Senior Data Engineer

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Within the corporate Digital & Data department, our client aims at facilitating and driving our organization to leverage data.

At our 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 their 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 their 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))

Their Data Organization never stands still: No status-quo!

Accordingly, they challenge themselves and the organization continuously.

They work in quite flat hierarchy, with their team mates widespread in agile teams, and according to the principale of open source.

They are looking for a Data Engineer, who will primarily join one of their product Teams. It is an opportunity to mark with your signature their corporate Data organization, and contribute indirectly to better product to manage their Customer, as more qualitative data or service around data for their customer.

They 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 their users. To some extent, you’ll also have to interact with aspect related to governance tools (Glossary, Modeling, Lineage, or Data Quality…).

What you will NOT be doing

• You shall not act from an Ivory Technical Tower.

• You don’t not make decisions for the Business but rather advise them with careful logic or showing your reasoning.

• You shall not deliver technical solution, rather product features.

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

OUR OFFER
- Contractual flexibility, a permanent contract or a freelance assignment;
- Flexible working hours with the possibility of teleworking (1 to 3 days a week);
- A team of enthusiastic, professional and talented colleagues in a good mood and atmosphere;
- Personalized career coaching to support your development;
- A company with a pleasant, dynamic and innovative working atmosphere.