Are you passionate about building scalable data platforms and turning complex data landscapes into reliable business assets? ?

We are looking for a Senior Data Engineer / Data Engineering Lead to play a key role in shaping a modern data ecosystem and driving data engineering excellence within a large-scale enterprise environment.

? Your Mission

As a Senior Data Engineer, you'll be at the heart of a growing data platform, ensuring high-quality, trusted, and scalable data solutions that empower analytics, reporting, and data-driven decision-making.

You will:

✅ Design, develop and maintain robust data pipelines and integrations

✅ Build and optimize Data Lakes, Data Warehouses and Data Marts

✅ Develop scalable ETL/ELT solutions and incremental loading strategies

✅ Improve data quality, monitoring, observability and operational reliability

✅ Collaborate with architects, analysts, developers and business stakeholders

✅ Drive engineering standards, best practices and automation

✅ Coach and mentor team members on modern data engineering principles

✅ Support analytics, BI and data science teams with trusted datasets

?️ Your Technical Toolkit

Must-have skills:

- Strong SQL expertise (5+ years)
- Strong Python development experience (5+ years)
- Azure and/or AWS Data Platforms
- Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Data Factory or similar cloud data platforms
- Spark,



Hive or other Big Data technologies
- ETL/ELT development and orchestration
- Data pipeline design and optimization
- Data quality management and monitoring
- CI/CD and DevOps practices for data platforms
- Agile delivery experience

Nice to have:

⭐ Databricks

⭐ Power BI

⭐ Data Vault & Dimensional Modelling (Star Schema)

⭐ Machine Learning platform support

⭐ Data Governance & Data Contracts

? What We're Looking For

- 5+ years of experience as a Data Engineer
- Experience working in complex enterprise environments
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management capabilities
- Ability to translate business needs into scalable technical solutions
- Coaching and mentoring mindset
- Autonomous, structured and results-driven professional

? Languages

- English required
- Dutch and/or French are a strong plus

? Why This Opportunity?

✔ Work on modern cloud-based data platforms

✔ High-impact role with visibility across multiple business domains

✔ Opportunity to shape engineering standards and data strategy

✔ Mix of hands-on engineering and technical leadership

✔ Long-term project within a mature Agile environment

? Interested? Reach out directly or send your CV to discuss the opportunity in more detail.

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