Cloud Data Engineer - Portugal

We're looking for a Cloud Data Engineer to join a freelance long-term project with one of the world's leading professional services firms. Hybrid role — 2 days/week in Lisbon. You'll be at the center of a serious data platform build: end-to-end architectures, Azure-native stack, Medallion patterns, pipeline optimization. Not a maintenance gig — this is a foundational role with real architectural ownership that evolves over time. What you'll be working with:

Microsoft Azure: Fabric, Azure Data Factory, Synapse Data lakes & warehouses: Azure Data Lake, Delta Lake, BigQuery, Redshift Python (Pandas, Boto3), SQL, Spark RDBMS (Oracle, MS SQL) and NoSQL (MongoDB, Elasticsearch) CI/CD pipelines for data solutions (DataOps) Data quality, lineage tracking, monitoring at scale What we're looking for:

Solid experience designing end-to-end data architectures (Medallion or similar) Hands-on with Azure cloud-native tooling DevOps/DataOps mindset — not just building, but maintaining and scaling Strong English — written and verbal The setup: Hybrid Lisbon (2 days/week on-site). Freelance engagement via a Shakers, tech talent community that connects senior engineers with top international clients.