Senior Data Engineer Databricks

Há 2 dias

Porto, Porto, Portugal Acuity Analytics Tempo integral

Ascent has recently joined Acuity Analytics, bringing together deep industry expertise, technology and data capabilities to help organisations solve complex challenges and drive meaningful change.

About the Role We're looking for a

Senior Data Engineer

who wants to do more than build pipelines.

You'll help turn complex data into

commercial, customer-facing products , combining strong Data Engineering skills with emerging

AI and LLM technologies .

Working across

Databricks, Azure, Python and PySpark , you'll build scalable data solutions, explore new AI capabilities and work directly with product and commercial teams to bring ideas into production.

This is a hands‐on role with plenty of ownership: approximately

60% engineering, 20% mentoring and 20% exploration and innovation .

What You'll Be Doing

Build scalable

data products

and customer-facing data solutions.

Develop production‐ready pipelines using

Databricks, Python, PySpark and SQL .

Transform raw data into structured, enriched and commercially valuable datasets.

Build and integrate

APIs

to expose data and power products.

Apply

LLMs, RAG and Generative AI

to classification, enrichment, search and insight generation.

Work with structured and unstructured data, embeddings and semantic search.

Help evolve our

Databricks and Azure data platform .

Improve data quality, testing, observability and CI/CD.

Partner with product and commercial teams to turn business opportunities into technical solutions.

Mentor engineers and help shape our growing Data & AI capability.

What We're Looking For

Hands‐on experience with

Databricks .

Advanced

Python, PySpark and SQL .

Strong experience building scalable

data pipelines and data models .

Experience with

Azure

or another major cloud platform.

Experience building

APIs

and exposing data to applications or customers.

Experience with

data products or customer-facing data solutions .

Exposure to

Generative AI / LLMs

and real‐world AI use cases.

Familiarity with

RAG, embeddings, vector databases or semantic search .

Strong communication skills and confidence working with technical, product and commercial stakeholders.

A product mindset – you think about

how data creates value , not just how it moves from A to B.

Nice to Have

Airbyte

Terraform

A/B testing or experimentation

AI governance

Life sciences or pharmaceutical experience

Why Join Us? You'll have the opportunity to

build products, not just infrastructure , shape how AI is used within real‐world data solutions and have genuine influence over technical and product direction.

You'll work with a modern Data & AI stack, have space to explore new technologies and help build solutions that deliver measurable customer impact.

Learn more about life at Acuity Analytics on our Working Here page.