As part of the innovation steering group, he/she oversees technical discussions, investigations, PoCs & decisions. Ensures technical feasibility, scalability & industrialisation of ideas.
Start: ASAP
Ready to travel to Brussels, Belgium, if required.
English: Fluent
Responsibilities
He or she brings the following:
Good creative thinking, problem solving, planning, time-management.
Is able to provide high level technical designs of data platform components
Is able to establish good standards, patterns and practices
Is able to oversee and lead delivery of PoCs/MVPs and alike
Can communicate effectively with external stakeholders
Is familiar with security, automation and cost management aspects of Azure
Experience with analytics and business intelligence concepts and technologies.
Strong presentation and written communication skills.

Expected skills
Requires general technical expertise and not specialisation in one technology only.
Must have experience with
Data & Analytics services and technologies, including Microsoft Azure Analytics services.
Azure Databricks
Optimising & finding efficiencies in the architecture / setup / wow of the value streams
Assessing ideas from multiple angles, translating them in a business case covering initial steps, cost estimations, etc.
Stakeholder management
Business requirement analysis
Agile way of working
Nice to have
Data processing
Skills in developing data processing pipeline leveraging batch and streaming technologies.
Spark, PySpark and understanding the concepts behind it
Medallion architecture: Bronze - Silver - Gold (RAW - Clean - Prepared)
Orchestration, e.g. ADF (or Airflow, Luigi, Prefect)
Data Modelling: SQL - Table format - modelling techniques, e.g. DataVault, Kimball experience.
Bonus
Retail experience
SAP experience
ServiceNow experience