Volkswagen Group

Platform Data Engineer – Azure

Volkswagen Group

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Lisbon • Portugal

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Tech Stack

AzureCloudETLPython

About the role

  • Designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines and ETL/ELT workflows using Python, and Azure services.
  • Building analytics tools that use the data pipeline to provide actionable insights into customer acquisition, operational efficiency, and other key business performance metrics.
  • Managing data ingestion, orchestration, transformation, quality, and curation at scale.
  • Implementing and maintaining systems via event-driven architectures and APIs.
  • Collaborating closely with Data Scientists, product teams, and business stakeholders to translate data needs into robust solutions.
  • Ensuring high engineering standards: unit testing, mocking, CI/CD, code quality, repository structure, environment setup.
  • Providing technical guidance, code reviews, and mentoring to team members.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, or comparable work experience
  • Proven experience working as an Data Engineer or related role
  • Solid hands-on experience with Azure infrastructure, including App Service, AI Services (Document Intelligence, AI Search, OpenAI services), Data Factory, Databricks, Azure Functions, Storage, Networking, Identity/RBAC and quota management
  • Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Bicep
  • Strong background in reliability engineering, including monitoring, logging, troubleshooting and performance tuning
  • Proven experience in cloud cost optimization
  • Experience in Azure cloud architecture and best practices
  • Practical knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions
  • Basic Python proficiency, including reading codebases and performing minor code modifications
  • Strong communication and analytical skills
  • Excellent English skills, both written and spoken
  • Strong understanding of data security and privacy best practices
Benefits
  • 1200€ to equip your home office
  • Flex allowance: 720€/year (60€ per month x12)
  • Performance bonus
  • Health insurance extendable to your household
  • Wellbeing program extendable to your household
  • Life insurance
  • Pension fund
  • Smartphone & phone data plan
  • Discounts on VW Group cars and special financing conditions
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonETLELTAzureInfrastructure as CodeBicepCI/CDdata pipelinereliability engineeringdata security
Soft Skills
communicationanalyticalmentoringcollaboration
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in computer scienceBachelor's degree in software engineering