BI Data Engineer (Brussels)

Do you live in Portugal and would like to work for European institutions in Brussels? Then this opportinuty is for you!

We are hiring a BI Data Engineer for the EU Institution in Brussels, Belgium:

Nature of the tasks

• Create and maintain Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDW) and complex Business Intelligence Solutions (Data Lakes / Data Lakehouses).

• Design modern Business Intelligence (BI) architectures (e.g., data lakehouse) for cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments, ensuring compliance with security and data residency requirements.

• Gather and analyse business requirements specifically for data pipelines, storage, and reporting solutions.

• Design and implement modern Extract, Transform, Load/Extract, Load, Transform (ETL/ELT) processes and orchestration workflows, incorporating data contracts and schema evolution management.

• Implement and manage data virtualization layers to provide unified access to heterogeneous data sources while optimizing performance and security

• Design and implement data models (e.g., dimensional modeling) to support reporting and analytics, ensuring alignment with business requirements.

• Design and build reporting and analytics applications, creating dashboards, KPIs, and self- service BI tools that deliver actionable insights to business stakeholders.

• Design and optimize the physical database schema, including indexing, partitioning, and storage strategies, to balance performance, cost, and maintainability.

• Conduct ongoing database performance analysis, tuning queries, optimizing resource utilization, and ensuring SLAs for latency and throughput are met.

• Design and implement data quality frameworks and health monitoring processes that include data observability (lineage, freshness) and defined Service Level Agreements/Service Level Objectives (SLAs/SLOs).

• Define and execute test programs for BI solutions, including data validation, regression tests, contract tests, and automated pipelines integrated into CI/CD.

• Produce and maintain technical documentation (data dictionaries, lineage, design specifications, runbooks) to support transparency, governance, and audit readiness.

• Perform deployment and configuration of BI systems and platforms, applying infrastructure-as-code, version control, and environment management practices.

• Govern the BI semantic layer (KPIs, metrics catalog, naming conventions, row-level security) to ensure consistency and trusted insights.

• Manage access controls and data security within BI platforms in alignment with GDPR and internal data protection policies.

• Optimize cost and performance of BI platforms and warehouses (partitioning, caching, clustering, query optimization, resource scaling).

• Define and enforce data lineage and stewardship practices, ensuring transparency, auditability, and compliance.

• Enable self-service BI capabilities for business users through curated datasets, certified reports, and training/support.

Specific expertise and technologies

• Knowledge of enterprise data warehouse design and architecture, including dimensional modelling and star/snowflake schema design.

• Knowledge of data lake and lakehouse design patterns (e.g., Delta Lake, Apache Iceberg) to support large-scale analytics.

• Excellent knowledge of relational database systems applied to data warehouse.

• Knowledge of non-relational databases (e.g., MongoDB, Cassandra, Hadoop HBase) for handling unstructured and semi-structured data.

• Excellent knowledge of SQL.

• Knowledge of BI reporting and analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Qlik) for enterprise dashboards and self-service analytics.

• Knowledge of ETL and ELT tools (e.g., Informatica, Talend, dbt, Azure Data Factory) to manage enterprise data pipelines.

• Knowledge of modelling tools (e.g., ERwin, SAP PowerDesigner, ArchiMate for data flows) to design logical and physical data models.

• Knowledge of OLAP technologies (e.g., SSAS, Essbase) and data mining tools (e.g., SAS Enterprise Miner, RapidMiner).

• Knowledge of near real-time data ingestion and change data capture (CDC) technologies (e.g., Kafka, Debezium, GoldenGate).

• Knowledge of cloud BI architectures (e.g., Azure Synapse, Snowflake, AWS Redshift) to enable scalable analytics.

• Knowledge of data governance and cataloguing practices (e.g., Collibra, Alation, Azure Purview) to ensure trusted data assets.

• Knowledge of data observability practices (e.g., freshness, lineage, anomaly detection) to monitor and assure pipeline quality.

Certification and/or Standards

• Optional: One of the following or an equivalent certification:

Microsoft Data Analyst Associate,

Microsoft Azure Data Engineer Associate,

Amazon Certified Data Analytics Specialty.

Languages

English level C1

Location

Brussels, Belgium

Work mode

Hybrid (on-site at Brussels offices + remote)

What can you expect from us?

Mind-blowing workplace culture. You will be integrated in a professional, dynamic and collaborative team.

100% Remote opportunities

We want you to have the flexibility to work where you feel most comfortable and productive.

International Career

- You can expect professional growth and to be connect with the world.
- We are represented in Portugal, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Denmark.
- And with projects in many other countries: Netherlands, Luxembourg, Singapore and in the United States of America (and a lot more is coming…)

Extra Benefits & Perks

If you wish to work with us and you are outside European Union (good news…) we are a Tech Visa Company, We will help!

As a plus, we provide Health and Life Insurance.