Valtech

Senior Data Engineer

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1 month ago
Remote, PortugalSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement scalable cloud data platforms and batch, streaming, and near-real-time pipelines on AWS/Databricks or Azure/Fabric.
  • Develop ingestion, transformation, curation, data modeling, and data-serving workflows for structured and unstructured data.
  • Implement lakehouse architectures and bronze, silver, and gold medallion layers.
  • Deliver production-grade datasets and pipelines supporting analytics, machine learning, causal modeling, optimization, GenAI, RAG, LLM, and agent-based systems.
  • Orchestrate and automate end-to-end workflows while maintaining reliability, scalability, performance, and maintainability.
  • Apply data governance, lineage, quality, access-control, monitoring, observability, and SLA practices.
  • Optimize pipelines and infrastructure for performance, scalability, cost efficiency, and production readiness.
  • Discover and refine business requirements by analyzing stakeholder needs, challenging assumptions, and recommending better alternatives.
  • Collaborate with data scientists, ML engineers, analysts, platform teams, and business stakeholders to deliver robust data products.

Requirements

  • Strong hands-on experience with Apache Spark and Delta Lake.
  • Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
  • Proven experience building batch and streaming data pipelines and production-grade data platforms.
  • Solid understanding of data modeling, data quality, governance, lakehouse architectures, distributed data systems, scalability, reliability, and performance.
  • Deep hands-on expertise in either AWS data services and Databricks Lakehouse Platform or Microsoft Azure/Fabric and associated data tooling.
  • AWS track experience may include S3, Glue, EMR, Redshift, Kinesis, and Lambda.
  • Azure/Fabric track experience may include Data Factory, Synapse, Fabric Lakehouse, and Azure Databricks.
  • Strong problem-solving, collaboration, detailed analysis, business curiosity, and experience-based requirements discovery skills.
  • Experience in both AWS and Azure/Fabric, Snowflake, GCP, GenAI data systems, RAG pipelines, vector databases, LLM data preparation, CI/CD for data pipelines, Terraform, CloudFormation, Kafka, Spark optimization, advanced analytics, causal or experimentation platforms, data products, or large-scale analytics platforms is beneficial.

Benefits

  • Remote and hybrid work options are available depending on country.
  • Career advancement, international mobility, professional development programs, training, and access to industry experts are offered.
  • The position is based in Portugal, with location-specific benefits provided during the hiring process.

Tech Stack

Amazon RedshiftApache AirflowApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureDatabricksdbtGoogle Cloud PlatformMLflowPythonSnowflakeSQLTerraform

Categories

Data Engineering
Valtech

About Valtech

5,001-10,000 employees

Valtech provides digital consulting and engineering services to large enterprises, delivering customer experience design, commerce platforms, data/AI solutions, and transformation programs. It works across sectors such as retail, financial services, manufacturing, mobility, health, and travel, offering strategy, design, build, and managed services. Founded in 1993, Valtech is a global company privately held under Kharis Capital.

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