Data Lab-Data Engineer

We currently have a vacancy for an Data Lab-Data Engineer fluent in English, to offer his/her services as an expert who will be based in Brussels, Belgium. The work will be carried out either in the company’s premises or on site at customer premises. In the context of the first assignment, the successful candidate will be integrated in the engineering team that will closely cooperate with a major client’s IT team on site.

Your tasks:

• Design and implement the data engineering solutions;
• Design and implement data modelling, interfaces definition, technical and functional documentation;
• Design, analyse, and implement Business Intelligence components such as Data Warehouses, Data Lakes, Data Marts, ETLs, Reporting Tools, Analytics, Data Mining Tools;
• Design, create, test and maintain data pipelines to support analytics projects;
• Excellent Python and/or R Development skills (min 8 years);

• Good experience working on data-driven projects;
• Design and implement data cleansing, data preparation or other type’s data processing solutions using the available tools e.g. SAS, Oracle or other tools;
• Write code, debug, test and improve;
• Work in an agile/iterative way e.g. participate in drafting the backlog, user stories, definition of the sprints;
• Follow up, coordinate and facilitate all data manipulation activities and initiatives;
• Collect business requirements and interact with the business users;
• Provide support and training on data manipulation and processing to the different stakeholders;
• Draft and/or review technical requirements for a data analytics environment, both in terms of hardware and software and creation of functional architecture for a data analytics environment;
• Experience in effort estimation required for execution of the requested activities;
• Draft progress and technical reports;
• Follow-up on IT delivery, including the activities of external contractors;
• Signal risks and propose measures to mitigate those risks;
• Coordinate the stakeholders e.g. business users, infrastructure team.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of relevant studies and a minimum of 13 years of IT professional experience;
• Minimum 3 years of experience with Python and R;
• Minimum 8 years of cumulative experience with big data processing in following languages Python and/or R (e.g. 3 years with Python, and 5 years with R);
• A background in statistics and experience with the SAS statistical functions are considered to be an asset;
• Minimum 3 years of experience with the usage of the Python, R libraries dedicated for the data manipulation (e.g. NumPy, pandas, scikit-learn, Matplotlib) and with the Anaconda distribution of Python, R;
• Expert knowledge of database programming & data modelling and of Oracle database programming and administration supported by a minimum experience of 5 years in this area;
• SAS programming language knowledge and experience in this area or any SAS certification are considered an asset;
• Minimum 3 years of experience with distributed data stores (Redis, Hadoop, Elasticsearch, Kafka);
• Expert knowledge on Data Warehousing techniques, designs and implementation supported by a minimum experience of 5 years in this area. A Data Warehousing and Data Base programming certification shall be considered an asset;
• Expert knowledge on identifying performance bottlenecks and performance tuning when working with big data, in the database and the non-database layer, , supported by a minimum experience of 5 years in this area;
• Experience in the optimization and tuning of the visualisation tools (SAS VA, Tableau) and code for better performance will be considered as additional asset;
• Minimum 5 years of experience in implementing projects in an agile way;
• Minimum 3 years of experience in estimating the hardware requirements needed to ensure the performance requirements of big data project. In estimating the hardware requirements needed to ensure the performance requirements of big data projects. In requirements from the business users, preparing test data and executing test cases interacting with the business users and in working on projects involving a large number of stakeholders;
• Ability to draft functional, technical documents and reports and to work fluently in English is mandatory;
• Knowledge and experience with STATA and experience with Atlassian tools e.g. Jira, Confluence, BitBucket is considered to be an asset;
• Experience with Machine and Deep Learning in Python, R and with non-relational databases are considered an asset
• Knowledge and experience with the SAS tools are considered an asset e.g. SAS Enterprise Guide, SAS Visual Analytics, SAS Data Integration Studio supported by a minimum of 5 years’ experience in at least 3 SAS tools e.g. SAS Viya, SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS Visual Analytics;
• Excellent command of English.

Benefits

If you are seeking a career in an exciting and dynamic company, where you will offer your services as part of a team of a major European Institution, operating in an international, multilingual and multicultural environment where you can expect real chances to make a difference, please send us your detailed CV in English, quoting reference: (9896/08/2021)

We offer a competitive remuneration (either on contract basis or remuneration with full benefits package), based on qualifications and experience. All applications will be treated as confidential.

EUROPEAN DYNAMICS (www.eurodyn.com)is a leading Software, Information and Communication Technologies company, operating internationally (Athens, Brussels, Luxembourg, Copenhagen, Stockholm, London, Nicosia, Hong-Kong, Valetta, etc). The company employs over 600 engineers, IT experts and consultants (around 3% PhD, 36% MSc and 53% BSc or equivalent). We design and develop software applications using state-of-the-art technology. The group generates annual revenues in the range of EURO 40 million, with an EBITDA in the range of 20%. The value of our contract portfolio exceeds EURO 250 million. EUROPEAN DYNAMICS is a renowned supplier of IT services to government institutions, multinational corporations, public administrations and multinational companies, research and academic institutes.

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