Tiago Carvalhal

Senior Data Engineer | ETL & Azure

Salary / Daily rate

Coimbra, Portugal

Freelance

Remote only

Skills

SQL QueriesPower BIdbtAmazon RedshiftETLData VisualizationData AnalysisCRMERP

Languages

English

About me

Intro

Data Engineer with 5+ years of expertise in ETL development and business intelligence across private equity and consulting sectors. Specialized in Azure Data Factory, Databricks, DBT, and Power BI, with proven success standardizing data models across multiple portfolio companies. I deliver end-to-end data solutions—from API integrations to executive dashboards—that drive accurate, data-driven decision-making for your business.

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Work experience

Data Engineer

Prime Nearshore

Aug 2023 - Present

3 years 3 months

Lisbon, Portugal

Working at a private equity firm specializing in acquiring and managing companies. I focus on standardizing data models and reporting structures across portfolio companies to ensure consistency, accuracy, and efficiency in data-driven decision-making. Key Highlights: - ETL Development: Designing and implementing ETL processes using Azure Data Factory, Databricks, DBT, Redshift, and SQL. - Integrating data from ERP, CRM, and other sources via APIs and custom connectors. - Transforming raw data into structured Business Data Model (BDM) tables and CDC tables. - Managing and optimizing SQL Server databases. - Data Visualization: Developing and maintaining reports in Power BI. - Strategic Alignment: Ensuring data strategies align with business objectives and management needs.

Business & Data Analyst

Anova

Sep 2019 - Aug 2023

4 years

Coimbra, Portugal

- Development of ETL processes integrations and automations from SQL servers and API endpoints to Azure data factory/Databricks and Power BI Data flow - Building and maintaining Data models and Power BI reports/dashboards with strong knowledge of power query/M language and DAX - Administration of Power BI Premium service, defining roles and creating datasets/dataflows for team members - Delivering and reporting to higher managers, identifying requirements to drive the business to success - Conducting data analysis to identify trends and patterns in key business metrics such as financial, operations and logistics - Monitoring discrepancies and anomalies with strong knowledge of CRM and ERP systems

Skillent Lda

Sep 2016 - Oct 2019

3 years 2 months

Coimbra, Portugal

Project Manager

Mar 2017 - Oct 2019

2 years 8 months

Coimbra, Portugal

Director of the Projects department where I led the consulting team: • Support in the company's strategy and definition of objectives; • Present and develop proposals for clients; • Develop consulting actions in the areas of Impact Evaluation and Business Model; • Develop applications for European funding programs; • Manage projects (public procurement procedures, budget management and reimbursement requests, reporting). • Create control and management tools (Excel, VBA, SQL and Power BI); • Develop procedure manuals, activity reports, etc.

Project Manager

Sep 2016 - Mar 2017

7 months

Coimbra, Portugal

• Building construction project management


Education

Coimbra Higher Institute of Engineering

Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, auto_awesome Você quis dizer: Especialização em Projeto, Instalação e Manutenção de Sistemas Térmicos 73 Specialization in the Design, Installation, and Maintenance of Thermal Systems

2013 - 2015

3 years

Coimbra Higher Institute of Engineering

Bachelor's degree in Electromechanical Engineering

2007 - 2010

4 years

Conservatório de Música de Coimbra

Curso complementar de Piano

1998 - 2008

11 years


Licenses & certifications

Get started with Microsoft Fabric

Issued: May 2023

Certified by Microsoft

Master Excel Power Query (Leila Gharani)

Issued: Aug 2021

Certified by Udemy

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