Lead Teacher Data Engineering Bootcamp Full-Time

Lead Teacher Data Engineering Bootcamp Full-Time at Ironhack

About Ironhack

Ironhack is an education startup that was founded to disrupt the way tech education works!

We empower students to create a new path - one that leads to meaningful careers in software development, product design, or data analytics in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional education.

Our higher purpose is to transform the education space to be unapologetically outcomes-driven. Whether students are looking to change careers, get a promotion, skip University, or start their own company, we work tirelessly every day to make sure this path is as quick, immersive, and accessible as possible. Hearing these success stories is what gets us out of bed each day, excited to come to work :)

It’s with this mindset that we’ve become one of the key global players in bridging the digital skills gap, serving both those looking to get into tech, as well as the companies hungry for tech talent.

About the role

We are looking for a Full-Time Lead Instructor for our Data Engineering Bootcamp in our Remote campus. If you are passionate about building scalable data pipelines, modern cloud infrastructure, and love sharing your expertise with aspiring Data Engineers, this role might be just for you!

Responsibilities

Oversee the whole academic experience of the Ironhack bootcamp

• Teach at our Remote campus from Monday to Friday, 09:00 - 17:00
• Manage the Teaching Assistant to support the success of the class.
• Facilitate a safe, supportive, and energetic community that welcomes the various needs and learning styles of your students.
• Challenge students to think strategically as they turn data problems into production-grade data pipeline solutions.
• Inspire and support students as they identify their passions and drive their own continued learning beyond the curriculum.
• Collaborate with Program Managers to ensure that students achieve their professional goals (i.e., job seeking).
• Administer assessment tasks and give students timely and accurate feedback on learning outcomes.

The Ironhack experience

• Teach core data engineering topics including Python, SQL, Apache Airflow, dbt, Apache Spark, Kafka, and Cloud Data Warehousing (Snowflake/BigQuery).
• Guide students in using tools to build, automate, and manage ETL/ELT workflows, big data processing, and real-time streaming pipelines.
• Lead hands-on projects and activities to provide students with practical, job-ready skills, culminating in deployable, industry-grade capstone projects.
• Ensure students master the program’s outcomes, such as designing cloud-native data architectures, applying data governance/quality frameworks (Great Expectations), and automating infrastructure with Terraform/Docker.

Collaborate with Global Team

• Collaborate with the Education team to improve the curriculum.
• Work with the global team in the rollout of new teaching materials.
• Adapt our global curriculum and use it to guide your teaching, build your own lesson plans as needed, and contribute back your lessons learned over time.
• Create engaging content for our Data Engineering courses that may include lessons, exercises, and/or mini-projects.

Community Building

• Create a sense of community / Participate in the student experience by joining events.
• Facilitate a supportive and energetic community that lasts well beyond the course.

Requirements

• You have 3-5 years of experience in Data Engineering, ETL Development, or a related data infrastructure role, preferably in a leadership or senior capacity.
• You are fluent in English, as the classes will be imparted in that language; all in-company communication will be in English.
• You are passionate about data engineering best practices, cloud technology, and teaching.
• You are experienced with core data engineering tools like Python, SQL, Airflow, and a major cloud data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift). Experience with Spark or Kafka is a strong plus.
• You successfully created new techniques and materials.
• You can adjust lesson plans to take into account the learning success and difficulties.
• You can give clear instructions and organize an activity with guidance of the PM or TA.
• You can alternate between teaching the whole class and pair or group work giving clear instructions.
• You have experience in managing and keeping a team motivated.
• You proactively anticipate potential problems and take the necessary action to avoid them.
• You have great communication skills and an ability to capture people's attention.
• You are organized, reliable, communicative, open to feedback.
• You enjoy teaching/mentoring others that are involved in the tech community.

Our offer

• Competitive salary.
• A platform to explore teaching and share your professional expertise.
• Opportunity to make an impact by training the next generation of Data Engineers.
• Contribute to a globally taught, cutting-edge curriculum.
• Strengthen your leadership, management, and coaching skills.
• Internal mobility to become an SME or Curriculum Engineer.
• Being part of a fun and social learning environment.
• 100% Remote position.

Bootcamp Details

• Onboarding: January 5th, 2026
• Schedule: Monday - Friday, 09:00 - 18:00
• Looking for a commitment of 4 bootcamps
• Edition 1: February 2nd, 2026 - April 3rd, 2026
• Edition 2: April 20th, 2026 - June 19th, 2026
• Edition 3: September 7th, 2026 - November 6th, 2026
• Edition 4: November 23rd, 2026 - February 5th, 2027
• Language: English

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