Data Quality Engineer Porto

Data Quality Engineer
Porto
Porto, Porto District, Portugal

We are looking for a Data Quality Engineer to join our Data Engineering team. In this role, you will work alongside Data Engineers as the champion of data quality and quality engineering practices, ensuring high standards from ingestion to presentation across our data ecosystem.

You’ll take a
- on role in the design, development, and scaling of automated data quality frameworks, contributing to improved data reliability, testing coverage, and observability across our pipelines and systems. You will work to shift quality left, embedding
- focused thinking early in the development lifecycle, and foster a culture of shared quality ownership across teams.

Your
-
- day will involve validating data transformations and pipelines, developing tests to catch anomalies, monitoring and refining data taxonomy structures, identifying issues early, and collaborating with stakeholders to proactively improve data systems and processes.

Expected travelling time (UK and USA):

0%-15%, varies according to project.

What You'll Do:

1. Serve as the voice of data quality within the Data Engineering team.
2. Design and implement automated testing and alerting frameworks to monitor data pipelines.
3. Drive quality from data ingestion through to data presentation layers.
4. Collaborate with data engineers and stakeholders to ensure quality is
   - in from the start.
5. Analyze complex datasets to identify inconsistencies, trends, and areas for improvement.
6. Enhance and maintain proprietary and standardized taxonomies.
7. Ensure performance and reliability across data systems and pipelines.
8. Promote and apply best practices for testing with data in mind across the broader engineering community.

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering or Data Quality Engineering roles in
  - paced environments.
• Deep understanding of data flows, patterns, and common error sources in
  - scale environments.
• Experience with
  - scale Enterprise data warehouse/Data Lake, data integration, data migration, and data quality verification.
• Experience with proprietary and
  - source big data technologies and platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, Vertica, Spark, Airflow) and data quality tools.
• Sound understanding of cloud technologies, especially AWS.
• Experience defining automated data quality monitoring, testing, and alerting frameworks.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, able to work effectively with developers, analysts, and leadership.
• Proactive mindset with
  - solving skills and curiosity for
  - cause analysis.

The Things We Really Care About:

• Flexible working hours
• Annual trips, sports, and sharing groups for team bonding
• Training & conferences, with personalized training plans
• Choice of laptop & peripherals to suit your needs

Most of all, you get to work with a great team in a
- free environment that values
- taking,
- making, collaboration, communication, commitment, feedback, and empathy.

At Mindera, we build products we are proud of, with people we love. Our core focus is on Software Engineering Applications, including Web and Mobile.

We partner with clients worldwide to deliver
- performance, scalable software systems that create real impact.

Our culture is lean,
- managed, and encourages
- taking,
- making, collaboration, and open communication. We love to learn and grow within an Agile, Lean environment.

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Our offices are located in Porto, Aveiro, Coimbra (Portugal);

Leicester (UK);

San Diego, San Francisco (USA);

Chennai, Bengaluru (India);

Cluj-Napoca (Romania);

Blumenau (Brazil).