20 days ago
Lisbon, PortugalSenior
Responsibilities
- Define and own scalable, secure, and cost-efficient data architectures.
- Lead the design and delivery of data platforms, pipelines, and models for analytics and AI use cases.
- Build AI data foundations including RAG pipelines and embedding stores.
- Lead and mentor the team by setting technical priorities, standards, and best practices.
- Ensure production reliability, performance, and data quality.
- Act as the primary technical client contact and translate business needs into solution designs.
- Shape the technical roadmap, including tool selection and effort estimation.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in data engineering or related roles, including 1+ year as a technical lead, team lead, or solution architect.
- Demonstrated delivery of end-to-end data projects from requirements through production.
- Deep knowledge of GCP or AWS and cloud data warehouses such as BigQuery or Redshift.
- Working knowledge of generative AI concepts including embeddings, RAG, prompt engineering, and tool calling.
- Strong Python and SQL skills plus knowledge of data modeling, ETL/ELT, and modern data architectures.
- Understanding of data quality, governance, and security principles.
- Client-facing experience explaining technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, or a related field.
- Fluent English at C1 level or above.
- Preferred: GCP or AWS certifications, including Professional Data Engineer or Solutions Architect.
- Preferred: experience with Databricks, Airflow, Spark, agentic AI, LLM application development, pre-sales, consulting, or additional languages.
Tech Stack
Categories
Data Engineering
About Accenture
Accenture is a global professional services firm providing management consulting, systems integration and technology, cybersecurity, and business process outsourcing for enterprises and governments. It operates a services-driven model delivering projects and managed services, often with major cloud and software partners, across industries worldwide. Headquartered in Dublin and publicly traded on the NYSE (ACN), it originated as Andersen Consulting and adopted the Accenture name in 2001.