Data Engineer GCP (Google Cloud Plataform)

act digital

Apply to this job
Porto, pt on site Until 8/22/2026 First posted April 19, 2025 Last posted February 23, 2026
Job description

We are looking for a skilled Data Engineer to join our team. As a Data Engineer, you will be 
responsible for understanding business and technological challenges, develop data pipelines 
tackling those challenges, and ensuring their smooth deployment. You will as well be 
responsible of the applications of standard industry and within-the-company good practices,
and the application and evolution of our various patterns. This is a remote position.

 
MAIN RESPONSABILITIES
• Projects understanding and Communication
o Understand problems from a user perspective and communicate to clearly 
understand the issue.
o Ensure the architecture provided by the Data Architect is clearly understood by 
yourself.
o Communicate with the Data Architect and your peers on the technical solution 
you’re developing and communicate with the Project Manager in charge of the 
project you’re working on.


• Development
o Write and communicate on new or updated interface contracts.
o Develop data pipelines based on the defined architecture.
o Ensure the regular good practices are applied.
o Deploy requested infrastructure, particularly using Terraform.
o Make peer reviews and ask to your peers to review your code when merging a 
new version of the codebase. 


• Testing
o Define tests with your project manager, based on the functional and technical 
requirements of the pipeline you’re developing.
o Perform those tests and communicate regularly on the results.
o Regularly summarize the results of your tests in a dedicated document.
• Deployments
o Present to the Data Architect in charge of the architecture, and the Lead 
DataOps, the development that was performed through our Deployment 
Reviews.
o Track and communicate on any potential errors in the entire period of active 
monitoring following a deployment.
o Ensure diligent application of deployment process, logging, and monitoring 
strategy.


REQUESTED HARD SKILLS
• Google Cloud Platform: General knowledge of the platform and various services, 
and at least one year of experience with GCP.
• Azure Cloud Platform: A general knowledge of the platform is a plus.
• Apache Airflow: At least two years of experience with the Airflow orchestrator, 
experience with Google Composer is a plus.
• Google BigQuery: Extensive experience (at least 2 years) with GBQ, know how to 
optimize tables and queries, and able to design database architecture. The 
candidate should know more than the regular creation of tables, and should be 
aware of trade-offs in developing and deploying some infrastructure versus others.
• Terraform: At least one years of experience with Terraform.
• Apache Spark: This is an optional expertise we would highly value. Some of our 
pipelines are slowly being rewritten using pySpark, the Data Engineer should be 
able to maintain get them evolving.
• Additional knowledge and experience that are a plus:
o Pub/Sub
o Kafka
o Google Cloud Storage
o Dataflow (or Apache Beam)

About this role

Summary

Develop and deploy data pipelines on GCP, optimize queries, and ensure best practices.

Job title

Data Engineer GCP (Google Cloud Plataform)

Experience level

2+ years

Industry

software

Location requirements

remote, Porto, pt

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

GCPApache AirflowBigQueryTerraform

Preferred skills

AzureApache SparkPub/SubKafkaDataflow

Specializations

cloud platformdata pipelinesbigqueryterraformspark
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Porto, Portugal

Remote City

Porto, Portugal

On-site City