IDB Invest - Data Engineer Consultant

IDB Invest - Data Engineer Consultant

City: Washington DC

Company: IDB Invest

Posting End Date: 9-16-2025

We improve lives

The IDB Group is a community of diverse, versatile, and passionate people who come together on a journey to improve lives in Latin America and the Caribbean. Our people find purpose and do what they love in an inclusive, collaborative, agile, and rewarding environment.

About this position

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

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.

Functional expertise: [i] You are able to work in a high-pressure environment while juggling multiple tasks, and effectively prioritize tasks, [ii] you are able to understand and translate clients’ (business units) needs into solutions, providing services that meet clients’ expectations for quality and performance; [iii] you listen actively, obtain necessary input, share ideas, speak persuasively, and convey information in a clear, objective, and concise manner.

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 Full-Time, 19 months (up to 36 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:

• A competitive compensation packages.

• Leaves and vacations: 2 days per month of contract gender- neutral parental leave.

• Health Insurance: the IDB Group provides a monthly allowance for the purchase of health insurance.

• Savings plan: The IDB Group cares about your future, depending on the length of the contract, you will receive a monthly savings plan allowance.

• We offer assistance with relocation and visa applications for you and your family when it applies.

• Hybrid and flexible work schedules.

• Development support: We offer learning opportunities to boost your professional profile such as seminars, 1:1 professional counseling, and much more.

• Health and wellbeing: Access to our Health Services Center which provides preventive care and health education for all employees.

• Other perks: Lactation Room, Daycare Center, Gym, Bike Racks, Parking, and others.

Our culture

At the IDB Group, 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.

Our Human Resources Team reviews carefully every application.