Senior Data Engineer — AI‑Driven Pipelines (Remote)

Mindera; Portugal; Remote; EUR 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Flexible working hours

Remote work in Portugal

Training budget and conferences

Laptop & peripherals

Annual team events

Job summary

Mindera is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and operate data pipelines moving data from sources to warehouses in production. You’ll leverage Python/SQL, batch and streaming frameworks, and AWS, with optional GCP/Azure familiarity.

Expect collaboration on AI-enabled data work and strong governance of data contracts. You’ll work in a flexible, self-organizing environment in Portugal, with options for remote work, hub locations, and ongoing training.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with Python and SQL in production environments.
• Experience building batch and streaming data pipelines from databases and streams.
• Production experience on AWS; GCP/Azure is a plus.
• Familiarity with data orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster, Azure Data Factory).
• Knowledge of CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code using Git, Terraform, and Docker.
• Experience with data contracts, schema drift, data access, and lineage.
• Experience with Snowflake and dbt for data transformation and modeling.
• Hands-on with distributed data processing/streaming (Spark, PySpark, Databricks, Kafka, Kinesis, Pub/Sub).
• GDPR awareness; NoSQL (MongoDB) is a plus.
• Fluent English for technical communication.

Responsibilities

• Build and run pipelines and platforms moving data from source systems to warehouses.
• Collaborate on AI-enabled data engineering initiatives and validate AI-generated code.
• Ensure reliability with monitoring, testing, and alerts; troubleshoot failures.
• Manage data contracts and upstream schema with appropriate governance.
• Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to best practices.

Skills

Python

SQL

Batch pipelines

Streaming pipelines

AWS

Data orchestration

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

AI tooling

Snowflake

dbt

Spark/PySpark

Kafka/Kinesis

MongoDB

English

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

Airflow

Dagster

Azure Data Factory

Git/GitHub Actions

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Mindera is seeking a Senior Data Engineer to build and operate data pipelines moving data from sources to warehouses in production. You’ll leverage Python/SQL, batch and streaming frameworks, and AWS, with optional GCP/Azure familiarity.

Expect collaboration on AI-enabled data work and strong governance of data contracts. You’ll work in a flexible, self-organizing environment in Portugal, with options for remote work, hub locations, and ongoing training.