Senior Data & AI Engineer (Technical Lead)
Brussels-Capital
Digital - Data
Work experience: 5-7
Reference number: 92580

You will act as a Senior Data & AI Engineer and technical lead within a multidisciplinary team delivering AI solutions that create tangible business value. The focus is on building simple, secure, scalable, and cost-effective AI applications, leveraging cloud-native services, reusable architectures, and low-code where appropriate.

You take ownership of the technical design, implementation, and operationalization of AI solutions. You define standards, guide architectural choices, and coach other engineers while remaining hands-on in development. You balance innovation with pragmatism, ensuring solutions are robust, reusable, and aligned with enterprise standards.

What you’ll do

  • You translate business use cases into clear AI solution architectures, prioritizing simplicity, security, standardization, and reuse.
  • You design, build, and coordinate end-to-end AI solutions using Azure AI Services, Databricks, and Power Platform.
  • You act as technical lead, coordinating implementation and coaching team members on architecture and development practices.
  • You define and maintain reference architectures, coding standards, and reusable infrastructure modules.
  • You deploy and maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure as Code, ensuring consistency and scalability.
  • You contribute to business case development, estimating technical costs for development, infrastructure, and maintenance.
  • You work according to modern delivery practices such as Scrum or Kanban, test-driven development, and CI/CD.

What are we looking for?

  • You have deep hands-on experience with the Azure cloud platform, including networking and security.
  • You have proven experience implementing AI solutions using Azure AI Services, such as Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Azure Document Intelligence, and Azure AI Foundry.
  • You have strong expertise in Generative AI, including LLMs, RAG architectures, prompt engineering, chunking and indexing, and search & ranking techniques.
  • You can deliver end-to-end solutions, covering both backend and frontend (UI/UX) aspects.
  • You have solid experience with Databricks, including Mosaic AI, PySpark, SQL, and pipeline orchestration (e.g. Airflow).
  • You are familiar with the Microsoft Power Platform, including Power Apps and Power Automate, and embedded AI capabilities.
  • You use Terraform for infrastructure deployment and lifecycle management.
  • You have a strong architectural mindset and can select the right technologies while balancing integration and maintainability.
  • You have strong analytical and problem-solving skills and take a solution-oriented approach.
  • You are comfortable acting as a technical lead, with clear communication and team-coaching skills.
  • You show an entrepreneurial mindset and proactively take ownership of outcomes.
  • You are fluent in English, knowledge of Dutch and/or French is a plus.

What do we offer?

Duration: 01/02/2026 – 31/01/2027

Location: Brussels (hybrid, up to 50% remote)

Terms: Freelance or Permanent

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