We are growing. And we are looking for talented people.
At Decskill, we believe that technological excellence is driven by human talent.
We are an IT consulting company with more than 10 years of consolidated experience in the market, focused on building long-term relationships with both our clients and our people. Today, we are a community of over 800 professionals, working from Lisbon, Porto, and Madrid, contributing to impactful technology initiatives.
As part of the Astek Group, we combine a strong local culture with a global presence, being active in around 23 countries across 4 continents. This allows us to offer an international context, diverse challenges, and long-term career opportunities, while staying close to our teams.
We are looking for a Data Architect!
Responsibilities:
- Design and evolve complex data architectures, ensuring scalability, security, performance and maintainability.
- Define and implement Lakehouse and Medallion architectures for modern data platforms.
- Design data solutions based on Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, Data Products and Data Mesh principles.
- Define architectures for event-driven systems, APIs and integration.
- Design and support streaming pipelines, Change Data Capture (CDC) and event-based architectures.
- Define and integrate REST APIs, Async APIs and Event APIs.
- Design and implement cloud-based data solutions using Microsoft Azure.
- Work with Azure Event Hub, Azure Functions, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Azure Storage and Key Vault.
- Support infrastructure and data platform automation using Terraform.
- Participate in architecture reviews and ensure compliance with architectural standards and best practices.
- Promote observability and an SRE mindset across data platforms and applications.
- Contribute to cloud cost management and optimisation.
- Ensure appropriate security and Data Governance practices.
- Manage and prioritise the Technical Debt Backlog.
- Maintain and promote high-quality technical documentation for applications and data platforms.
- Analyse and support infrastructure change requests.
- Work closely with global teams and stakeholders to translate business and technical requirements into robust architectural solutions.
- Contribute to continuous improvement and ensure a high standard of delivery quality.
Requirements:
- Up to 10 years of experience in the relevant platform, language, technology or framework.
- Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science or a similar field.
- Hands-on experience with the technologies and platforms relevant to the role.
- Strong experience designing complex technical solutions.
- Strong knowledge of Data Architecture, Events, APIs and Integration.
- Experience with Lakehouse Architecture, Medallion Architecture, Delta Lake and Unity Catalog.
- Experience with Data Products and preferably Data Mesh.
- Experience with Azure Event Hub, Azure Functions, Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Azure Storage and Key Vault.
- Knowledge of Terraform is valued.
- Experience with GitHub.
- Knowledge of architecture governance, observability, SRE practices, cloud cost management, security and Data Governance.
- Experience with Agile methodologies, Jira and Confluence is valued.
- Previous experience working on projects is valued.
- Knowledge of the Energy & Utilities market and GDPR is valued.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively within global teams.
- Strong analytical and critical-thinking skills, with a problem-solving mindset.
- Strong commitment to delivery quality.
- English is mandatory; Portuguese and Spanish are valued.
- Proactive, collaborative and comfortable working in complex technical environments.
Are you looking for an environment that values curiosity and commitment? Here, your contribution has real impact and individual growth is taken seriously.
Find with us the right opportunity to grow!
What you can expect from us
- Long-term projects with national and international context.
- Opportunities to grow technically and professionally.
- A people-first culture, focused on transparency and trust.
- Teams that value ownership, collaboration and stability.
If you’re interested in this job please send your CV to [email protected] or [email protected], with the reference “Data”.
Thank you! :)
Decskill is committed to equality and non-discrimination with all our talents. We recruit and promote talent, based on diversity and inclusion, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality or any other form of discrimination incompatible with the dignity of the human being