Data engineer (middle)

Data Engineer (Middle)

Department: IT Business Systems & Security

Employment Type: Full Time

Location: Portugal

Description

While primarily remote, this role requires occasional visits to the office in Coimbra. We plan to open offices in Aveiro and Porto in the future.

Key Responsibilities

• Build and fix pipelines — ingestion, transformation, consumption, all of it
• Write dbt models that actually have tests and docs (yes, we check)
• Chase down a data issue from the report all the way back to the source
• Jump on an incident — MSSQL job died, Snowflake task hung, S3 file vanished — and fix it
• Run a backfill, validate the results, confirm the fix actually worked
• Help move data from MSSQL into Snowflake without losing anything along the way
• Keep an eye on monitoring so users don’t find problems before you do
• Leave things documented well enough that future-you will say thank you

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• You own your work — no hand-holding, no reminders, you close the loop
• A degree in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, or something similar
• 3–5 years doing data engineering, data analysis, or something close
• SQL that actually impresses people — joins, window functions, CTEs, and you know why that query is slow
• You can read someone else’s stored procedure and figure out what went wrong
• You have shipped something with a real database in production: MSSQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, or similar
• Layers make sense to you: raw → staging → consumption, and you know why shortcuts hurt
• Incremental loads are not scary: watermarks, MERGE vs INSERT, you know the trade-offs
• Git is just how you work: branches, PRs, code review — no big deal
• You keep your tickets updated without being asked
• Snowflake: stages, file formats, Snowpipe, performance tricks
• dbt: models, tests, incremental — or you are genuinely excited to learn it
• MSSQL / SQL Server: stored procedures, SSIS, optimization
• S3 / flat files: CSV, JSON, Parquet
• Python for scripts and automation
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions, dbt Cloud, or whatever gets the job done
• You already use Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT — to code faster, debug smarter, write better docs

What you get

• Real problems, modern stack, no pointless busywork
• Full ownership from day one — you own what you ship — and you build it so anyone on the team can pick it up tomorrow
• A genuinely friendly team spread across different countries, continents, and time zones
• Room to grow in any direction you want to take it
• A place where AI tools are part of the culture, not a talking point

About Intermedia Intelligent Communications

To explore other opportunities check out our careers page: https://www.intermedia.com/about-us/careers