Data Scientist Senior JP054024

Senior Data Platform Engineer (Power BI / Fabric) Part-Time Contract
Ghent Belgium (On-site)
Duration: 4 months (11 May 2026 1 September 2026)
Workload: 1 day per week

We are looking for a Senior Data Platform Engineer to design implement and manage a secure scalable and cost-efficient Power BI (Fabric) environment within an enterprise setting.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement the Power BI / Fabric platform including tenant and admin configuration
• Set up and maintain DevOps practices (CI/CD pipelines dev/test/prod environments monitoring alerting)
• Implement security and access controls aligned with enterprise ICT policies
• Automate platform operations to reduce manual effort and operational risk
• Ensure the platform is production-ready stable and scalable
• Guarantee security access control and compliance (IAM networking secrets GDPR-by-design)
• Monitor platform performance reliability and cost efficiency
• Support DevOps DataOps and MLOps practices across analytics and AI workloads

Required Experience

• Proven experience implementing and operating Power BI (Fabric) environments
• Strong background in CI/CD setup and platform automation
• Experience working within enterprise ICT standards and compliance frameworks (e.g. GDPR IAM security policies)

Key Skills

• Strong expertise in Microsoft Fabric and Power BI
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Bicep ARM)
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools (Azure DevOps GitHub Actions)
• Experience with monitoring alerting logging and cost management at platform level
• Solid understanding of IAM secrets management private endpoints and network segmentation

Profile

• Senior mindset with the ability to guide and support junior engineers
• Automation-driven approach: reduces repetition through scripting
• Strong focus on reliability performance and security
• Hands-on and pragmatic problem solver
• Collaborative across ICT governance and data teams
• Strong documentation discipline and operational rigor

Languages

• English: Fluent (required)
• Dutch or French: Nice to have