Senior Data Engineer (Databricks Focus)

Country: Portugal

Brand: Capgemini

Reference: 519284-en_US

Contract type: Permanent

Experience level: Experienced Professionals

Professional community: Data & AI

Business unit: ABL Southern Central Europe

Senior Data Engineer

Choosing Capgemini means choosing a company where you will be empowered to shape your career in the way you’d like, where you’ll be supported and inspired by a collaborative community of colleagues around the world, and where you’ll be able to reimagine what’s possible. Join us and help the world’s leading organizations unlock the value of technology and build a more sustainable, more inclusive world.

YOUR ROLE

We are looking for a Data Engineer with a Databricks focus to join Capgemini Portugal’s Data & AI consulting team. You will design and implement scalable data pipelines and lakehouse solutions, solve delivery challenges in client projects, and support commercial initiatives with strong technical solutioning.

In this role you will be responsible for:

• Design, build and maintain robust batch and streaming pipelines using Databricks (Spark/PySpark, Databricks Workflows/Jobs).
• Implement lakehouse best practices with Delta Lake (reliability, schema evolution, optimization) and data modeling for analytics readiness.
• Apply governance and security patterns using Unity Catalog (access control, lineage/discovery), in coordination with client security requirements.
• Implement CI/CD practices for notebooks/jobs and promote testing, observability and operational reliability.
• Optimize performance and cost (cluster configuration, workload tuning) and troubleshoot production issues.
• Support pre-sales: contribute to architecture solutioning, estimations, and technical workshops in a consulting environment.

YOUR PROFILE

• Minimum of 4+ years experience as a Data Engineer (Databricks experience strongly preferred).
• Strong skills in SQL and Python/PySpark; understanding of distributed processing concepts.
• Experience with Databricks core components (jobs/workflows, Delta patterns; governance concepts).
• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps tooling applied to data engineering.
• Strong communication and teamwork; proactive problem solving and ownership mindset.
• Fluency in Portuguese and English.

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE ABOUT WORKING HERE

• At Capgemini Portugal we have a flexible and dynamic work environment. Flexibility enables a better work-life balance and gives more flexibility to the employee to manage the working hours, as well if he works at the office or remotely, according with the company’s hybrid work policy; 
•  We have local programs that promote people growth, reskill and new skills development (Career Acceleration Programs); 
• We promote an empowering environment with autonomy and peers' relationships among the top scores of our Monthly Employees' feedback; Next to this, we also offer an attractive compensation package and benefits such as Health and Life insurance, as well as Referral program with bonuses for talent recommendations and other fringe benefits according with our partnerships in force.  
• Capgemini Portugal is an equal opportunity employer. We promote equality and dignity in all aspects of recruitment and employment, as well as employment offers and promotions made according with competence and ability or performance, respectively.

ABOUT CAPGEMINI

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fuelled by its market leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2023 global revenues of €22.5 billion.  

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