Azure Data Engineering Lead – AI & Big Data

Anchormen; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

8% Holiday allowance

Annual training budget

Laptop/Mac + mobile

Pension scheme

Transportation allowance

Homework allowance

25 Holidays

Job summary

Anchormen is seeking a Lead Data Engineer (Azure) to spearhead technical delivery on data and AI projects for major Dutch clients. You will lead engineers and data scientists, focus on Azure Data Hub solutions, and own detailed designs and implementation.

You will stay hands-on, coding daily while guiding project direction, quality, and client communication. Dutch language skills are a plus, and you will collaborate across sales, PM, and marketing teams to maximize business value.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering.
• You already are a lead engineer with experience guiding projects and teams.
• You have hands-on OO programming experience (Python/Java).
• You have experience designing and building data applications and pipelines.
• Excellent coding skills with CI/CD and git workflows.
• You understand storage and processing options (file/SQL/NO-SQL; batch/streaming; stateful/stateless).
• Strong interpersonal skills and a customer-centric mindset.
• Excellent communication and presentation abilities for technical and business topics.
• Speaking Dutch is a nice-to-have.
• Experience with two or more Azure cloud technologies and eagerness to learn more.

Responsibilities

• Lead technical delivery with a team of engineers and data scientists.
• Design detailed designs and implement project solutions focusing on Azure and Data Hub.
• Act as the technical point of contact for progress, quality, and content.
• Contribute to coding daily within the team and guide best practices.
• Collaborate with architects, consultants, PMs, and sales to deliver business value.
• Present technical and business concepts to client stakeholders.
• Support marketing activities by preparing events, bootcamps, and tech talks.

Skills

Lead / project leadership

Python/Java

Data pipelines

Azure cloud

Communication

Dutch language

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Azure Databricks

Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2

Cosmos DB

Azure SQL

Azure Functions

Azure DevOps

Event Hub

Service Bus

Azure Kubernetes Service

Blob Storage

Job description

Anchormen is seeking a Lead Data Engineer (Azure) to spearhead technical delivery on data and AI projects for major Dutch clients. You will lead engineers and data scientists, focus on Azure Data Hub solutions, and own detailed designs and implementation.

You will stay hands-on, coding daily while guiding project direction, quality, and client communication. Dutch language skills are a plus, and you will collaborate across sales, PM, and marketing teams to maximize business value.