Data Engineer

Company Description

Alter Solutions Portugal is an IT Consultancy Company, promoter of Digital Transformation, part of the Alter Solutions Group, created in 2006, in Paris.

In 2022, Alter Solutions joined the act digital group, constituting a global community of talent in Technology, with presence in thirteen countries: Germany, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, United States of America, Mexico, Morocco, Spain, France, Luxembourg, Poland, Portugal and Serbia. Also in 2023, we were certified as a Great Place to Work©.

In Portugal, we partner with over 120 clients and a team of over 500 people, working in projects for industries as diverse as banking, insurance, transportation, aviation, energy, and telecom.

Headquarters of the Nearshore IT center, Alter Solutions Portugal has a dedicated team of around 30 specialized professionals, integrated into projects with several internationally renowned clients.

Job Description

Job Description :

• Quantitative Data Intelligence  (QDI) team is responsible for providing data, insights, and analysis to Global Markets front office.
• The team aims to build a solid database from various sources and develop analysis, reports and dashboards to provide valuable insight to the Front Office in a rapid, agile manner.
• Our team is responsible for multiple steps regarding data processing: Data Feeds industrialization, ETL, Data Warehousing and Data Visualization. We are in direct contact with business sponsors, sales, and traders.
• We seek to shape the technologies available to the client’s needs - we plan in processing the data using Python and SQL, while delivering the final product in Tableau, Power BI, APIs, and Chat bots.  

Main Tasks:

• Leverage large volumes of data from internal sources.
• Develop, maintain, and support data pipelines.    
• Understand and be the point of contact for the business and  assess its needs
• Ensure architecture meets business requirements.
• Recommend ways to efficiently provide quality data and added value.
• Communicate technical information to non-technical stakeholders, including data analysts, product managers, and business leaders.
• Prioritize and manage multiple projects simultaneously, meeting deadlines and delivering high-quality results.

Qualifications

Technical skills:

• Academic background in Engineering, Economics, Computing, Mathematics, Statistics or related fields
• 3+ years of experience in data engineering, with a strong background in data architecture
• Availability to work in the hybrid model or in person in the Lisbon or Porto office
• Professional experience in any data visualization tool such as Tableau or Power BI  
• Professional experience in data analysis with programming, preferably Python (Pandas)
• Proficiency in SQL
• Fluency in written and spoken English
• Ability to analysze, synthetize and simplify
• Knowledge of descriptive statistics and hypothesis testing is a plus
• Knowledge in Big Data technology such as Pyspark, Presto and Airflow is a plus
• Knowledge of Power Query and DAX is a plus
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
• Strong organizational skills, with the ability to prioritize multiple projects and meet deadlines 
• Fluency in English 

Soft skills:

• Be driven, enthusiastic and dynamic in search of improving processes, controls & procedure
• Be pro-active, enthusiastic and able to work well in a team