Senior Data Engineer I - Platform generative AI
McKinsey & Company
Software Engineering, Data Science
Lisbon, Portugal · Prague, Czechia
Posted on Mar 14, 2025
Senior Data Engineer I - Platform generative AI
Job ID: 95657
Do you want to work on complex and pressing challenges—the kind that bring together curious, ambitious, and determined leaders who strive to become better every day? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place.
Your Impact
We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer to help enabling generative AI (gen AI) application with data. You’ll learn what it’s like to build and work on a gen AI product that has firm-wide impact.
As part of the team, you will sit at the technical side and work closely with product professionals to deliver data processing capabilities enabling top use cases to transform how we work using gen AI. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product managers, data scientists, engineers, data engineers, designers, and Firm stakeholders, to define product requirements, prioritize features, and drive a successful delivery.
You will play a key role in our Data Engineering team, designing, developing, and maintaining our data pipelines & infrastructure. You will collaborate with team members to implement scalable data solutions and participate in meetings, code reviews, and problem-solving sessions.
Your responsibilities will include improving tooling and development processes to enhance efficiency and productivity, developing internal tools to streamline workflows, and advocating for best practices in data engineering. You will also mentor junior engineers to ensure high-quality code.
In the event of production incidents, you will work with the operations team to diagnose and resolve issues quickly, developing monitoring solutions to prevent future problems. Maintaining high-quality deliverables is essential, and you will contribute to enhancing testing frameworks and tools.
Staying current with industry trends, you will integrate new tools and methodologies into our processes and participate in post-mortem analyses to identify and implement improvements. Your expertise will help ensure our team delivers high-quality data solutions efficiently.
Your Growth
You’ll be a member of a global team working on our generative AI initiative. McKinsey’s Tech Ecosystem function is responsible for developing and delivering all technology solutions for the firm’s internal use. We are taking a cloud-first approach to transform our data platforms and analytical applications across the firm.
Your qualifications and skills
- 5+ years of professional experience as a data engineer, with a strong focus on cloud- based data engineering using AWS services
- Expertise with Python development
- Practicing high coding standards with clean code, modularity, error handling, testing automation and more
- Strong experience with relational databases
- Hands-on experience with Docker
- Solid and demonstrable background in data pipeline performance and diagnostics
- Interest in generative AI and other ML topics
- Kedro framework experience as a plus
- Familiarity with agile principles and product development
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to analyze and resolve complex data engineering challenges
- Very driven, super strong on execution and output orientation, likes to get job done attitude and ability to figure things out independently
- Holds his/her ground, opinionated, not afraid to speak up at any level
- Ability to work in complex and very fast paced environment
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment
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Job Skill Code - FDTP - Senior Data Engineer I
Function - Technology
Industry - High Tech
Post to LinkedIn - Yes
Posted to LinkedIn Date - Mon Jan 27 00:00:00 GMT 2025
LinkedIn Posting City - Lisbon
LinkedIn Posting State/Province -
LinkedIn Posting Country - Portugal
LinkedIn Job Title - Senior Data Engineer I - Platform generative AI
LinkedIn Function - Information Technology
LinkedIn Industry - Computer Software;Information Technology and Services;Management Consulting
LinkedIn Seniority Level - Executive