Role: Senior Data Engineer – Financial Services
Location: Ghent, Belgium (1 day per week onsite, 4 days remote)
Contract: 12-Month Freelance Contract (Extension Likely)
Rate: To be discussed competitive market rate
Our client, a well-established organisation within the financial services sector, is looking to engage an experienced Senior Data Engineer to support a number of key data initiatives across the business. This is an excellent opportunity to join a high-performing team working on modernising data platforms, improving data quality, and enabling better business decision-making through scalable data solutions.
The successful consultant will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust data pipelines and data infrastructure while working closely with business stakeholders, analysts, and engineering teams.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimise scalable ETL/ELT pipelines.
- Develop and maintain data models, integrations, and workflows across multiple systems.
- Work closely with business and technical teams to understand data requirements and deliver solutions.
- Ensure data quality, reliability, and governance standards are maintained.
- Support the ongoing development and enhancement of the organisation's cloud-based data platform.
- Contribute to best practices around automation, monitoring, and performance optimisation.
Required Experience
- Proven experience working as a Senior Data Engineer within complex enterprise environments.
- Strong SQL development and data modelling expertise.
- Hands-on experience with Python for data engineering and automation.
- Experience building and maintaining cloud-based data platforms (Azure preferred).
- Knowledge of modern data warehousing and data lake architectures.
- Experience working with large-scale datasets and performance optimisation.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Desirable Skills
- Experience within financial services, banking, insurance, or regulated environments.
- Exposure to Azure Data Factory, Databricks, Synapse Analytics, or similar technologies.
- Familiarity with CI/CD processes and Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with real-time or streaming data solutions.
Contract Details
- Initial 12-month contract.
- Strong likelihood of extension.
- Hybrid working model with 1 day per week onsite in Ghent and the remainder remote.
- Competitive daily rate available.
- Immediate interviews available for suitable candidates.