Job Title: Head of Data Engineering & Data Products

Location: Porto, Portugal (preferred) or Barcelona, Spain (optional)

Type: Full-time - Hybrid working

Reports to: Group CITO

Unilabs is on a multi-year journey to become Europe's leading diagnostics company. To achieve this, we are strengthening our ability to operate at scale across markets, leverage synergies across our network, and continuously evolve to meet the changing needs of patients, clinicians, and healthcare ecosystems.

As part of our broader transformation journey to build a more agile, efficient, and patient-centred organisation, while strengthening our operational, medical, and commercial performance, we are looking to recruit a Head of Data Engineering & Data Products based in Porto, Portugal.

This role is central to establishing scalable enterprise data foundations within UniTech, transforming a fragmented landscape into a trusted, product-driven data capability that enables operational reporting, self-service analytics, intelligent automation, and data-driven decision-making across Unilabs geographies.





The Head of Data Engineering & Data Products will define and execute the enterprise data platform strategy, building scalable and reusable data capabilities serving country and functional needs across core operational domains including operations, finance, sales, and HR.

The immediate focus over the next 12-18 months will be on:

establishing strong enterprise data engineering capabilities,
delivering trusted operational reporting,
productizing fragmented reporting and analytics into reusable enterprise data products,
enabling self-service operational insights,
and creating scalable data foundations for future intelligent automation and AI-supported operational workflows

The role requires a pragmatic, delivery-oriented leader capable of balancing speed, usability, governance, and scalability while driving measurable operational value across Unilabs.

The current team comprises approximately

📌 Head of Data Engineering (Barcelona)
🏢 Unilabs
📍 Barcelona