Senior Data Platform Engineer
Sword Health · Portugal
Software Engineering
Remote
Not yet analysed
Demand85
Career growth80
Healthcare fit20
Remote potential60
Salary band
EUR 53k – 83k
5-year outlook
Likely strong for senior data platform engineers in health tech, with compensation driven by distributed systems and lakehouse expertise; exact salary is not stated.
Clinical license
Not required
Applicant reach
narrow
Seniority
senior
Employment type
full-time
Date found
2026-10-19
Intelligence details
Flexible work details
- Engagement type
- Contract
- Hours
- Variable hours
- Rate period
- Annual
Why this was classified this way
- contract
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Why this is worth applying to
Only worth applying for clinicians who already have senior data platform engineering experience; typical clinicians without production data engineering backgrounds will not be competitive.
Who should apply
Clinicians who have transitioned into data engineering or platform engineering, or healthcare graduates with strong distributed systems, lakehouse, and streaming experience.
CV angle
Frame real experience around production data platforms, streaming lakehouse design, Iceberg/Delta/Hudi, Flink/Spark, durable workflows, API-first self-service, governance/lineage, and regulated healthcare data. Translate clinical domain knowledge into healthcare data context, not patient-care claims.
Skills to highlight
- Data lakehouse architecture
- Apache Iceberg
- Distributed streaming with Flink or Spark
- Durable execution workflows
- API-first platform design
- Data governance and lineage
- Cloud data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks, or Starburst
- AI/LLM-assisted development
Role summary
A senior software engineering role building and operating Sword Health’s streaming lakehouse, distributed data pipelines, durable workflows, and self-service/agentic data platform interfaces for clinical, operations, AI, and product teams.
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