Data Engineer

About the Position

Data Engineer

Ermesinde, Porto District, Portugal

Inetum is a European leader in digital services. Inetum’s team of 28,000 consultants and specialists strive every day to make a digital impact for businesses, public sector entities and society. Inetum’s solutions aim at contributing to its clients’ performance and innovation as well as the common good.

We are looking for a Mid-Level Data Engineer to design, optimize, and maintain complex data pipelines, ensuring the scalability, reliability, and performance of data solutions. In this role, you will also collaborate with Data Science teams to integrate and operationalize machine learning models in production environments.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable data pipelines.
• Optimize data processing workflows for large-scale datasets.
• Build and manage data ingestion solutions from multiple sources.
• Ensure data quality, reliability, and performance across platforms.
• Collaborate with Data Science and Engineering teams to deploy and operationalize ML solutions.
• Contribute to software engineering best practices and continuous improvement initiatives.

Requirements

• Proven experience of 3+ years in Data Engineering.
• Advanced proficiency in Python and SQL.
• Demonstrated ability to design robust, maintainable, and highly scalable solutions for large-scale data processing and performance optimization.
• Hands-on experience with in-memory data processing libraries such as Polars (or equivalent).
• Solid experience with distributed data processing frameworks, particularly PySpark.
• Experience developing data ingestion pipelines leveraging REST APIs.
• Strong knowledge of software development best practices.
• Experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and software testing methodologies.
• Experience deploying, monitoring, and maintaining Machine Learning pipelines in production environments.

Nice to Have

• Experience with modern data platforms such as Databricks.
• Experience orchestrating workflows using tools such as Apache Airflow.
• Knowledge of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP).

We Offer

• Opportunity to work with a leading European digital services company.
• Collaborative and innovative work environment.
• Potential for professional growth and development.

About the Company

Inetum is a European leader in digital services. Inetum’s team of 28,000 consultants and specialists strive every day to make a digital impact for businesses, public sector entities and society. Inetum’s solutions aim at contributing to its clients’ performance and innovation as well as the common good.