Data Engineer

At Basic-Fit, we are on a mission to make fitness accessible for everyone. And we are well on our way! With 4.2 million members and more than 1,500 clubs in 6 different countries, we are the largest gym chain in Europe, and we’re not slowing down any time soon—we open a new Basic-Fit almost every day! Basic-Fit’s Data Platform team is expanding and looking for a Data Engineer!

This is what your assignment looks like 

As a Data Engineer, your role is to translate project definitions and ad-hoc requests into new and innovative solutions. As part of one of the Agile teams, you will plan and implement technical solutions within our cloud-based Azure platform. At the same time, you will be a key player in various companywide data driven projects and working groups. Furthermore, you will create innovative and creative solutions to integrate data from disparate systems, and you will contribute to the ever growing and expanding CI/CD process to deploy developed code through the development lifecycle.  

About the position
Data Engineers build and manage the massive data infrastructure through fundamental work on product analytics, dashboards, queries to add more value to our members.

By designing data models and pipelines that scale, our data engineers unlock insights that protect future product development and enable us to always build a few steps ahead. As part of the data engineering group, your work will contribute to success and the creation of seamless, data-driven business experiences for millions of people.

• Convert raw data into impact. Manipulate massive data sets into product insight gold to fuel a wide variety of data products for the customer facing

• Feel the scale. The work of data engineers creates data-driven business experiences for a wide users audience.

• Work with excellent peers. Working alongside other data engineers allows you to challenge each other (and peer-vet analysis) to set the standard for excellence, and to keep the quality high.

Data Platform Team
As Data Engineer, you will be working within the Data Platform Team with other data engineers, data analysts, a product owner and cooperate with different departments Finance, Marketing, Customer ServiceDesk) and external partners. Your role will be to maintain and improve the data platform, deliver high quality data and reports and working closely with the business. The team provides insights to support the business in taking actions that add value. You will be responsible to ensure that the foundations of all these processes functions are updated, maintained and improved.

To help you become the best version of yourself, you’ll even have a Talent Coach who looks out for your personal growth.

Besides all the amazing people you get to work with, you’ll also have a powerful arsenal of tools at your disposal:

What tech stack will you be using?
At Basic-Fit, we utilize the Microsoft development platform which includes on-premises solutions, as well as the cloud-based Azure data platform. We comprehensively use a combination of Microsoft on-premises and Azure products, which include DevOps, Data Factory, Databricks, Logic Apps, SQL Server, Datalake, Integration Services and PowerBI.

What it takes to work at Basic-Fit:

• You need to be a problem solver at heart.

• You understand that there is wide array of different people required to make the really big impact, and you are not afraid to knock on some doors to get things done.

• You are a team player and want to exchange knowledge.

• Working at Basic-Fit means you eat scale and complexity for breakfast, and that growth is a guarantee.

• You are eager to take responsibility and know how to manage risk well.

Your responsibilities:

• Develop and implement new solutions, as well as conceptual and logical data models; 

• Maintain and improve existing solutions for our Smart Data Platform; 

• Plan technical solutions and deploy the data architecture using cloud based technologies; 

• Contribute to the data warehouse architecture roadmap;  

• Identify, address and initiate data quality improvement initiatives; 

• Develop solutions to extract data from distributed APIs and import data through the ETL process; 

• Design and implement indexes considering the complex and diverse workloads; 

• Troubleshoot and resolve incidents from, ADF, Databricks, SSRS and SQL Server including infrastructure related. 

• Make Data available, execute pipelines and scale sets for the DataScience team to run models and generate insights. 

Furthermore, we require:

• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with ETL, PySpark, SparkSQL, T-SQL, Reporting and OLAP environments in Microsoft Azure (Data Bricks, Data Factory, Datalake, DWH, SQL Server, PowerBI, Fabric);

• Previous experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD pipelines.

• Interest in keep developing in the newest technologies.

• You communication skills in English are excellent, a second language Dutch, or intention to learn Dutch.

Additionally, these are optional advantageous:

• Experience with the Scrum / Agile methodology;

• Microsoft certification is appreciated

• Experience programming using Python; 

Our promise

Basic-Fit is a young, dynamic and fast growing organization with a clear mission. We are the European market leader in the value for money fitness market and we are active in the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, France and Spain. We think sport should be affordable and accessible to make sure everyone who wants to be fit will be able to be fit. Our goal is to professionalize and grow the next years. To make this happen we need enthusiastic, innovative and driven people. We do not select by color, we just ask you to embrace our orange color.

 Some extra benefits:

• We host internal hackathons (sometimes even in the club!)

• An informal (you can wear jeans and sneakers if you like), international (many cultures and languages) and friendly, down-to-earth environment; 

• Plenty of opportunities for your own initiatives and to make an impact; 

• Unlimited access to the online training courses of LinkedinLearning and GoodHabitz; 

• Good benefits, including travel allowance, a bicycle plan, discount on additional health insurance, work from home allowance and participation in our pension scheme (Basic-Fit pays 52% of the premium); 

• We work hybrid, this means 3 days at the office and 2 days remote by a fulltime workweek; 

• A beautiful gym (fitness equipment, spinning bikes, virtual group lessons) at our headquarters which you can use anytime. 

 Do you still have a question? Please contact Kerensa van der Lans our Corporate Recruiter via kerensa.vanderlans@basic-fit.com.