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Senior Data Engineer

Portugal - Lisbonsenior
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Key Responsibilities

Design, develop, and maintain data solutions for data generation, collection,

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Join our team at AMGEN Capability Center Portugal, the #1 company in Best Workplaces™ (201–500 employees' category) in Portugal in 2024 by the Great Place to Work Institute. With over 500 talented individuals from more than 40 nationalities, our Lisbon center thrives at the intersection of innovation, excellence, and inspiration. This is your opportunity to explore the future of healthcare through technology and digital innovation, supporting our mission To Serve Patients.  

 

Senior Data Engineer

At AMGEN, Technology isn’t just a support function—it’s a catalyst for discovery, transformation, and real-world impact. Here, your ideas fuel innovation that improves and saves lives of patients in dire need of our medicines. Are you ready to do meaningful work that matters? 

 

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What you will do 

As Senior Data Engineer you will be responsible for designing, building, maintaining, analyzing, and interpreting data to provide actionable insights that drive business decisions. This role involves working with large datasets, developing reports, supporting and executing data governance initiatives and, visualizing data to ensure data is accessible, reliable, and efficiently managed. The ideal candidate has strong technical skills, experience with big data technologies, and a deep understanding of data architecture and ETL processes

Let’s do this. Let’s change the world. In this vital role you will: 

  • Design, develop, and maintain data solutions for data generation, collection, and processing

  • Be a key team member that assists in design and development of the data pipeline

  • Create data pipelines and ensure data quality by implementing ETL processes to migrate and deploy data across systems

  • Contribute to the design, development, and implementation of data pipelines, ETL/ELT processes, and data integration solutions

  • Take ownership of data pipeline projects from inception to deployment, manage scope, timelines, and risks

  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand data requirements and design solutions that meet business needs

  • Develop and maintain data models, data dictionaries, and other documentation to ensure data accuracy and consistency

  • Implement data security and privacy measures to protect sensitive data

  • Leverage cloud platforms (AWS preferred) to build scalable and efficient data solutions

  • Collaborate and communicate effectively with product teams

  • Collaborate with Data Architects, Business SMEs, and Data Scientists to design and develop end-to-end data pipelines to meet fast paced business needs across geographic regions

  • Adhere to best practices for coding, testing, and designing reusable code/component

  • Explore new tools and technologies that will help to improve ETL platform performance

  • Participate in sprint planning meetings and provide estimations on technical implementation.

Win 

What we expect of you 

We are all different, yet we all use our unique contributions to serve patients. The tech professional we seek is a creative problem-solver and a team player with these qualifications: 

  • Bachelor’s degree and 3 to 5 years of Computer Science, IT or related field experience

  • Proficiency in Python, PySpark, and Scala for data processing and ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) workflows, with hands-on experience in using Databricks for building ETL pipelines and handling big data processing

  • Experience with data warehousing platforms such as Amazon Redshift, or Snowflake.

  • Strong knowledge of SQL and experience with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) databases.

  • Familiarity with big data frameworks like Apache Hadoop, Spark, and Kafka for handling large datasets.

  • Experienced with software engineering best-practices, including but not limited to version control (GitLab, Subversion, etc.), CI/CD (Jenkins, GITLab etc.), automated unit testing, and Dev Ops

  • Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS particularly in data services (e.g., EKS, EC2, S3, EMR, RDS, Redshift/Spectrum, Lambda, Glue, Athena)

  • Experience with Anaplan platform, including building, managing, and optimizing models and workflows including scalable data integrations

  • Understanding of machine learning pipelines and frameworks for ML/AI models

  • AWS Certified Data Engineer (preferred)

  • Databricks Certified (preferred)

  • Excellent critical-thinking and problem-solving skills

  • Strong communication and collaboration skills

  • Demonstrated awareness of how to function in a team setting

  • Demonstrated presentation skills

Thrive 

What you can expect of us 

As we work to develop treatments that take care of others, we also care deeply for our teammates’ well-being and growth. 

What We Offer

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35,571.65 EUR - 48,126.35 EUR

Location & Eligibility

Where is the job
Portugal - Lisbon
On-site at the office
Who can apply
Open to applicants worldwide

Listing Details

Posted
July 7, 2026
First seen
July 14, 2026
Last seen
July 16, 2026

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