Data Engineer

Lisbon, Portugal

Senior (4-6 Years)

Hybrid

English Required Not Accepting Candidates Living Abroad

The role sits within a central initiative driving AI adoption across the group, combining domain-focused AI teams, a central engineering pool, and a platform enabling business units to build and automate their own AI-driven processes. The focus is on building the data foundation that supports these AI and agentic workflow use cases.

What you will do

Design, build, and operate enterprise-grade ETL and ELT pipelines for AI, analytics, reporting, and agentic workflow use cases.
Create clean, documented, and reusable data products from operational, customer, logistics, and sales data sources.
Implement data quality checks, monitoring, lineage, metadata, and reliability patterns to make datasets trustworthy and production-ready.
Support integrations between cloud-based AI services, data platforms, APIs, and file-based sources.
Translate business and AI use case requirements into data models, pipelines, and serving layers.
Collaborate with local IT teams and data owners to onboard new data sources while respecting data protection, access control, and governance requirements.

Location and work model

Hybrid (2 days/week in the office, Lisboa)

Python
SQL
Data modelling
ETL/ELT development and production data pipelines
Cloud-native data engineering, ideally on Azure
Snowflake or comparable cloud data platforms
Understanding of data quality, orchestration, observability, access management, and governance in enterprise environments
Ability to collaborate with cross-functional and international teams
English B2

Nice to have

AWS exposure
Experience with Iceberg, AWS Glue, Spark, or Databricks
Experience with logistics or operational data (routes, depots, sales, customer feedback)
Exposure to AI feature stores, vector databases, retrieval pipelines, or data preparation for GenAI applications
Familiarity with GenAI software engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Cursor, or OpenCode

We connect IT professionals with projects that match their skills, professional experience, and goals, then we offer a career progression program, delivered by in-house specialists - our People Experience Partners - to guide them through our journey with us.

What we offer:

A project that matches your skills and ambitions, as well as your preferences for working policies and culture.
A competitive salary with awesome benefits and opportunities to leverage your knowledge and network to earn additional income.
An empowering and respectful work culture enriched with social and learning events.
A People Experience Partner specially assigned to you - your go-to career guide, responsible for supporting your growth, facilitating training, and ensuring your work-life balance at KWAN.

At KWAN, they make sure that I feel comfortable with the client I’m working for and that what I’m doing aligns with my career aspirations.

Luis Caldeira, DevOps @ KWAN

At KWAN, I’m given the space to be myself and do what I love. I have control over the projects I work on, as well as the direction of my career.

Pedro Fonseca, Front End Developer @ KWAN

I see my People Experience Partner as someone who is always available to provide me with motivation and constant feedback, which helps me be sure that I am in the right place.

Josimar dos Reis, Software Developer @ KWAN

I know that I’ve contributed to the growth of a company that truly values a “people first culture”, because my ideas, experiences, and individuality were always appreciated.

João Nascimento, Software Developer (KWAN Alumni)

My two years at KWAN were an incredible experience! From the start, I was welcomed into a warm and collaborative environment where I felt truly supported.

Laís Ortiz, Software Developer @ (KWAN Alumni)

Grab this opportunity, apply now!