Tech Lead, Real-Time Data Eng | AWS, Flink, Kafka

InnoTech

Porto

On-site

EUR 70,000 - 100,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Mental health support

25 days vacation

Birthday day off

Pet bereavement day

Team events

Annual company parties

InnoSports initiatives

Job summary

InnoTech in Porto is seeking a Tech Lead – Data Engineering to drive the design, development and operation of real-time data products across ingestion, processing and production APIs. You will build scalable, event-driven architectures using Apache Flink, Apache Kafka and AWS services, ensuring reliability, security and observability of data products.

The role requires 10+ years in data engineering, strong hands-on experience with Flink/Kafka and AWS, and excellent English.

Qualifications

10+ years of data engineering experience with real-time systems.
Hands-on with Apache Flink and Apache Kafka.
Extensive AWS experience (MSK, Kinesis, S3, Lambda, API Gateway).
Experience building REST APIs, microservices, CI/CD, and observability.
Knowledge of data governance, security (OAuth2/OIDC), and SLA.
Excellent English; CPLP nationality or EU work permit required.

Responsibilities

Lead design, development and operation of real-time data products across ingestion, processing and production APIs.
Build and evolve scalable, event-driven data architectures using modern AWS services.
Ensure reliability, data quality, security, observability and performance of data products.
Drive architectural decisions, code reviews and engineering best practices across the team.
Collaborate with engineers and stakeholders to translate requirements into robust solutions.