Position Description:

The mission takes place within the data platform team whose common motivations are proximity to business lines, agility, and quality in delivering services, combining business and IT skills.
The objective is to maintain and enhance the data platform with new functionalities responding to strategic business needs and IT guidelines.
The role supports business teams in defining their needs, developing the right IT solutions, and delivering related projects in compliance with planning, budget, scope, and quality commitments.
In an agile product environment (build/run activities), delivery is achieved through successive releases of features associated with the prioritized data scopes and use cases.

Reporting
The Data Engineer works closely with the team, especially the Product Owner, Tech Lead Data Engineer, Solution Architect, and Business Analysts.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

Acquire knowledge of the data platform, its features, and use cases.
Contribute to RUN tasks to maintain the platform and propose/implement improvements to simplify and increase reliability.
Stay informed about strategic plans to enhance the platform’s capabilities.
Actively participate in projects related to data engineering (study/analysis/development/tests/documentation) ranging from collection, ingestion, integration, and exposure of data.
In more detail, tasks include:
Carrying out production monitoring.
Processing business requests (evolutions/issues).
Providing quality user support.
Collecting, analyzing, and challenging business needs, providing technical expertise and tailored solutions within the existing ecosystem and constraints.
Collaborating closely with IT teams (developers, service centers, test centers) and project managers.
Adapting to functional and technical contexts and upgrading skills when needed.
Working closely with other data engineers and developers in Portugal and abroad.
Following technical roadmaps required by IT Group and maintaining/developing IT solutions accordingly.
Monitoring product performance indicators and reporting to management.
Fixing issues and ensuring remediation.
Writing and updating technical documentation.
Proactively proposing technical optimizations and efficiency improvements.
Actively contributing to agile ceremonies (planning, backlog refinement, sprint review, demo, retrospective, daily meetings).

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

Main Skills
Data pipeline and data processing (expert).
AirFlow orchestrator (expert).
Programming languages: Python or Java (Spring Boot, Spring Batch) – intermediate/expert.
KSH, SQL (development).
Web services: REST and API management (proficient).
CI/CD toolchains (principles, tools, automation).
English – C1.
Knowledge as a software developer/data engineer:
DevOps tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD)
Security rules and protocols
File transfer protocols (CFT)
Distributed architectures
Cloud environments (Docker, Kubernetes, pods)
Relational databases (Oracle, Exadata, SQL).

Optional Skills
Cloud concepts: containers, object storage, S3-type protocols.
Object-oriented programming and microservices architecture (intermediate/expert).
Starburst (knowledge or willingness to learn).
Kafka (experience or willingness to learn).
Spark (experience or willingness to learn).
French – B1.
Java frontend with Angular (experience or willingness to learn).


Must be physically in Portugal, and a work at the office 3/5 days a week

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