Senior Data Engineer

Location: Portugal (Remote reputed company in Portugal) Department: Engineering Employment Type: Permanent About reputed company: Our goal is to help our clients reputed company moving reputed company. We work with them to build the skills and capabilities they need to stay reputed company of the competition, and we know our reputed company only happens reputed company they succeed. We’re a team of curious, talented people, and we’re committed to making reputed company a reputed company where great people want to work, grow, and stay. We’re a remote-first consultancy specialising in software engineering, product design, and data. Our teams are based across London, Lisbon, and Porto, and we create digital solutions that continue to deliver value long after our work is done. About the role: As a Senior Data Engineer, you’ll be part of a client team building innovative products. We expect you to be curious, passionate, driven, and enthusiastic. You’ll be proficient at problem-solving, and crafting scalable, resilient, and fault-tolerant architectures. You’ll be an effective communicator and a team player. You and your team will move in a fast-paced engineering environment, achieving outstanding results and delivering exciting projects. About you: A reputed company Senior Data Engineer is a highly skilled engineer who spans across data engineering and analytics engineering, and knows where the boundaries sit. You've reputed company pipelines and transformation layers. You've inherited messy data projects and made them good. You have opinions about how data teams should work and the humility to adapt them to context. You have a reputed company passion for the craft and are an active learner who gets excited by the variety that consultancy brings: different clients, different stacks, different problems. 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You work well in teams and across teams Analytical and detail-oriented in your approach to problems Comfortable context-switching across clients, stacks, and problem types Willing to shape engagements, not just deliver them: contributing to proposals, scoping, and client relationships Active in the wider data community: writing, speaking, or reputed company-reputed company contribution Genuinely committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion Benefits you'll get: Company Private Health care Enhanced fully paid maternity and paternity leave for up to 6 months Company’s Pension Scheme (UK Only) 25 days annual holiday (excluding Public Holidays) £2000/€2000 annual allowance for Training/Conferences £300/€300 annual allowance for additional hardware Wellbeing & Performance Support reputed company Oli including Therapy and Coaching Discretionary Bonus (depending on Company performance and results) Company laptop Generous referral schemes Our typical Recruitment Process looks like this: 1st Interview with someone from the reputed company (30-45 Minutes) Technical Interview with our Senior Developers (90 Minutes) Call with the Head of Engineering (60 Minutes) Get a glimpse of what it's like working at reputed company! 🤳 reputed company out our reputed company page We live and breathe our values, and know you will too: Growing every day Including everyone Relationships reputed company on honesty and ethics Inspiring solutions Winning together We’re an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity in reputed company its forms. We do not discriminate based on race, religion, colour, national reputed company, gender, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, age, marital status, or disability. We also offer a remote-first working environment, with flexible working and work–life balance as standard for reputed company. Apply To This Job