Senior Data Engineer

# Think Data Be Smart #

About Us: DataSmart is a Portuguese company, positioning itself as a consulting company of excellence, with over 20 years of existence. We are specialized in Technologies and Information Systems services, for the Portuguese and International markets. We pride ourselves on fostering a culture of involvement, experience, and excellence.

Join our team as a Senior Data Engineer (Remote – Portugal based)!

What You’ll Do:

• Own and evolve the design of large-scale data platforms, with a strong focus on Customer 360 / CDP solutions built on Snowflake.
• Design, build, and maintain robust data pipelines (ETL/ELT), supporting incremental loads, reprocessing, and error handling.
• Lead technical decisions, review code and data models, and mentor other data engineers.
• Drive the migration of data platforms from on-premise BI/DWH to cloud-based architectures.
• Model customer-centric data (facts, dimensions, identities, events, sessions, and behaviour) to support analytics and activation use cases.
• Integrate data with MarTech and CDP platforms (e.g. Braze, Salesforce Marketing Cloud, Adobe Campaign).
• Ingest and manage data from multiple sources such as CRM, ecommerce platforms, web/app analytics, POS systems, and customer support tools.
• Optimize Snowflake performance and costs through query tuning, clustering, warehouse sizing, and workload management.
• Implement orchestration, monitoring, and alerting to ensure data quality, freshness, and reliability.
• Collaborate closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders, challenging requirements and proposing efficient, scalable solutions.
• Ensure best practices in Git-based development, CI/CD, and cloud cost awareness.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, with hands-on experience with Snowflake.
• Strong SQL skills and solid Python knowledge.
• Strong experience designing incremental ETL/ELT pipelines with restartability and data consistency guarantees.
• Solid understanding of data modelling, including dimensional models and customer data concepts.
• Experience in retail or ecommerce environments (online and in-store data is a plus).
• Experience migrating data platforms from on-premise to cloud environments.
• Experience with at least one major cloud provider (Azure, AWS, or GCP).
• Familiarity with orchestration tools, CI/CD pipelines for data workloads, git-based workflows, pull requests, and code reviews.
• Experience implementing data quality checks, monitoring, and alerting.
• Strong sense of ownership, excellent communication skills, and the ability to work effectively with both technical and business teams.
• Portuguese, Spanish and English fluency (B1/B2).
• Living in Portugal.

At DataSmart, you will have the opportunity to integrate into a solid company and participate in projects of high recognition, nationally and internationally, with an appealing technological environment and career progression.

Excellence in the way to the future!

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