Data Engineer

About the Company

Join a high-growth data platform scale-up based in Ghent that is revolutionising how organisations collect, process, and activate data. Our platform enables companies to build modern data architectures, unlock analytics, and accelerate AI adoption—without the complexity or high cost of legacy tools.

We are backed by leading investors, scaling rapidly across Europe, and building a world-class engineering culture focused on innovation, performance, and automation.

Role Overview

As a Data Engineer, you will play a key role in building and optimising the core data platform. You will design scalable data pipelines, improve infrastructure, and ensure high-quality data for product, analytics, and customer use cases. You’ll work with modern cloud technology and help shape the architecture in a fast-moving, product-led environment.

This role also involves collaborating with Dutch-speaking customers and internal stakeholders, so strong communication in Dutch is essential.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain robust ETL/ELT data pipelines.
• Develop and optimise data models, data lakes, and data warehouses.
• Integrate data from various internal and external sources.
• Improve platform performance, scalability and reliability.
• Implement best practices for data governance and security.
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Customer teams.
• Contribute to architectural decisions in a scale-up environment.
• Monitor, troubleshoot and continuously improve the platform.
• Write clear documentation and reusable processes.

Required Skills & Experience

• Fluent Dutch (spoken & written) and strong English.
• 3+ years of experience as a Data Engineer or similar.
• Strong knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
• Experience with Python or Scala for data processing.
• Hands-on experience with cloud data platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Experience with ETL/ELT tools and orchestration (Airflow, DBT, Data Factory, etc).
• Understanding of data warehousing and data modelling.
• Experience with large-scale or real-time data.
• Comfortable working in an agile, fast-paced environment.

Nice to Have

• Experience with Azure Synapse, Databricks, Snowflake or BigQuery.
• Knowledge of Kafka, Spark or streaming technologies.
• Exposure to API integrations or SaaS products.
• Experience in a start-up/scale-up environment.
• Familiarity with CI/CD and modern DevOps tooling.

Soft Skills

• Strong communicator with Dutch-speaking stakeholders.
• Proactive, ownership-minded, and solution-driven.
• Able to work both independently and in a collaborative team.
• Passion for modern data technologies and continuous improvement.

What We Offer

• Competitive salary with bonus and benefits.
• Hybrid and flexible working (Ghent).
• Work with cutting-edge data and cloud technologies.
• Direct impact on a fast-scaling data platform used across Europe.
• Rapid career growth and technical autonomy.
• Inclusive, innovative, and engineering-led culture.
• Training, certifications and personal development budget.

Ready to help build the next-generation data platform in Belgium?

Apply now and join a leading scale-up shaping the future of data engineering!

Let me know if you want this tailored more toward junior/senior, more technical or more commercial, or linked to a specific tech stack (Azure, AWS, Databricks, etc.).