DBT Analytics Engineer

About us
GBT Solutions is a Portuguese technology company founded in 2018, part of the HFA Group, which was established in 1995. With a focus on delivering cutting-edge solutions across various industries, we foster a diverse and inclusive work environment and take pride in our commitment to excellence and innovation. Position: Senior Data Scientist

Location:
Brussels, Belgium (near site mod, so each consultant needs to live within 2 hours of Brussels)

Salary:
CDI
- 64.000€ to 75.000€ gross B2B
- 475€ to 575€/day DBT Analytics Engineer

Location:
Brussels, Belgium (Hybrid) We are looking for a DBT Analytics Engineer to join a high-impact data transformation initiative within an international environment. The successful candidate will play a key role in designing and optimizing modern analytics transformation pipelines, ensuring data quality, scalability, and performance across enterprise-grade data platforms.

Key Responsibilities
• Design and develop transformation pipelines for scalable and reliable data workflows.
• Optimize the execution performance of dbt projects.
• Design, implement, and document data quality controls and validation tests within the dbt ecosystem.
• Set up automated regression testing and validation procedures for transformation outputs.
• Promote and share best practices for managing and evolving dbt projects.
• Translate business requirements into scalable and maintainable transformation pipelines.
• Produce technical documentation covering transformation logic, operational procedures, and migration decisions.
• Collaborate with data engineers, analysts, business stakeholders, and platform teams in an international environment. Required Skills
• Proven hands-on experience with dbt (preferably dbt Core) in production environments.
• Strong experience in Analytics Engineering and modern data modelling methodologies.
• Expertise in SQL, including complex transformations, incremental processing, and performance optimization.
• Experience developing PySpark transformation scripts for large-scale data processing.
• Solid understanding of Apache Spark, partitioning strategies, file layout optimization, and performance tuning.
• Experience working with Apache Iceberg tables and related concepts such as schema evolution, partition evolution, snapshot management, and time travel.
• Strong knowledge of data validation, reconciliation, and testing approaches.
• Experience with Git-based workflows, code reviews, release management, and CI/CD practices.
• Experience with orchestration and scheduling tools, particularly Dagster and Spark-based workloads.
• Excellent communication and documentation skills. Nice to Have
• Experience migrating legacy ETL processes from SAS to modern dbt and PySpark-based solutions.
• Experience working in multicultural and international environments. Equal opportunity: GBT Solutions is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. We do not discriminate based on age, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender, disability, or any factor other than merit. By responding to this opportunity, I confirm that the data I provide constitutes personal data and that I have been informed, through the Privacy Policy, about how it is processed and about my rights. GBT Solutions does not request special categories of personal data; should I include any such data, I do so voluntarily and expressly consent to its processing, and I may omit it. GBT Solutions may retain my profile and present it to client companies for suitable opportunities, based on its legitimate interest. I may object to this at any time by contacting rgpd@gbtsolutions.pt.