Job Description

Senior Data Engineering Consultant (Lisbon, Portugal)

💸Salary €45,000 – €65,000

📍Location You’ll have flexibility around when you work from the office, but you will be expected to be based in Lisbon, Portugal. Occasional visits to see customers and the team.     

🧠Interview process: Two rounds. 1:  Get to know you chat with the People Recruitment Manager ;  2:  Technical competency with the Hiring Lead and a Team Member.  

🤝Our Values:  Advancing, Come as you are, Zero burnout, Greta goal, We all level up together and Transparency   

Learn more about us: Check out our YouTube,  read our Blogs Understand our values

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Who Are We?

Advancing Analytics are a market leader in delivering bleeding edge analytical solutions for customers all over the world.  To thrive in today's market, businesses need to implement AI built on a solid, reliable Data Platform, and we are looking for you to help us build it!  

Who are we looking for?

Dedicated individuals who blend technical passion with the honesty and empathy needed for client consulting. People who love data and strongly believe in sharing knowledge, skills and wisdom both internally and with the wider data community. Someone who thrives in an agile environment, balancing their technical prowess with the pragmatic needs of the project. For the Senior Consultant role, we expect a good understanding of our core tech stack and the ability to see the end-to-end solution whilst leading a project.

Required Tools and Technologies:

• Microsoft Azure and cloud computing concepts

• Apache Spark – Databricks, Microsoft Fabric or another Spark engine

• Python – we build most of our solutions in Python

• SQL – writing complex high-performance queries, understanding how queries execute on different compute technologies

• Azure Data Factory or other cloud orchestration tools

• Azure Data Lake storage and Delta Lake

• Unity Catalog, Purview or other Data Governance tools

• IAC tool such as Terraform, Azure DevOps

Other technology we like, but isn’t essential:

• Visualisation Tools – Power BI, Tableau

• Streaming Data – Azure Stream Analytics, Event Hubs, IoT Hubs

• Building parallel systems – Distributed compute engines

• Azure Functions – Python, C#

Skills and Approaches:

• Requirements gathering and client consulting

• Agile project management

• Understanding of OO Development Practices

• ETL Approaches – Data Quality, Resilience, Observability

• Understanding of CI/CD Methodologies and SDLC

• Fluency in English (spoken and written).

What will it be like to work for Advancing Analytics?

We are a small company and encourage everyone to have a voice within our collaborative and inclusive team from day one.  

As a consultancy with strong partnerships across Microsoft, Databricks, AWS, Sigma, Tabular Editor and dbt Labs, you’ll get hands-on access to some of the most exciting technology and learning opportunities in the industry. We know this market moves quickly, so we invest in our people for the long term, giving you the space to build real expertise, keep developing, and stay ahead of what’s next.

We’re also genuinely active in the wider data and AI community. That means speaking at events, sponsoring major industry moments like Big Data London, and showing up at some of the biggest stages in the space, including Databricks Data+AI Summit, Data+AI World Tour, and the Global AI AgentCon London.     

Aside from offering a competitive salary, we have a great set of benefits and perks including, but not limited to:

• Industry matching Maternity & Paternity policy 🐣

• Meal Allowance (Subsídio de Alimentação) via card or payroll, in line with Portuguese practice.

• Accident insurance, as standard under Portuguese employment laws.

• Private Medical & Dental Care

• 25 Days Annual Leave, Birthday Leave & Charity Leave 🌴

• Frequent away days with the team 🚃

• Annual Bonus Scheme

• Flexible Working Hours

Our company values define us:

🚀 Advancing – the projects that get us all out of bed are challenging and push the limits of what is currently possible. We work on the bleeding edge and challenge the analytical industry daily.

🌈 Come as you are – we are an inclusive company. When you work with us, rest assured you're working in a safe environment.

❌ Zero burnout – too often technology teams are worked too hard or stretched too thin. We have seen it happen, and we never want to be a company that pushes our staff to breaking point.

🌱 Greta Goal – we only have one planet, let’s look after it.

📚 We all level up together – we have each seen the benefit that being part of a developer community can have, it is transformational. We invest in our communities, you will find us organising meetups, conferences, and events. When we are not organising, we are helping, speaking, mentoring, or sponsoring.

💡Transparency – We are big believers that there are no secrets in Advancing Analytics, and we try to live this day to day.

You can read about our values in more detail here - https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/values

Equal opportunities for everyone

At Advancing Analytics both diversity and inclusion are a priority. We are all committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer; all applicants will be considered without regard to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity or disability status.

This role profile is intended to provide an overview of the responsibilities and qualifications required for the Senior Data Engineering Consultant role. It is not an exhaustive list and may be subject to change to meet the needs of the organisation.