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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