Senior Data Engineer Lisboa

Senior Data Engineer
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Senior Data Engineer

About Us

BOI is pioneering the field of AI strategy and applied AI, partnering with
- scale, ambitious businesses around the world to ideate, design, and build AI products that transform the way they work. We don’t just help organizations imagine what’s possible - we build the software that turns that vision into reality.

We work across different sectors and functions and have built a
- class team that unites commercial expertise, smart strategy, and technology. If you’re passionate about building enterprise AI products from 0->1 and leading projects at the forefront of AI innovation, we’d love to meet you!

About the Role

We are hiring a Lead Data Engineer to design, build, and manage scalable data pipelines that support our AI-powered tools and applications, including agentic and predictive AI. You will integrate, harmonize, and transform data from disparate sources to ensure it is ready for use in foundational model integrations. This is a
- on role where you will be responsible for building and implementing systems from the ground up. You would write
- level code while defining processes and best practices for future team growth.

You will

• Work together with a collaborative international team of engineers, designers and solution leads to understand customer business needs and translate them into
  -
  - end solutions.
• Develop and manage ETL pipelines to extract, transform, and load data from various internal and external sources into harmonized datasets.
• Design, optimize, and maintain cloud databases and data storage systems (Postgres
  SQL, Mongo
  DB, Object storage).
• Ensure data integrity, quality, and security across all pipelines and workflows, and enforce data access and governance systems.
• Collaborate with AI Engineers to prepare data for use in model workflows (e. g. vector embeddings).

You have

• 5+ years of experience building secure and scalable cloud data infrastructure, and a degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Experience in Python, SQL, and data transformation libraries like pandas or Py
  Spark.
• Hands-on experience with data pipeline orchestration tools like Apache Airflow or Prefect.
• Solid understanding of database design and optimization for relational and
  - relational databases.
• Experience with deployment on one of the major cloud providers (preferably Azure).
• Advanced English skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to communicate effectively in an international team.

You are

• Experience working in a consulting or agency environment on
  - based work.
• Passionate about working with data and building reliable scalable systems.
• Familiar with Dev
  Ops practices in CI/CD for
  -
  - code (e. g. terraform, helm, argo), container orchestration (e. g. docker, k8s), and deployment automation.
• Passionate about continuously improving code quality by performing code reviews, and following best practices for testing and debugging.
• Able to take charge of a project from conception till
  - level customer deployment.
• Willing to work with the team to develop knowledge around new technology as well as software development best practices.

Job evolution

• Within your first month, you will integrate with the team, help set up best development practices and initial data pipelines.

• Within your third month, you will be actively involved in a client project, scoping the project and implementing user stories.
• Within your six months, you will be involved in multiple client projects, having already brought one from inception to a scalable client deployment. You will be actively working with the team to develop internal software primitives and IP.

IMPORTANT: Please only apply if you meet all the listed requirements, including any local legal and compliance requirements. This position is open only to candidates based in Portugal, preferably in the Lisbon area.

Recruitment agencies: BOI operates with a defined preferred supplier list (PSL) and only engages selected external partners for specific roles. We do not accept unsolicited CV submissions. Any profiles submitted outside of an agreed partnership and process will be treated as direct applications, and no placement fees will be paid.