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Data lead responsible for structuring and scaling engineering teams in Cappta, a Brazilian fintech specialized in payment solutions. Focus on decision-making architecture and team development.
Responsibilities:
- Structure, lead and develop the team, taking responsibility for selecting new talent, managing team morale and conducting 1:1s, continuous feedback and performance reviews;
- Act as a strategic partner, negotiating scope, deadlines and priorities with stakeholders and senior leadership;
- Define the technical vision and roadmap for the data platform, aligning architecture with business objectives;
- Prioritize the backlog together with Product Managers, ensuring predictability and quality of deliveries;
- Manage incidents and risks, coordinating war rooms and leading post-mortems with a focus on continuous improvement;
- Make architecture and stack decisions, evaluating trade-offs between cost, performance and market solutions (build vs. buy);
- Establish engineering standards, such as code guidelines, design reviews and reusable frameworks;
- Solve complex technical challenges and perform critical code reviews on strategic projects;
- Ensure governance and compliance, overseeing LGPD (Brazilian Data Protection Law), security and cost optimization (FinOps).
Requirements:
- Proven experience structuring and leading engineering teams, with a focus on career development, performance and team morale management;
- Strategic architecture mindset, able to make high-impact technical decisions and lead complex migrations;
- Strong communication and negotiation skills, translating business requirements for the technical team and reporting progress clearly to senior leadership;
- Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL for data engineering, query optimization and dimensional modeling;
- Hands-on experience with Big Data and distributed processing, especially Apache Spark and PySpark (tuning, shuffles and partitioning);
- Deep knowledge of the Databricks ecosystem (Unity Catalog, Delta Live Tables, Workflows and Lakehouse);
- Experience with workflow orchestration, preferably Apache Airflow;
- Quality and observability mindset, ensuring metrics monitoring, actionable alerts and data governance;
- Knowledge of FinOps for monitoring and optimizing cloud platform spending.
Benefits:
- Cappta is a Brazilian fintech that has operated in the payments market for more than a decade, with the mission to accelerate the growth of Brazilian entrepreneurs through simple, innovative and efficient financial solutions. With national presence and thousands of active customers, the company has been transforming how businesses manage payments by offering a complete platform that integrates technology, intelligence and automation to optimize retailers’ financial management.
- More than a technology company, Cappta positions itself as a partner to its customers, helping them gain efficiency, increase sales and simplify daily financial processes.
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