Lead Data Engineer (Azure)

Join one of the leading Data & A.I. consultancies in the Netherlands and work on challenging projects for large organizations. Our experts in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and (Big) Data create customizable solutions that bring business value to clients. To meet the demands of the growing customer base, Anchormen is looking for a Lead Data Engineer (Azure) to strengthen the team.

Job description

How would an Anchormen project and your contribution look like?

The Lead Data Engineer (Azure) is a dynamic role that puts you in the position of a technical lead responsible for implementing solutions together with a team of engineers and data scientists. In this position you will be working with a focus on Azure and the Data Hub and Applied AI solutions.

After the pre-sales process is finished and architects/consultants have created relevant high level technical designs and defined project deliverables, the building phase of the solution starts. You take the lead in detailed designs and implementation of the project. As a lead, you collaborate with your team of data scientists, engineers, project managers, and sales, making sure business value for clients is always delivered. From a customer perspective, you are the technical point of contact responsible for progress, quality, and content. In addition to technically leading the project, you are still actively programming daily within the team.

The right person for this job has excellent communication skills to lead all the technical aspects of project delivery including presenting technical and business concepts to a variety of client stakeholders. When a customer faces significant issues, you step in to find the cause and suggest a solution. Next to that, you can influence and consult, providing options with pros, cons, and risks, around all key technical decisions during project delivery.

Last but not least, all of the leads love to share their knowledge, so they are usually involved in other tasks such as supporting marketing by preparing events and bootcamps, writing technical blogs, going to conferences, training customers through Academy programs and sharing their knowledge with colleagues in the form of Tech talks or round tables.

Job requirements

• A Bachelor or Master’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

• You already are a lead engineer and have experience with leading projects and leading a team of technical people

• You have hands-on object-oriented programming experience (Python/Java)

• You have experience in designing and building data applications / pipelines

• Excellent coding skills (clear coding, unit testing, CI/CD, gitflow etc)

• You understand the diverse ways of storing and processing data (file vs SQL vs NO-SQL, batch vs streaming, stateful vs stateless)

• Strong interpersonal skills, customer-centric attitude, proven team player and team builder

• Exceptional communication and presentation skills to include technical and business concepts

• Speaking Dutch is a big plus

• Experience with 2 or more Azure cloud technologies and eagerness to learn more:

• Storage: Blob / Azure Data Lake Storage gen 2, Cosmos DB, SQL

• Processing / ELT: Databricks (Spark), Functions, Data Factory

• CI/CD: Azure DevOps

• Streaming: Event Hub, Service bus

• Containers: Container Instances, Web/API Apps, Azure Kubernetes

• Networking: security groups, routing, etc.

What We Offer

As an employer, Anchormen encourages an entrepreneurial mindset and drive. The company does not believe in micro-management and shares responsibility with staff, focusing on adding value to the business and clients. The role also offers:

• Being part of a fast-growing and innovative informal company

• Working on exciting state-of-the art data projects

• Friendly, professional, and cooperative colleagues

• A competitive salary based on your skills and experience

• Competitive primary and secondary benefits

• 8% Holiday allowance

• Homework allowance

• Transportation allowance

• Pension scheme

• 25 Holidays

• Annual training budget

• Laptop/Mac + mobile phone with subscription