Senior Database Engineer - European Agency

Altia; Brussel; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

High-impact project

Collaborative work environment

Career Plan

Training Plan

Flexible Remuneration

Job summary

Altia is seeking a Senior Database Engineer to lead the design and maintenance of enterprise Data Warehouse and relational databases. You will architect scalable data solutions for European institutions, focusing on Oracle, PL/SQL and data modelling. You will drive performance, data integrity and governance across large environments.

You'll collaborate with international teams, mentor juniors and ensure robust architecture and scalable data lifecycles within complex projects.

Qualifications

• Experience designing, optimising and maintaining enterprise data environments.
• Strong knowledge of relational databases and data modelling.
• Proficiency with Oracle and PL/SQL.

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve Data Warehouse architectures for large-scale environments.
• Develop and optimise Oracle databases, ensuring high performance and integrity.
• Create advanced PL/SQL routines and data processing components.
• Design logical/physical data models to align with business requirements.
• Analyse and improve query performance and data structures.
• Provide technical guidance across the data lifecycle.

Skills

Oracle

PL/SQL

Data Warehouse

Data modelling

SQL

Performance tuning

Technical leadership

Enterprise architecture

Tools

Enterprise Architect

MongoDB

Cassandra

Job description

Role

We are looking for a Senior Database Engineer specialised in Data Warehouse architecture, relational database design, Oracle, advanced PL/SQL, and data modelling, with strong experience in designing, optimising, and maintaining complex enterprise data environments

Role

We are looking for a Senior Database Engineer specialised in Data Warehouse architecture, relational database design, Oracle, advanced PL/SQL, and data modelling, with strong experience in designing, optimising, and maintaining complex enterprise data environments

Who We Are

Altia is a high-value digital transformation services company that has undertaken, changed, and reformulated international projects for nearly a thousand clients, leaders in their sectors, who have understood that their businesses can be revolutionized through digitalization. Over its 30 years of experience, it has proven to be a robust company with a future, a capacity for innovation, and adaptability.

The Project

You will contribute to the design, architecture, optimisation, and maintenance of enterprise Data Warehouse and complex relational database environments within an international project supporting European institutions and agencies.

• Data Warehouse Architecture: Design and evolve scalable Data Warehouse architectures and enterprise data storage solutions, ensuring robustness, maintainability, and long-term scalability.
• Database Engineering: Design, develop, optimise, and maintain complex Oracle databases, ensuring high performance, availability, and data integrity.
• Advanced SQL Procedural Development: Develop sophisticated PL/SQL routines, including advanced cursors, dynamic triggers, exception handling, stored procedures, functions, and other database programming components.
• Data Modelling: Design and maintain logical and physical data models, using Enterprise Architect to ensure consistency between business requirements and technical database structures.
• Performance & Optimisation: Analyse and optimise database performance, query execution, data structures, and processing routines across large-scale enterprise environments.
• Technical Leadership: Provide technical guidance on the corporate data layer, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to ensure consistent architecture, scalability, and quality throughout the data lifecycle.

Stack

• Database & SQL: Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, advanced cursors, dynamic triggers, exception handling, stored procedures and functions.
• Data Architecture: Data Warehouse, relational databases, enterprise data architecture, logical and physical data modelling.
• Data Modelling Tools: Enterprise Architect.
• Performance & Optimisation: Query optimisation, database performance tuning, scalability, data integrity and complex data processing.
• NoSQL & ETL: MongoDB, Cassandra, SAS 9.4.
• Collaboration: Distributed and remote working environments, technical coordination and multidisciplinary teams.

What we offer

• High-impact project
• Collaborative work environment
• Career Plan
• Training Plan
• Flexible Remuneration

The present job offer is drafted taking into account impartiality and non-discrimination on the grounds of gender, race, ideology, or any other reason. Especially, it takes into account the respect for the current regulations regarding gender equality between women and men (Royal Decree-Law 6/2019).