Senior Data & Integration Engineer | Tech Lead (Azure)

Location: Hybrid in Lisbon, Portugal; candidates must be based in Portugal.

Company

hirify.global is building its team around data engineering and enterprise integration solutions.

What you will do

• Design and implement ETL/ELT processes, data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and enterprise data integrations.
• Work with structured and unstructured data, analyze data, and develop dashboards and reports to support decision-making.
• Design cloud-based integration architectures, REST APIs, system-to-system integrations, and event-driven solutions.
• Translate business needs into robust data and integration solutions and liaise with technical and business stakeholders.
• Provide technical direction, establish development standards, conduct code reviews, and mentor engineering teams.
• Collaborate with cross-functional, international, and distributed teams.

Requirements

• Degree in Computer Science or a similar field.
• 6+ years of professional experience in Data Engineering, Software Engineering, or a related technology field, including 3+ years in a Technical Lead or Lead Engineer role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure Databricks, including Jobs/Workflows, Notebooks, SQL Warehouses, Delta Lake, and Unity Catalog.
• Strong knowledge of ETL/ELT processes, data integration patterns, data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, and enterprise system integration.
• Strong programming skills in SQL, Python, and PySpark.
• Experience designing and implementing Azure-based integration architectures using Azure Service Bus, Azure Event Hubs, and Azure Functions.
• Strong hands-on experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code, including provisioning, reusable modules, configuration management, and deployment automation.
• Experience with REST APIs, authentication, authorization, error handling, retries, monitoring, Azure DevOps, Git, branching strategies, CI/CD pipelines, and automated deployments across Development, QA, and Production.
• Experience designing secure, scalable, resilient, and maintainable data and integration solutions; knowledge of Managed Identities, Service Principals, OAuth 2.0, certificates, secure secrets management, Azure Monitor, Application Insights, and Log Analytics.
• Ability to provide technical leadership, guide engineering teams, translate business and technical requirements, and manage technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with international and distributed teams; proactive, accountable, pragmatic, and able to drive technical topics independently.
• Fluent written and spoken English is mandatory.

Nice to have

• Microsoft Azure certifications, particularly Azure Developer or Azure Solutions Architect.
• Experience with Azure API Management, enterprise API governance, Azure Event Grid, and other messaging or event-driven services.
• Experience integrating Oracle, Salesforce, and other cloud-based enterprise platforms.
• Experience with hybrid integration architectures connecting on-premises systems with cloud platforms.
• Knowledge of Enterprise Integration Patterns, publish/subscribe, event sourcing, distributed systems, data governance, security, data quality, and enterprise data-platform practices.
• Experience with mTLS, certificate management, advanced authentication mechanisms, Docker, Kubernetes, large international organizations, or US-based projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement in Portugal.
• Collaborative work with international and distributed teams.
• Equal employment opportunity regardless of gender, identity, orientation, marital status, race, nationality, religion, age, disability, political beliefs, or other protected factors.

Hiring process

• Do not submit resumes or CVs directly to third-party agencies or companies without a signed agreement with hirify.global.
• Applying to the posting constitutes consent to hirify.global Group using the submitted data for as long as necessary, subject to its data-cleansing and updating practices.