Available for select opportunities · Lisbon, Portugal

Daniela Patrício > Senior BI Engineer · Data Engineering roots · amplified with Agentic AI

I design and build end-to-end data solutions with deep Data Engineering roots: SQL pipelines, data warehouses, and automated reporting that turn raw operational data into decisions organizations can rely on. Work amplified with Agentic AI (Claude, Copilot, Cursor) to ship faster without giving up rigor, including this site itself.

8+ years in data
500+ stakeholders served
10k+ users reached
2,500+ hours/year automated
01 / about

Profile

Senior BI Engineer with deep Data Engineering roots, work amplified with Agentic AI. I design and build end-to-end data solutions: SQL pipelines, data warehousing, and automated reporting that guarantee information integrity and accessibility.

Most recently at CTT — Correios de Portugal, where I authored the #1 and #2 most-viewed Power BI reports across the entire company (and most of the top 10 overall), supporting decision-making across 20+ departments and 500+ stakeholders, including executive leadership. Day-to-day toolkit: Power BI, SQL Server, Azure Databricks (including Databricks SQL) and Power Automate; earlier in the same role, PySpark on the medallion pipelines. Years of analysing event-level operational data across a national distribution network: sequence, stage-by-stage drop-off, SLA per hop.

When I onboard a new domain, I tend to map it onto the previous one at the data-model level. At CTT, postal logistics became the electrical distribution network I knew from EDP: sorting centers as substations, mailmen as meters. That isn't a metaphor. Both industries produce event and state data on a redundant distribution network, and both ask the same questions of it: uptime, incidents, loss per node.

My work is about helping people do more fulfilling tasks by automating information delivery: taking repetitive reporting off their plates so attention can go to decisions and judgment.

I do my best work in async environments that value autonomy: outcomes over activity, writing over meetings, building over reacting.

And I care about the next person who'll read the work: consistent nomenclature, readable schemas, decisions documented inline.

Same logic, applied to people: direct conversations over polite ambiguity, clearer for everyone, faster to converge.

02 / experience

Experience

  1. Sep 2020 — Aug 2026 Lisbon, PT

    Senior BI Engineer

    CTT — Correios de Portugal
    National postal operator

    • Built and maintained data products on a medallion-style architecture using Azure Data Factory, Azure Data Lake, Databricks, and SQL Server (Databricks SQL for internal self-service). Authored Databricks notebooks (PySpark and SQL) reading parquet landed in the lake by Data Factory and transforming it from raw through stage to curated, plus new dimensions and extensions to existing fact and dimension tables.
    • Co-owned the operational data pipeline sourcing event-level delivery data (every object emits events at each network stage) into Power BI and broader analytics, with Grafana for monitoring + stage-by-stage data reconciliation, plus failed-run triage, debugging, and ongoing reliability.
    • Built centralised data warehouse structures supporting decision-making across 20+ departments and 500+ stakeholders, including executive leadership.
    • Designed and deployed an Operational Alarms system with near real-time data streams (Power Automate) supporting proactive service-quality actions.

    key results

    • Architected Power BI Row-Level Security for the Quality of Service multi-tenant data product, embedded end-to-end on CTT's website: custom user-to-data dimension via USERPRINCIPALNAME(), coordinated with site authentication. 10,000+ users at time of build.
    • Authored the #1 and #2 most-viewed Power BI reports across CTT (and most of the top 10 overall) on the company's Power BI server.
    • NPS dashboard, built to the precision required for shareholder visibility, used by executive leadership to guide strategy.
    Power BIDAXPower Query MSQLSSMSSSASAzure DatabricksDatabricks SQLAzure Data FactoryPower AutomateGrafanaPythonPySparkAzure DevOpsAgile (Kanban)
  2. Jan 2019 — Aug 2020 Lisbon, PT

    Data Analyst

    Audiogest / PassMúsica
    National music rights society

    • Designed, optimized, and maintained SQL-based ETL processes and Power BI data models, centralizing data from Management, Operations, HR, and Legal.
    • Automated reporting pipelines and refresh cycles, improving reliability and reducing manual maintenance.
    • Defined and documented KPIs and data structures in collaboration with stakeholders, aligning analytics with business objectives.

    key results

    • Reduced reporting workload by 100+ hours per year through SQL optimization and automation.
    • Streamlined Rights Distribution data processes, improving accuracy and timeliness for management reporting.
    Power BIDAXPower Query MSQLExcel (VBA)Qlik
  3. Mar 2018 — Aug 2018 Lisbon, PT

    Business Intelligence Consultant

    Multivision (project at Nokia)

    • Collaborated with Sales, HR, and Product teams to design interactive Power BI dashboards and datasets supporting ad-hoc and recurring decisions.
    • Administered the SharePoint workspace, managing datasets, access, and data availability for stakeholders.

    key results

    • Automated a time-intensive monthly reporting process, saving ~2,500 hours/year across five teams.
    Power BIDAXPower Query MSharePointAgile (Kanban)
  4. Jun 2016 — Mar 2017 Lisbon, PT

    Business Intelligence & Contract Management Intern

    EDP Distribuição
    National electricity distribution grid

    • Built OBIEE dashboards on the telecontrol grid that remotely operates and monitors substations and transformation posts: substation downtime, incidents by geographical area, and grid-state KPIs used by management and support teams.
    • Supported optimization of Contract Management processes by standardizing procedures and improving information flow.
    • Designed and maintained the SharePoint site for Contract Management, enhancing document accessibility and version control.
    OBIEESharePointServiceNow

education

Postgraduate in Information Management

Specialization in Business Intelligence & Knowledge Management

NOVA IMS · Lisbon · 2019 — 2020

Master's Degree in Marketing

Universidade do Algarve · Faro · 2010 — 2015

Bachelor's Degree in Hospitality Management

Universidade do Algarve · Faro · 2007 — 2010

03 / skills

Tech Stack

Visualization & Reporting

Power BI Qlik DAX Power Query M

Data Engineering & ETL

SQL Server Azure Databricks Databricks SQL Power Automate SSMS SSAS Python PySpark Excel (VBA) Git Grafana

Methodologies

Data Warehousing Data Modeling Data Governance Agile (Kanban) CI/CD Azure DevOps

Agentic AI

Claude Code Cursor Microsoft Copilot ChatGPT Gemini

# Used across professional work, personal projects, and continuous exploration

04 / portfolio

Projects

A growing collection of case studies, dashboards, and data tools.

05 / beyond data

Off-Screen

06 / contact

Let's talk data

Open to conversations about data, BI strategy, or interesting problems. Reach out through any of the channels below.

Email daniela.a.s.patricio@gmail.com LinkedIn /in/danielaaspatricio GitHub /DanielaPatricio CV · English Download PDF CV · Português Descarregar PDF