Data Engineer Intern

Data Engineer Intern on Open Source Projects
FR or NL + EN

Ever wondered what it feels like to be at the cutting edge of digital innovation? Our Digital Services team at Orange Business is a dynamic community of expert consultants revolutionizing Customer Experience, Cloud, Data, and AI across various sectors, including retail, finance, manufacturing, life sciences, and public services.

With 30 years of expertise, we champion open source innovation and collaborative development, helping businesses unlock the full potential of their data ecosystems through transparent, sustainable, and community-driven technological solutions.

We have a significant international presence, with 20% of our activity extending beyond Belgium, and this number continues to grow. By joining us, you will be part of a global impact on businesses around the world.

Check out some of our ongoing projects:

• At Carrefour, Orange Business ensures the seamless operation and evolution of the Data Platform, managing both analytical and operational data flows with a focus on reliability and performance. We handle diverse workloads, including batch and stream processing. By processing everyday terabytes of data that feed dashboards and web APIs, we empower Carrefour to leverage data-driven insights and support their business growth.
• Our customer Sappi, a global pulp and paper company, requested our help to significantly reduce energy costs and offer capacity in energy balancing markets on a daily basis. You could join the team creating, deploying and optimizing multiple forecasting algorithms on GCP.
• For Paradigm, Orange Business created a data platform and a unified set of tools for all public sector to conduct data projects, with a focus on Kubernetes and DevOps processes to enable self-service and standardization. We were able to handle many projects from all administrations, ranging from API management to data processing & analytics, as well as data science modelling.

If you want to take part in this exciting journey, please take a look at the following requirements and let’s meet up if that matches your profile!

What You’ll Do:
All the responsibilities we’ll trust you with

As a Data Engineer Intern, you will take part in the development of an innovative open-source dependency mapping platform that will change how organizations understand and manage their IT system interdependencies. This role offers the unique opportunity to build industry-defining technology while gaining high visibility in the open-source community through contributions that will impact companies worldwide.

System Discovery & Mapping:

• Design and implement automated discovery mechanisms to identify and catalog IT system dependencies across diverse enterprise environments
• Build robust data pipelines to continuously monitor and map relationships between systems ranging from Cloud provider to SAP to BI tools and beyond

Data Pipeline Architecture:

• Develop scalable Python-based data processing pipelines on Google Cloud Platform
• Design efficient data ingestion, transformation, and storage solutions to handle complex dependency graphs

Business Intelligence & Insights:

• Transform dependency data into actionable business insights and recommendations
• Create automated alerting and monitoring systems for critical dependency changes

Who you are:  
What matters most for this role

Your interests & soft skills:

• Proactive mindset and innovative thinking to pioneer solutions that will set new industry standards
• Passion for open source development and building tools that create lasting impact across organizations
• Entrepreneurial spirit with enthusiasm for launching projects that gain high visibility and drive industry transformation
• Strong collaborative approach, thriving in cross-functional teams while contributing to a global open source community
• Excellent communication and presentation skills in French and/or Dutch + English to engage with diverse stakeholders and the open source community

Your technical knowledge:

• Data Engineering: Advanced proficiency in Python
• Dependency Mapping & Analysis: Understanding of system interdependencies, data lineage, and impact analysis methodologies
• Database Technologies: Strong SQL skills and experience with both relational and NoSQL databases
• DevOps & Version Control: Proficiency with Git, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure as code practices
• Open Source Development: Experience contributing to or maintaining open source projects, understanding of community-driven development practices
• Cloud Platforms: Hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a plus.

Why you should join us:
Some of the rewards of working as an intern at Orange Business

• Career growth possibilities with a possibility to be hired with a permanent contract.
• A community of experts - as Digital Natives, we put innovation at the heart of our expertise. Continuously seeking new ideas, we proudly host regular “Guild” workshops and knowledge-sharing sessions through our Data Meetups.
• We may work with tomorrow’s technology, but at our core we are a people-oriented organization and we are proud to have our Great Place to Work certification
• An open and inclusive culture, that enables us to reach our full potential.
• Hybrid way of working and modern & collaborative office in Brussels

Apply now

We can’t wait to meet you!

More about Orange Business:

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