Senior Analytics Engineer

AlleyCorp; Gent; Sur place; EUR 85 000 - 110 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Lighthouse, a data company, is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer in Belgium (Ghent) with hybrid work. You will build scalable data products, own end-to-end data delivery, and apply AI to accelerate development and quality checks.

This role emphasizes production data modeling, cost-aware data processing, and collaboration across Product, Data Science, and Engineering teams. You will work with SQL, dbt, Python, and BigQuery, and contribute to an evolving on-call rotation for enterprise data

Qualifications

• Expert-level SQL and production dbt experience, including incremental models and testing.
• Strong data-modeling skills with experience handling large datasets.

Responsabilités

• Design, build, and improve production data models and products using SQL, dbt, Python, and BigQuery.

Connaissances

SQL

dbt

Data modeling

Python

BigQuery

Stakeholder management

English communication

AI in data workflows

Outils

dbt

BigQuery

Looker

Airflow

Terraform

Claude

Description du poste

Job Details

• Engineering
• Belgium - Ghent
• Full-Time/Hybrid

What you will do

We’re looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to help us build reliable, scalable data products for enterprise customers and internal teams. This is a hands‑on role with a strong focus on SQL, dbt, data modeling, data‑product development, and practical AI integration—not traditional dashboarding alone.

You’ll own work from a stakeholder question through analysis, modeling, quality assurance, and delivery. You’ll also help strengthen how the team works with dbt and contribute to our shift toward scalable data delivery. You will take on direct customer‑facing responsibilities, with support from the team as you build that experience.

Where you will have impact

• Design, build, and improve reliable production data models and products using SQL, dbt, Python, and BigQuery.
• Turn business and customer questions into scalable solutions, owning delivery from scoping and analysis through modeling, testing, documentation, QA, and actionable insights.
• Diagnose and improve data quality, query performance, and cost across large, complex datasets.
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Engineering, Commercial, and Account Management to define requirements, explain trade‑offs, and manage expectations on feasibility and timelines.
• Use AI to accelerate development, analysis, scoping, and documentation, and help explore AI‑powered capabilities such as automated quality checks and agentic customer or sales tooling.
• Share your dbt expertise, strengthen team development practices, contribute to enterprise and internal initiatives, and eventually join the evolving on‑call rotation for enterprise data products.

About our team

Lighthouse is a data company. The heart of all our products is data. It enables hotels to make the right decisions and fuel our analytical solutions. We process billions of data points and +100 TB of data daily, containing hotels’ pricing information, search data, bookings, and more, using modern technologies.

The data solutions team is part of our Enterprise vertical within engineering. The team was originally formed from various firms and acquisitions, now integrated into two product areas: Data solutions and Distribution. It focuses on data we have, leveraging it in new ways to support our Enterprise customers. We build and iterate on a small number of customers served by a targeted product roadmap.

What's in it for you?

• Flexible time off: Autonomy to manage your work‑life balance.
• Career development: Workshops, frameworks, and trainings to maximize your professional potential.
• Impactful work: Shape products relied on by 85,000+ users worldwide.
• Mobility options: Mobility budget or company car (based on your job category).
• Net allowance: Support for home office related expenses.
• Vouchers: Lunch vouchers & Eco vouchers.
• Comprehensive health insurance: Extensive coverage for you and your dependents.
• Pension funding: Group insurance to secure your future.
• Referral bonuses: Earn rewards for bringing in new talent.

Who you are

• Expert‑level SQL and hands‑on, production‑level dbt experience, including incremental models, testing, configuration, and performance tuning.
• A track record of owning reliable data models or products in production, with strong data‑modeling skills and experience working with large, complex datasets.
• Strong data‑warehouse fluency with BigQuery or an equivalent platform, including the ability to diagnose query cost and performance issues.
• Experience using Python for data analysis or data‑product development, alongside a practical approach to testing, documentation, data quality, governance, and correctness.
• Strong stakeholder‑management skills and the judgment to explain technical decisions, manage trade‑offs, and move ambiguous work forward.
• A direct, pragmatic, and collaborative working style, with concrete examples of using AI to improve how you work independently and with a distributed team.
• Excellent communication skills in both written and spoken English.

We welcome

• Experience with client‑facing products, external customers, or complex internal stakeholders in a SaaS or consultancy environment.
• Familiarity with tools and practices such as BigQuery, Airflow, Looker or other visualization platforms, cloud analytics platforms, and Agile ways of working.
• Experience using AI in recurring workflows, agent‑based processes, or customer‑facing data products.
• Knowledge of travel, hospitality, or short‑term‑rental data, or experience mentoring colleagues and improving analytics‑engineering practices.

Technologies you will work with

SQL (Google’s BigQuery), Python, GCP, Looker/, Tableau, Terraform, Airflow, Claude.

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging

Thank you for considering a career with Lighthouse. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workforce that values equal opportunity for all. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, regardless of age, gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, and disability. Our commitment to equality is part of our culture. If you require reasonable accommodation at any point during the application or interview process, please notify your recruiter.

Not ticking every box? No problem! We value diverse backgrounds and unique skill sets, and we encourage individuals from all walks of life to apply. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve described, but you’re passionate about what we do and a quick learner, we’d love to hear from you!