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One data organization, with a clear vision & strategy to build high-quality data assets, innovative AI products and strong insight cases together with the business teams.\nThe Data Platform & Architecture team brings together data architects and cloud data platform engineers, combining solution design with hands-on engineering. We build and operate the state-of-the-art Data & AI platform that powers these data and AI capabilities across Telenet. We are looking for a Senior Cloud Data & AI Platform Engineer to join us.\nYour responsibilities as a Cloud Data & AI Platform Engineer\nIn this senior role, you will set technical direction and work hands-on to shape the platform foundations behind Telenet’s data, GenAI and Agentic AI ambitions. Your impact will be measured by how securely, efficiently and effectively data teams can deliver at scale. To achieve this, you will take ownership across platform engineering, AI-driven operations, collaboration and innovation.\nWhat you will do:\nDesign and coordinate the implementation of products and services on AWS & Snowflake, from secure storage to compute and purpose-based access management.\nCreate reusable abstractions over the underlying infrastructure so data teams can focus on data processing and the platform can adopt new technologies without requiring a large-scale migration.\nBuild accelerators and frameworks that make the whole tribe more efficient and effective.\nSafeguard platform continuity through support and standard upgrades, with DevOps that is increasingly agentic.\nApply FinOps practices across Snowflake and AWS to improve cost efficiency and transparency, attribute costs to the teams that drive them and continuously identify optimization opportunities.\nDesign and build the platform foundations for Agentic AI, including knowledge graph, context layer and agent platform capabilities, so teams can create agents that work securely with trusted, well-governed data.\nDesign how GenAI capabilities, such as LLMs, are integrated into our data workbench in a structural, secure and scalable way, to support data pipelines, model training and data exploration.\nAI-driven DevOps\nIdentify and implement opportunities for agents to automate platform workflows, monitoring, incident follow-up, upgrades, support and cost optimization, with appropriate guardrails and human oversight.\nLead by example in using AI and agents in your own engineering work.\nCollaboration & innovation\nWork closely with stakeholders to define the best fit-for-purpose solution and make sure it is adopted.\nLead platform and technology innovation by evaluating relevant developments, translating them into concrete platform opportunities and keeping the capability roadmap current in the fast-moving Data & AI landscape.\nOur ideal Cloud Data & AI Platform Engineer\nA Bachelor's or Master's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent experience.\nExtensive experience designing and operating production-grade data platforms, with the technical judgment to set direction and guide other engineers.\nExcellent knowledge of Snowflake, AWS, Terraform and Python.\nGood knowledge of EMR, EKS (& Kubernetes), Spark and GitLab.\nExperience with modern schedulers such as Dagster or Airflow.\nExperience with scalable API development in a demanding production environment.\nAn AI-driven way of working: you use AI tools and agents daily and see them as part of how you engineer.\nA strong sense of end-to-end ownership, from identifying a need and designing the solution to operating and continuously improving it.\nStrong communication skills and the confidence to challenge assumptions constructively, align stakeholders and explain technical decisions clearly.\nA problem-solving mindset.\nFluent English.\nOur offer to you\nAt Telenet group, you get more than just an attractive gross salary. We strongly believe in results and ownership: we give trust but also expect commitment and impact. What you achieve truly matters.\nIn addition to a thirteenth-month salary and holiday pay, you can count on an extensive package of extra benefits that supports you in your daily life as well as at work.\nAn overview of our benefits:\nMobility budget: compose your own mobility plan, you can opt for a company car or alternative mobility solutions \nMeal vouchers and eco vouchers \nMobile phone, mobile subscription, laptop, and employee discounts \nCollective bonus and individual bonus (aligned with your performance) \nHospitalization insurance (including an ambulatory plan) and group insurance \n20 days of paid leave and 12 compensatory days off \nWe value your ongoing development, investing in growth via our internal learning platform, coaching, and on-the-job training. 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