Senior Data Engineer - Build Scalable Pipelines & Insights

itenium; Antwerpen; On-site; EUR 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

itenium is seeking a Data Engineer in Antwerp, Belgium. This role involves building and maintaining scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and optimizing data lakes and warehouses. Candidates should have at least 5 years in data engineering with strong SQL and Python skills, experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP, and be fluent in Dutch. Contributing to data insights and collaborating with teams to automate workflows is key to this position.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years in data engineering or a related role, delivering production-grade solutions.
• Strong SQL and Python for transformation, orchestration, and automation.
• Hands-on with Azure/AWS/GCP and tools like ADF, Databricks, Spark or Kafka.
• Experience with ADLS/Snowflake/BigQuery and solid data modeling fundamentals.
• Fluent Dutch speaker, strong English, comfortable aligning with stakeholders and owning outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain scalable, efficient ETL/ELT pipelines.
• Optimise data lakes and data warehouses for quality and performance.
• Design robust data models that support analytics and AI applications.
• Collaborate with analysts, data scientists and business stakeholders.
• Automate data workflows and contribute to CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Data Engineering

SQL

Python

ETL/ELT

Cloud technologies

Data modeling

Fluent Dutch

English

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

ADF

Databricks

Spark

Kafka

ADLS

Snowflake

BigQuery

Job description

itenium is seeking a Data Engineer in Antwerp, Belgium. This role involves building and maintaining scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and optimizing data lakes and warehouses. Candidates should have at least 5 years in data engineering with strong SQL and Python skills, experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP, and be fluent in Dutch. Contributing to data insights and collaborating with teams to automate workflows is key to this position.