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Contribute to estimates, delivery planning, and solution design for new data initiatives and enhancements.
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Ensure business data assets are delivered as trusted, discoverable, and reusable data products/services for broader enterprise consumption, in alignment with strategic data principles.
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Collaborate with stakeholders to translate business requirements into reliable technical solutions, define acceptance criteria, and establish appropriate operational and service expectations.
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Maintain ongoing professional development in modern data, cloud, and engineering practices to help keep AstraZeneca current with a changing technology landscape.
Mandatory Skills
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Strong software engineering background, with hands-on experience building production-grade solutions using sound engineering principles such as modular design, testing, code review, and maintainability.
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Strong Python engineering skills, including building reusable packages, APIs, automation scripts, data processing components, and integration services.
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Hands-on experience designing and operating solutions in Snowflake, including virtual warehouse configuration, resource monitors, governance, and performance tuning.
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Expert SQL for analytics and transformation, with strong skills in query optimization, pruning, caching behavior, and result set reuse.
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Experience building robust pipelin