Lead IT Data Engineer

Your role includes:

• Being a trusted advisor, guiding our IT towards successful technical solutions to our data challenges. 
• Communicating the what, why and how of proposed solutions to the technical and non-technical stakeholders. 
• Understanding the Zühlke data estate whilst designing, developing and testing scalable data solutions, including data pipelines, quality management. 
• Understanding the needs of multiple types of producers and consumers for our data services, ensuring your design meets the requirements. 
• Collaborating with different stakeholders such as IT Architect, IT Engineers, and internal clients with ease. 
• Delivering projects in an Agile way, building iteratively to produce value from data early and frequently. 

We would love to hear from you if you have ANY of the following 

• Completed studies in informatics or a comparable education. 
• You have several years of experience in designing, building, and maintaining data products that meet the needs of data consumers. 
• An understanding of common approaches to data analysis and data visualisation so you can produce the right solutions for data consumers. 
• Experience with a variety of approaches to data architectures (e.g. Data Lake, Data Mesh, Data Warehouse, streaming, batch processing) 
• Hands-on experience with databases both relational and NoSQL. 
• Familiarity with cloud solutions and concepts for storing and processing large and/or heterogeneous data volumes. 
• Practical knowledge of handling varied types of structured and unstructured data (text, tabular, graph, time-series, image, etc.) would be a plus. 
• Knowledgeable about information security and data governance. 
• Data programming skills with experience in different programming languages like C# or Python. 
• Keeping yourself technically sharp, being open to learning new concepts and technologies. 

Behaviours:  

• You are open, proactive, responding to changes quickly and with agility while learning in the process  
• You maximize benefit as simply as possible but as complexly as needed  
• You’re able to persuade people through clear communication, negotiation skills, empathy and an ability to see things from others’ perspective  
• You establish long-term, partnership-oriented relationships and develop and maintain them  
• You think and act in the interests of the organization as a whole and utilize synergies  
• You take personal initiative in confronting obstacles and failures, have an optimistic overall attitude and take measures to ensure performance in the long term 

 Our benefits include:  

• Possibility to reduce working hours up to 32.5h/week. 
• Option for condensed working week - you can condense your working hours and spread it across 4 working days.
• Hybrid workplace - option to work both from home or office in Porto.
• Time and money allocated for your upskilling. 
• 25 days of Annual Leave. 
• Flexi-time - organize your own working hours according to your daily needs.  
• Trusted sick leave.
• Private Health Insurance. 
• Top-notch equipment & working with cutting-edge technologies.  
• Referral bonuses. 
• Various social Zühlke events. 

At Zühlke you will feel included. 

We welcome people from all backgrounds, regardless of their gender, personality, national origin, race, religion, colour, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital status or disability.  

We communicate openly with each other, assess ourselves honestly and enjoy working a team. We work in a diverse and multicultural environment with people from all over the world. 

Apply to learn more about this opportunity at Zühlke! 

Even if you feel you don't meet all the requirements yet, we are still happy to get to know you, learn more about your ambitions and ideas. We look forward to receiving your application.