Data engineer (middle) - portugal

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. This approach gives team members the flexibility to work remotely while also coming together in the office for collaboration and teamwork.

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
• Nice extras: 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

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