Senior Data Engineer

Hiscox

Senior Data Engineer responsible for data acquisition, transformation, and delivery for Hiscox's retail data needs. Participating in projects and building relationships with internal and external stakeholders in a hybrid work environment.

Posted 6/19/2026full-timeLisbon • 🇵🇹 PortugalSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AzureSSIS

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

You will be responsible to represent the team in projects and deliver them end to end;
Act as the single point of contact for the team in large projects;
Review the work and coach junior team members, including embedded peer review process;
Design and build data pipelines to collect data from different sources for different purposes and types of consumption across the whole data engineering life cycle;
Maintaining the existing processes in place, monitoring batch failures, acting accordingly in identifying and resolving the root cause and communicate with stakeholders on resolution and timescales;

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience working with Microsoft Azure Data Lake Storage, Microsoft Azure Data Factory, Databricks, EventHub, SSIS and relational databases;
Passion for and experience of building data analytical platforms to deliver business value;
Good understanding of different types of data (i.e. structured, semi-structured and unstructured data) and the considerations that should be made in how they are stored;
Ability to contribute to all aspects of technical solutions to business problems – design, infrastructure, development, testing and maintenance;
Track record of taking initiative and delivering projects end-to-end; clear evidence of being self-driven/ motivated, working autonomy;
Experience performing root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions, identify the source of any data errors or performance issues, identify opportunities for improvement and solve and /or implement them;
The ability to communicate with all levels, and be confident enough to lead meetings, negotiate deliveries and deadlines and represent the team in projects;
Immense curiosity, high energy and desire to go the extra mile to make a difference;

Benefits

Comp & perks

great employee benefits that take care of your mental and physical wellbeing

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Hard Skills & Tools

data pipelinesdata engineeringroot cause analysisdata analytical platformsstructured datasemi-structured dataunstructured datainfrastructure developmenttestingmaintenance

Soft Skills

coachingcommunicationinitiativeself-drivenautonomyleadershipnegotiationcuriosityenergyproblem-solving