Location: 2days/week Brussels and 3days/week remote (after training) occasionally travel to Berlin
Languages: English (must have) AND fluent in German/French or Dutch (soft requirement)
Employment Type: Freelance
Start Date: ASAP
Context of the mission/objective(s) of the job
Within the corporate Digital & Data department, we aim at facilitating and driving our organization to leverage data.
At client, data is considered as a major asset for the business to achieve its targets (strategic ambitions, innovation or transformation themes, objectives and regulatory compliance).
With our Data platform consisting out of
- Cutting-edge Integration Toolset,
- Business Intelligence, Analytics and Storage capabilities,
- A platform for the Management of Master Data,
- A Data Governance platform that encompasses Data Lineage and Data Quality.
With our Data organization consisting out of
- Business Product Teams (supporting the business stakeholder initiatives, organized according to the Agile principles)
- Backbone/Platform Teams (supporting the data platform initiatives, organized according to the Agile principles)
- Transversal competencies Team (supporting the various profiles and technologies initiatives, organized according to the Agile principles (Spotify))
We are looking for Data Engineers able to create data pipelines, efficient Storage structures, powerful materialized views in different analytical technologies, but also data exchange endpoints at destination of our users. To some extent, you'll also have to interact with aspect related to governance tools (Glossary, Modeling, Lineage, or Data Quality...).
Requirements
- At least 3 years' experience in a similar role
- Usage of the SQL server
- Implementing data pipelines using Azure services such as Azure Databricks, but also to some extent Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Azure Stream/log Analytics, and Azure DevOps
- Implementing data pipelines or data enrichments with Python in a Databricks environment
- Language skills: fluent in English (must have) AND fluent in German/French or Dutch (soft requirement)
- Open to learn and jump on new technologies (on the ones listed above, or also Redis, RabbitMQ, Neo4j, or Apache Arrow, ...)
- Able and willing to interact with business analysts and stakeholders to refine some requirements and to present reusable and integrated solution
- Able and willing to contribute to extensive testing of the solution, as the reinforcement of DevOps principles within the team
- Able and willing to contribute to the writing and structuration of documentation
- Experience with PowerBI
- Able to challenge your interlocutors by leveraging your rational thinking, and no non-sense philosophy.
- Continuously look at data in a transversal way (no siloes), across the entire Enterprise, to maximize coherence, reuse and adoption.
- Track record of driving results through continuous improvement
- Customer-oriented
- Thinking Iterative
- Analytical approach to problem-solving and a track record of driving results through continuous improvement
- Team player breathing respect, open-mind, dare, challenge, innovation and one team/voice for the Customer
- Product-oriented mindset
- Enjoy sharing ideas with the team (or with other teams) and contribute to the product success
- Good communication skills
