Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake/dbt/AWS) - Portugal Full Remote

About the role

Senior Data Engineer (Snowflake/dbt/AWS) - Portugal Full Remote

ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY

We’re hiring two Senior Data Engineers to join an international, people-first software engineering company known for high-performance systems used by millions of people worldwide. This is a hands-on role for someone who likes to build, own production systems end to end, and share what they know. You’ll work directly with senior leadership and client teams, in a culture built on empathy, self-organization and the courage to take risks. AI-assisted engineering is encouraged here, as long as it comes with solid engineering judgment.

PROJECT & CONTEXT

You’ll join a data project for a leading retail client, building and running the pipelines and platforms that move data from source systems to the warehouse, on production systems where it really matters. Your scope includes:

* Building and running batch and streaming ingestion pipelines from databases, event streams and third-party APIs * Owning storage architecture across lake, lakehouse and warehouse, with a focus on partitioning, cost and query performance * Keeping pipelines observable and restartable through orchestration, automated testing, alerting and clean recovery * Applying software engineering practices to data: infrastructure as code, CI/CD, code reviews and version control * Defining data contracts with producing teams to control schema drift, and managing access, retention and lineage * Writing documentation that outlasts the engagement

Fully remote from Portugal, with occasional national or international travel (0–15%) depending on project needs.

WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR (Required)

* 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer, with pipelines built and run in production * Advanced, production-grade SQL and Python 3 * Extensive experience with ETL/ELT processes and CI/CD for data workloads * Hands-on experience with dbt * Experience with orchestration tools such as Apache Airflow, Azure Data Factory or Dagster * Extensive experience with Snowflake and Terraform * Strong understanding of data modelling methodologies: Kimball, Inmon and Data Vault * Production experience with AWS * Use of AI tooling in daily work, with the review discipline to check what it generates before it ships * Fluent English (spoken and written), comfortable working directly with client teams

NICE TO HAVE (Preferred)

* Experience with a second cloud provider (GCP or Azure) * Spark/PySpark at scale and Databricks * Streaming and pub/sub brokers: Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub or MQTT * Open table and file formats: Parquet, Apache Iceberg, Delta Lake * Docker, Kubernetes and GitHub Actions * Data quality frameworks in production: Great Expectations, Soda or Monte Carlo * AI data infrastructure: embedding pipelines, vector stores, feature stores * NoSQL stores (e.g. MongoDB) and marketing data sources (Google Ads, Meta, CRM APIs) * A cost engineering mindset: making pipelines cheaper and quantifying the savings * Experience in regulated environments (GDPR, access control, auditable lineage)

Compensation: €2,700 – €3200/month net, depending on experience and seniority level.

Why HumanIT people stay (4.4 Glassdoor, 89% recommend)

* 15th month salary * Health insurance covering your family * Birthday off * Mobility program for digital nomads * Real work-life balance

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