Data Engineer Innovation Point Braga October 28, 2025 Braga

Overview

Innovation Point's mission is to identify and assess innovative ideas and opportunities, develop and prototype them, and finally make them available by introducing them to the markets.

dstgroup is one of Portugal's biggest construction companies, operating at the crossroads of construction, engineering, and digital transformation. With a workforce of over 3, 000 employees generating massive daily data streams, our mission is to build robust data foundations that empower advanced AI and NLP teams.

We are seeking a Data Engineer to design and maintain scalable,
- quality data pipelines that make data accessible, structured, and ready for model training and evaluation. Your work will directly enable our AI/NLP team to focus on innovation rather than data preparation.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain ETL/CRISP-DM pipelines to process diverse data streams into structured, reliable datasets.
• Build and optimize SQL-based solutions, with a focus on the Postgre
  SQL ecosystem, including:
  • pgvector for embedding storage and retrieval
  • Post
    GIS for geospatial analysis
• Implement and manage REST APIs to expose data products to downstream consumers.
• Ensure data quality, governance, and reproducibility, with a special focus on textual/NLP data collections.
• Develop and maintain containerized solutions with Docker, ensuring reproducibility and scalability.
• Use Git and Git
  Lab CI/CD pipelines to automate testing, integration, and deployment of data workflows.
• Collaborate with AI/NLP teams to understand their data requirements and deliver datasets optimized for model training, evaluation, and deployment.
• Integrate
  - source tools with Azure cloud services for storage, orchestration, and monitoring.

What we are looking for

• 2+ years of professional experience as a Data Engineer or in a similar role.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and relational databases (especially Postgre
  SQL).
• Hands-on experience with pgvector, Post
  GIS, or Timescale
  DB.
• Strong Python programming skills, preferably with Py
  Spark.
• Proficiency in Docker for development and production environments.
• Experience with Git and Git
  Lab CI/CD.
• Familiarity with Airflow and Azure cloud services.
• Previous experience collaborating with AI/ML teams, especially in preparing NLP datasets.

Nice to Have (not mandatory):

• Ph. D. in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, or a related field.
• Experience both in Academia and Industry
• Have a strong track record of scientific research (in any field), and have done work on information retrieval, knowledge representation and reasoning, structured knowledge extraction, or
  - scale data analytics.
• Willingness to mentor younger members and
  - supervise master’s theses in collaboration with the universities of Minho and Porto.

What we offer

• The chance to shape the data backbone for one of Portugal’s biggest construction companies.
• Work directly at the interface of data engineering, AI, and NLP, with immediate business impact.
• Hybrid work model with flexibility.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• A collaborative,
  - looking environment focused on innovation and
  - driven
  - making.