afarax - Data Engineer

afarax is looking for a freelance Data Engineer. We need you!

The project
Our client in the utilities sector is looking for a Data Engineer to join their team.

We are looking for a Data Engineer, who will primarily join one of their product Teams. It is an opportunity to mark with your signature our corporate Data organization, and contribute indirectly to better product to manage our Customer, as more qualitative data or service around data for their customer.

We are looking for Data Engineers able to create data pipelines, efficient Storage structures, powerful materialized views in different analytical technologies, but also data exchange endpoints at destination of their users. To some extent, you'll also have to interact with aspect related to governance tools (Glossary, Modeling, Lineage, or Data Quality ).

Is this you?

• At least 3 years' experience in a similar role
• Usage of the SQL server
• Implementing data pipelines using Azure services such as Azure Databricks, but also to some extent Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Azure Stream/log Analytics, and Azure DevOps
• Implementing data pipelines or data enrichments with Python in a Databricks environment
• Language skills: fluent in English (must have) AND fluent in German/French or Dutch (soft requirement)
• Open to learn and jump on new technologies (on the ones listed above, or also Redis, RabbitMQ, Neo4j, or Apache Arrow, )
• Able and willing to interact with business analysts and stakeholders to refine some requirements and to present reusable and integrated solution
• Able and willing to contribute to extensive testing of the solution, as the reinforcement of DevOps principles within the team.
• Able and willing to contribute to the writing and structuration of documentation
• Experience with PowerBI
• Able to challenge your interlocutors by leveraging your rational thinking, and no non-sense philosophy.
• Continuously look at data in a transversal way (no siloes), across the entire Enterprise, to maximize coherence, reuse and adoption.
• Track record of driving results through continuous improvement
• Customer-oriented
• Thinking Iterative
• Analytical approach to problem-solving and a track record of driving results through continuous improvement
• Team player breathing respect, open-mind, dare, challenge, innovation and one team/voice for the Customer
• Product-oriented mindset
• Enjoy sharing ideas with the team (or with other teams) and contribute to the product success
• Good communication skills

How afarax supports you?

• You benefit from our extensive network
• You will have access to projects that fit your expertise
• We help and support you throughout your project
• We offer the possibility to build a valuable and lasting partnership