Overview
Data Engineer / Technical Lead acting as technical authority within data teams, ensuring standards, quality, and best practices. Leads code reviews, coaching, and collaboration with architects. Designs and optimises Azure-based data pipelines (Synapse, ADF, Databricks, PySpark, SQL), supports data modelling, improves performance, governance, and delivery excellence in complex environments.
Job Responsibilities
- Serve as the technical authority for Data Engineers within a data team
- Conduct pulls request validations, peer reviews, and ensure full compliance with data engineering standards
- Provide coaching and guidance to junior Data Engineers
- Contribute to the continuous improvement and maturity of data engineering practices within the organisation
- Act as the single point of contact between Data Platform Architects and engineering teams
- Translate architectural guidelines into actionable technical instructions for engineering teams
- Recommend alternative technical solutions depending on the targeted DWH layer (ingestion, transformation, consumption...)
- Participate in the definition, evolution, and continuous improvement of the data platform and the data engineering standards
- Provide structured feedback from field experience to refine practices and tooling
- Contribute to performance optimisation, data quality, and operational reliability
Must Have Skills
- Demonstrate expert proficiency in Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory (ADF), Mapping Data Flow (MDF), Databricks, PySpark, SQL
- Ability to design, develop, and optimise data pipelines within the Azure ecosystem
- Ability to support the data modeler to ensure robust, scalable, and well-modelled data structures, with strong expertise in dimensional modelling (star schema, DWH concepts).
- Experience using Power BI and experience with semantic data modelling (preferred).
- Natural leadership and ability to guide multiple teams.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, adapted to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Pedagogical attitude with the ability to support learning and development.
- Fluent in English and French.
- Good level of Dutch (preferred).
Nice to have
- Analytical mindset, structured approach, and high attention to detail.
- High level of autonomy.
- Demonstrate technical decision-making capabilities.
Pay: €2.329,77 - €5.496,09 per month
Work Location: In person
