Data Solution Architect | Porto

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 would like to meet a Data Products Architect for a project with an international context.

This role will be part of a Data Products Architecture team, designing and implementing a Data Mesh approach within a cloud transformation program.

You will provide architectural guidance to globally distributed analytics and operational teams, enabling efficient data sharing and usage across the organization.

What You’ll Do:

• Act as a reference point for architecture definition and data product development in a Data Mesh setting serving operational applications.
• Serve as a contact for Data Product teams.
• Provide onboarding guidance.
• Provide best-practice guidelines for modern data processing.
• Support Data Product teams throughout their lifecycle, including:
• Ideation.
• Specification.
• Architectural design.
• Prototyping.
• Production integration.
• Design scalable, efficient, and future-proof data architectures.
• Ensure cloud-based infrastructure is leveraged optimally across data products and systems.
• Provide strategic guidance on data processing, cloud development, and data warehousing.
• Integrate solutions into the Data Mesh ecosystem.
• Align solutions with infrastructure best practices and organizational needs.

What We’re Looking For:

• Previous experience as a Senior Data Engineer or Data Architect in an AWS cloud environment.
• Experience designing scalable and maintainable end-to-end data flows.
• Hands-on experience designing solutions for data pipelines and orchestration in a Big Data/Data Mesh context.
• Strong DevOps culture.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience with Data Mesh.
• Experience with Event-Driven Architecture.
• Experience with Domain-Driven Design.
• Experience designing end-to-end data flows, including ingestion, transformation, storage, access, and governance.
• Ability to select the right tools and recommended configuration for the job.
• Experience with:
• Batching.
• Micro-batching.
• Real-time streaming.
• Experience with metadata management.
• Experience with cataloguing.
• Understanding of data governance implications.
• Experience designing asynchronous and synchronous APIs/interfaces.
• Strong understanding of code modularity, testing, and deployment considerations.
• Ability to balance consumer requirements, source data constraints, and business priorities.

Tools & Technologies:

• AWS
• Snowflake
• Spark
• Kafka
• Spark Structured Streaming
• Flink
• Kafka Streams
• Dagster
• dbt
• AWS Glue
• Terraform

Soft Skills:

• Ability to abstract technical solutions into reusable, understandable designs for engineers and business stakeholders.
• Ability to lead solution design sessions.
• Self-driven.
• Autonomous.
• Organized over frequent context switches.
• Team player.
• Collaborative.
• Willing to mentor and empower others.

Languages:

• English communication at a level that allows evangelization to globally distributed technical and business stakeholders.

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 autonomy, ownership, collaboration, and innovation.
• An international environment with diverse challenges and long-term career opportunities.

Send us your CV in English to joao.capela@decskill.com with reference “JC / Data Products Architect”.

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At Decskill, we are committed to equal opportunities and non-discrimination. We promote a culture of diversity and inclusion, where recruitment and career progression are based exclusively on talent, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, race, nationality, or any other form of discrimination incompatible with human dignity.