Data Engineer Porto

VIRTHIO is a technology consulting company that provides services and solutions to support both national and international clients across various sectors, such as Banking, Services, Energy, among others.

We drive our clients’ businesses forward through a dedicated team and ensure the allocation of highly qualified and specialized IT talent for projects in a wide range of areas, tailored to the specific needs and reality of each organization. We have IT experts working in areas as diverse as IT Consulting, Nearshore, Turnkey Projects, Blockchain, and Machine Learning.

What you’ll be doing

• Advising on data strategy, architecture, and implementation approaches.
• Designing and developing data pipelines on public cloud platforms (primarily AWS, also Azure/GCP when relevant).
• Implementing and optimizing Lakehouse architectures (primarily Iceberg; Hudi, Delta – are a plus).
• Building, automating, and maintaining ETL processes, data workflows, and orchestration (Airflow, Step Functions, AWS Workflow).
• Ensuring high standards of reliability, automation, maintainability, and security in all delivered solutions.
• Supporting incident resolution, root cause analysis, and preventive measures when required.
• Sharing knowledge and best practices with internal teams to enhance professional capabilities.

What you will need to succeed

• 3–5 years building data pipelines on public cloud services (preferably AWS, also Azure/GCP).
• 1+ years in data solution architecture, design, development, and support.
• Database architecture, ETL, BI, Big Data, ML, Advanced Analytics.
• Spark ecosystems (Hadoop is a plus).
• Pipeline orchestration (Airflow, Step Functions, AWS Workflow).
• Lakehouse architectures (Iceberg) and optimizations (Compaction, Z-Order, etc. ).
• Software development and transformation (Python, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages, Docker, CI/CD, automation).
• AWS services: Lambda, Glue, Crawlers, Step Functions, AWS Workflow, Dynamo
  DB, AWS Batch.
• Dev
  Ops and Agile principles, infrastructure as code (Cloud
  Formation and Terraform), artifact/vulnerability management.
• Awareness of cloud foundation services (networking, security, storage, IAM).
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to collaborate across multicultural teams.
• Fluent in English (written and spoken).
• Preferred: experience with
  - based applications (Docker) and Linux-based infrastructure.

What the company will offer you

• A company with an open mindset, where each team member contributes to organizational growth – all ideas are welcome, as is independent thinking;
• Opportunity to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment;
• Career progression and continuous learning opportunities;
• Flexible working hours and hybrid work model;
• Participation in innovative projects.

Next Steps

If you are interested in this opportunity, we would appreciate it if you could share your updated CV with us. Alternatively, if
- 're looking for new professional challenges, feel free to get in touch — we’ll be happy to talk about other career options with you.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Information Technology
• Industries IT Services and IT Consulting