About this role
<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">This role offers the opportunity to shape the ingestion backbone of a modern banking data platform. The successful candidate will influence enterprise-scale engineering standards on Microsoft Fabric in a context where resilience, security, and delivery quality are business critical. You will work on strategic data flows, contribute to target architecture, and help define the patterns that other delivery teams across the bank will rely on.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p> <p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Senior Microsoft Fabric Engineer</span></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><strong>Local:</strong> Porto Salvo / TagusPark</span></p> <p style="text-align:center"> </p> <h1 style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Key Responsibilities</span></h1> <ul> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Design and implement robust ingestion solutions on Microsoft Fabric using the appropriate combination of Data Factory, Spark-based engineering workloads, Lakehouse patterns, and event-driven ingestion capabilities.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Build reusable ingestion frameworks, templates, and deployment standards that accelerate onboarding of new source systems while maintaining engineering consistency and control.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Develop and maintain ingestion pipelines for structured, semi-structured, and streaming data from internal banking systems, external partners, SaaS platforms, APIs, file-based interfaces, and event platforms.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Engineer ingestion patterns that support traceability, restartability, idempotency, reconciliation, controlled reprocessing, and clear production support procedures.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Define and implement standards for metadata capture, schema evolution, lineage support, data quality controls, and operational logging.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Embed secure-by-design implementation practices including strong identity integration, least-privilege access, secrets handling, and support for data classification and sensitivity controls.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Implement CI/CD, environment promotion, version control, and automated testing practices for ingestion assets across development, test, and production environments.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Define and improve observability for ingestion services, including health monitoring, runtime telemetry, alerting, diagnostics, and operational dashboards.</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify;font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Support resilience objectives by designing for failure handling, controlled degradation, recovery procedures, and production readiness in line with banking expectations.</span></span></li> </ul> <h1 style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Preferred Qualifications</span></h1> <ul style="text-align:justify"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Experience in a bank or large financial institutions is preferred.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Experience with enterprise data governance and Purview-aligned metadata, classification, or lineage models.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Experience integrating Fabric with broader Azure services and enterprise identity and security controls.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Experience with Kafka, Event Hubs, CDC-based ingestion, or near real-time ingestion patterns.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Experience designing reusable internal platforms or engineering products for multiple delivery teams.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Familiarity with non-functional requirements in regulated environments, including resiliency, recoverability, supportability, and evidencing of compliance.</span></li> </ul> <p style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </p> <p style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><strong><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Personal Profile</span></strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;text-align:justify;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Strong engineering ownership and delivery focus.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;text-align:justify;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Able to balance speed with rigor, control, and production readiness.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;text-align:justify;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Comfortable working across architecture, engineering, operations, and governance domains.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;text-align:justify;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Strong stakeholder communication skills, including the ability to explain engineering trade-offs clearly to non-engineering audiences.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;text-align:justify;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">High attention to detail and strong commitment to quality, resilience, and secure delivery.</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;text-align:justify;color:black"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Proactive, pragmatic, and effective in complex enterprise environments.</span></li> </ul>