Data Engineer - Microsoft Fabric
Brussels-Capital
Digital - Data
Secondary, Bachelor, Master
Work experience: 5-7
Reference number: 91903
Our client is modernising its entire data landscape and moving a legacy data platform into the Microsoft Azure ecosystem. As part of this transition, a new BI and analytics stack is being built using Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, and a cloud-native architecture.
We’re looking for an experienced Data Engineer who enjoys working with modern tooling, designing clean BI-oriented data models, and delivering reliable data pipelines at scale.
What You’ll Do
- Build and maintain ETL/ELT pipelines in Microsoft Fabric using Dataflows Gen2, PySpark Notebooks, and Pipelines.
- Design BI-ready data models following Kimball principles: star schema, snowflake, SCD, fact tables, dimensions, aggregates.
- Develop high-quality Data Warehouse components that deliver accurate, performant, and auditable data.
- Optimise and monitor data flows, ensuring stability, performance, logging, and traceability.
- Connect to diverse data sources such as Oracle, SQL Server, XML and flat files, and tune extraction logic.
- Automate deployments using Azure DevOps or GitHub Actions and help embed CI/CD practices in the team.
- Apply established technical standards for naming, governance, security, monitoring, and documentation.
- Work closely with data analysts, BI developers, and platform engineers to ensure end-to-end consistency across the ecosystem.
- Document pipelines, transformations and modelling decisions so the platform remains transparent and maintainable.
What are we looking for?
- A degree in Computer Science (or equivalent experience).
- 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, including 3+ years hands-on with Fabric on Azure Cloud.
- Strong SQL and hands-on experience with Oracle and SQL Server (extraction, optimisation, performance tuning).
- Practical experience with PySpark and distributed processing.
- Solid understanding of Data Warehouse concepts and BI modelling using Kimball.
- Experience with ETL/ELT sequencing, monitoring, and quality control.
- Knowledge of CI/CD (Azure DevOps or GitHub) and cloud-native security & governance.
- Notions of DAX and familiarity with Power BI integration.
- Ability to work in a structured way, document processes clearly, and collaborate across teams.
- Fluent in French or Dutch with passive understanding of the other.
Nice to have
- Experience with Azure Synapse.
- Knowledge of Sparx Enterprise Architect.
- Knowledge of Informatica PowerCenter or willingness to learn it.
What do we offer?
Location: Brussels (hybrid)
Contract: Freelance or Permanent
Start date: 19/02/2026
End date: 30/09/2026
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