Freelance klantspecifiek TRIPWIRE

We are looking for a freelance medior Data Engineer for a client.

Practical

Work location Brussels - 2 days/week on-site, 3 days/week remote (after a training period)

Full-time work regime

Period: 05-10-2026 – 31-12-2027 (extendable)

Role

Within the corporate Digital & Data department, the client aims to facilitate and drive the organization to optimize data usage. Data is considered a key asset to achieve strategic ambitions, innovation and transformation themes, objectives, and regulatory requirements. The Data organization consists of Business Product Teams, Backbone/Platform Teams, and a Transversal Competencies Team, all organized according to Agile principles (Spotify model).

We are looking for a Data Engineer Service who will mainly join one of the Product Teams. It is an opportunity to make your mark on the corporate Data organization and indirectly contribute to a better product for our clients, with higher quality data or data-related services.

The consultant is responsible for:

• Setting up data pipelines, efficient storage structures, and powerful materialized views in various analytical technologies

• Establishing data exchange endpoints for users

• Interacting with governance tools (Glossary, Modeling, Lineage, Data Quality, ...)

• Using SQL Server

• Implementing data pipelines with Azure services such as Azure Databricks, and to a lesser 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

• Being open to learning new technologies (in addition to the above, also Redis, RabbitMQ, Neo4j, or Apache Arrow, ...)

• Interacting with business analysts and stakeholders to refine requirements and propose reusable, integrated solutions

• Contributing to comprehensive testing of the solution, to strengthen the devops principles within the team

• Contributing to writing and structuring documentation

Required experience and skills

• Extensive hands-on experience (preferably 3 to 5 years) in at least 2 of the above 4 categories (SQL Server, Azure services, Python/Databricks, new technologies)

• Can challenge counterparts with rational thinking and a down-to-earth, no-nonsense approach

• Always looks at data in a transversal way (no silos), across the entire enterprise, to maximize coherence, reuse, and adoption

• Track record of achieving results through continuous improvement

• Customer-oriented and iterative thinking

• Analytical approach to problem-solving

• Team player with respect, openness, courage, challenge, and innovation, one team/voice for the customer

• Product-oriented mindset, enjoys sharing ideas with the team (or other teams)

• Language skills: fluent English (must have) and fluent German/French or Dutch

• Good communication skills

Additional selection criteria (mandatory when submitting)

• Experience with Azure (No / Limited / Moderate / Extensive experience)

• Experience with Databricks (No / Limited / Moderate / Extensive experience)