Data Engineer GCP (Google Cloud Plataform)

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.

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)