Data Engineer
About the Data Engineer role
As a Data Engineer, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with a leading European mobility services provider, backed by nearly 90 years of expertise. As part of this journey, you’ll contribute to the launch of a new Tech Hub in Portugal, helping to drive innovative, technology-led solutions that are transforming how businesses move while contributing to a more sustainable future.
Key Responsibilities as a Data Engineer
- Build and maintain batch, CDC, and streaming data pipelines across SAP, Kafka, APIs, and databases.
- Develop scalable data solutions using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Spark, SQL, and Delta Lake.
- Implement data quality, monitoring, observability, alerting, and data contract controls.
- Optimize pipeline performance, cost efficiency, and security through Unity Catalog.
- Contribute reusable frameworks, CI/CD processes, and data engineering best practices.
- Collaborate with DataOps, ML Engineering, AI, Analytics Engineers, and cross-functional teams.
- Deliver trusted, curated data to support analytics and AI products.
- Participate in code reviews and support continuous improvement initiatives.
- Good understanding of end-to-end data engineering, data quality, and data lifecycle management.
- Experience working with data contracts, stakeholder collaboration, and analytics-driven use cases.
- Experience with SAP, high-volume transactional data, and data mesh principles (nice to have).
Job Qualifications
- Proficiency in Python or Scala and SQL for production data pipelines.
- Practical experience with Spark, Delta Lake and Databricks, including basic performance optimisation.
- Experience with batch pipelines and at least one of change data capture or streaming patterns.
- Practical experience with Azure data services, including Azure Data Factory.
- Experience with automated data-quality testing and pipeline monitoring.
- Working knowledge of Git, CI/CD and code review.
- Working knowledge of Unity Catalog or comparable data-governance and access-control tooling.
- Confluent Kafka, Spark Structured Streaming or comparable streaming frameworks (nice to have).
- SAP S/4HANA, BW and Business Data Cloud extraction and data structures (nice to have).
- Document processing, embeddings and vector indexes for AI retrieval (nice to have).
- Strong English (international working environment).
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We started this company with a simple observation: most organizations don’t struggle because they lack technology — they struggle because solutions are too complex, disconnected from reality, or hard to sustain over time. Data and AI can create enormous value. But only when they are designed with clear intent, solid foundations, and a realistic understanding of how organizations actually operate. We’re a young, fast-growing company with plenty of opportunities to learn, evolve, and build something meaningful together.