Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer

Job title: Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer

Start date: ASAP

Initial duration: 12 months+

Location: Hybrid - 60/40% remote + Lisbon OR Porto

Daily rate: EUR250-300.00

Language skills: Fluent English and Portuguese are essential

Our client is a multinational industry-leader. They have an urgent and exiting requirement for an Data Scientist / Machine Learning Engineer to join them on a freelance basis.

Competências: SCRUM, Python, SQL, Microsoft Azure

• Línguas: Inglês & Portuguese
• Nível de Experiência: Intermédio (3 - 5 anos)

Descrição:

The role involves working closely with data science teams to deploy GenAI and analytics models into production within a Databricks environment, operating under DevOps, and expanding into AzureML for GenAI use cases.

Responsibilities include contributing to the full development lifecycle and ensuring sustainable, high-quality solutions.

Candidates should have 3+ years’ experience as a technical data specialist (ML engineer, data engineer or data scientist), be strong team players, and challenge the status quo with an entrepreneurial, analytical, and pragmatic mindset.

Key technical skills include solid experience with Azure, Databricks, Python/PySpark, Git, and CI/CD pipelines (ideally in Azure DevOps). Knowledge of Python libraries (such as scikit-learn, pandas, mlflow), SQL or PySpark, Azure Machine Learning, and building data pipelines using Airflow or Databricks Pipelines is required. Agile/Scrum experience is a plus.