Senior Data Platform Engineer: Databricks & Data Products

Chain IQ; Lisboa; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Global team environment

Job summary

Chain IQ is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design and evolve a modular Databricks-based platform, enabling trusted data access across ingestion, governance, and data products.

You will build reusable ingestion patterns for batch, API, and streaming sources, implement data governance, quality contracts, and privacy controls, and mentor engineers across a globally distributed team.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in data engineering with 2+ years on Databricks Lakehouse in production.
• Hands-on Spark and Delta Lake experience; Delta Live Tables a plus.
• Unity Catalog for access control, lineage, cataloguing.
• Experience implementing data anonymisation in regulated environments.
• Canonical/conformed data modelling (data vault, dimensional modelling).
• APIs (REST/GraphQL) exposure of data; schemas and versioning.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve Databricks-based data pipelines across Bronze-Silver-Gold.
• Build modular ingestion patterns for batch, API, and streaming sources.
• Implement data governance—access controls, lineage, cataloging, auditing.
• Define data quality standards, data contracts, monitoring, and alerting.
• Develop and own data products aligned to a canonical data model.
• Collaborate with domain teams to integrate source data into the model.
• Champion Data as a Product with self-service and versioning.
• Drive CI/CD, IaC, testing, observability, and cost optimization.
• Mentor engineers and coordinate with governance, security, architecture, stakeholders.

Skills

Databricks

Spark

Delta Lake

Python

SQL

Terraform

Unity Catalog

Data Governance

REST/GraphQL

Cloud Platforms

Tools

Delta Live Tables

Job description

Chain IQ is seeking a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design and evolve a modular Databricks-based platform, enabling trusted data access across ingestion, governance, and data products.

You will build reusable ingestion patterns for batch, API, and streaming sources, implement data governance, quality contracts, and privacy controls, and mentor engineers across a globally distributed team.