Senior Data Engineer
Job Title: Senior Data Engineer
Location: Brussels
Start Date: 05/01/2026
End Date: 30/06/2026
Mission Context:
We are looking for a strong hands-on Senior Data Engineer with a solid understanding of the banking business. The primary mission is to deliver business-driven digital solutions, dashboards, and ad hoc reporting for Corporate Banking end users, including Sales, Metiers, and Management. The role involves working with federated data in a preparation environment to feed various visualization solutions via Alteryx flows.
Responsibilities:
- Enhance and streamline legacy Alteryx workflows by applying clean coding principles, centralizing logic, removing redundancies, and improving long-term maintainability.
- Implement improvements progressively across environments, validate impacts, collaborate with users, and ensure no regression on downstream dashboards.
- Collaborate with the Data Engineering Team to ingest data from various systems, ensuring timely integration of new data sources with high reliability and correctness.
- Simplify existing data flows and design processes to enhance efficiency, reduce complexity, and improve overall system performance.
- Identify obsolete datasets, unused files, and abandoned workflows; refactor or retire them and help harmonize historization and retention rules.
- Design and maintain reusable Alteryx macros to centralize repeated transformation patterns, ensure consistent logic across workflows, and reduce technical debt.
- Rationalize SAS and Alteryx coexistence by removing outdated SAS components and migrating useful transformations into consistent maintainable Alteryx logic.
- Support and improve the deployment and release process by increasing automation coverage and quality checks.
- Apply and reinforce documentation standards for datasets and workflows.
- Establish and maintain robust monitoring systems to track data quality and performance.
- Oversee the management of daily batches to ensure consistency, synchronization, and efficient resource utilization across different environments.
Language Requirements:
- Dutch (or French)
- French (or Dutch)
- Fluent knowledge of English
Education and Experience:
- Master in Computer Sciences, Business, or equivalent experience.
- At least 4-5 years of relevant experience.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of data flows and data preparation techniques.
- Knowledge of relational databases including SQL Server and analytics.
- Proficiency in Alteryx and SQL language, especially Transact-SQL.
- Notions in data visualization solutions and techniques.
- Certification in Design & Data Architecture is a plus.
Technical Experience:
- Strong background in Alteryx or similar ETL tools.
- Proficiency in SQL language.
- Experience with versioning tools (SVN, Git) is preferable.
- Hands-on experience with SAS.
- Notions of data visualization tools like Tableau.
- Knowledge of Python or similar programming language.
- Familiarity with CI/CD practices.
Business Experience:
- Experience with banking companies or other financial institutions is preferable.
- Practical experience with Agile methodology.
Soft Skills:
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to extrapolate from a detailed technical view to a global vision.
- Knowledge sharing abilities.
- Proactive in communication and active listening.
- Agile mindset, which implies a positive attitude, pragmatism, and a focus on team success and continuous improvement.