Role Name: Senior Data Engineer
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Remote Work: Yes (Hybrid)
Start Date: 25/08/2026
End Date: 15/07/2027
Language Requirement: Dutch at CEFR C2 level
B. Main Responsibilities
Data Pipeline Engineering
- Design, build, optimise, and maintain scalable data pipelines.
- Develop reliable data-processing workflows for large data volumes.
- Integrate data from multiple source systems.
- Build reusable and maintainable data-processing components.
- Monitor and improve pipeline performance and reliability.
Microsoft Fabric Development
- Develop solutions using Microsoft Fabric.
- Work with Fabric pipelines, dataflows, and notebooks.
- Build and maintain modern analytics and data-processing workloads.
- Support scalable ingestion, transformation, and processing patterns.
- Optimise Fabric-based data solutions for performance and maintainability.
Data Integration
- Integrate relational databases, APIs, files, applications, and other data sources.
- Design robust ingestion and transformation processes.
- Develop reusable data-integration patterns.
- Validate and monitor source-to-target data flows.
- Ensure reliable and consistent data delivery.
Lakehouse & Data Warehouse Architecture
- Design and maintain cloud-based lakehouse and warehouse solutions.
- Implement medallion architecture using Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers.
- Support modern Azure-based data architectures.
- Contribute to domain-oriented and data-mesh concepts where applicable.
- Ensure scalability, maintainability, and reuse across data products.
Data Modelling
- Translate reporting and analytics needs into data models.
- Develop reliable and reusable analytical datasets.
- Apply dimensional-modelling principles.
- Work with Kimball-based modelling concepts.
- Optimise data structures for reporting and business intelligence.
Python & SQL Engineering
- Develop data-processing logic using Python.
- Use Python for ETL and data-engineering workloads.
- Develop and optimise SQL queries.
- Improve query performance.
- Support database-related analysis and troubleshooting.
Reporting & Analytics Support
- Support Power BI and analytics environments.
- Prepare trusted datasets for reporting.
- Work with reporting specialists to understand analytical requirements.
- Improve the reliability and consistency of reporting data.
- Support self-service and enterprise analytics needs.
Data Governance & Quality
- Contribute to data-governance standards.
- Implement data-quality controls.
- Support metadata and lineage practices.
- Identify and resolve data-quality issues.
- Promote consistent data-management practices across the platform.
CI/CD & DataOps
- Support CI/CD for data solutions.
- Use version control for data engineering artefacts.
- Automate deployments across environments.