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Senior Databricks Data Engineer

Moore Brussel; Moore Antwerpen; Moore GentLocation unclear
Senior · full-time, permanent · ANA - MS - MICROSOFT
POSTED 16 OCT
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Your mission

You are a Databricks Champion, or you have the ambition to become one. You will be surrounded by an exceptional peer groupwith deep experience in Analytics Engineering within the Microsoft & Databricks tech stack, so you will always have colleagues to spar with on the (technical) decisions you make.

Your responsibilities

As a Senior Databricks Data Engineer, you work hands-on to deliver data platforms that are ready for analytics and AI, and you own them from first requirement to production. Every mission we embark on will be a collaboration with the customer, where we translate their ambitions into concrete deliverables.

  • Design, build and maintain ETL pipelines and data models on Databricks, with Spark and Delta Lake
  • Implement streaming and Change Data Capture with Lakeflow, including Declarative Pipelines
  • Establish governance and access control in Unity Catalog
  • Bring AI into the platform with Databricks Genie and Genie Spaces
  • Translate customer questions into technical solutions, shape the solution design (data platform strategies and architectures) and implement it in Databricks
  • Coach colleagues and client teams, and review their work

Your profile

  • You have coached colleagues before, and you enjoy it
  • 4+ years of experience as a data engineer or in BI, of which 2+ years in the cloud, preferably Azure, with ETL jobs you designed, built and maintained yourself
  • Strong data modelling and coding (mostly SQL, Python, PySpark) skills
  • Hands-on experience with Databricks and the open-source technology underneath: Spark, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, streaming and CDC
  • You use AI hands-on in your own engineering work and are keen to do more with it
  • Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate or Professional is a plus, or you are open to obtaining it
  • A team player and problem solver who turns a customer question into a design, switches easily between projects and explains technical choices to any stakeholder
  • Enthusiastic about being part of a growing team & industry
  • You already reside in Belgium
  • You are fluent in English, and either Dutch or French

Why us?

  • A market-leading compensation package, complemented by a wide range of extra-legal benefits and flexible options through our cafeteria plan and mobility budget
  • Serious investment in your training and personal development, with knowledge sharing days where we learn and grow together
  • Up-to-date technology: you always work on the latest releases, with access to a broad set of AI tools, from Claude to our own agentic engineering harness built around it, where our AI agent Ralph works alongside you as a colleague in every development
  • Room for initiative: entrepreneurship is encouraged
  • Plenty of team buildings and events together
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