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    Tech Lead - Data & Cloud Engineering at Dataroots

    🚀 Your Role

    At Dataroots, our consulting services focus on designing and delivering AI-powered solutions tailored to optimize business processes. As a Data & Cloud Tech Lead, you'll join a collaborative team dedicated to building the foundational data platforms and infrastructure that bring these solutions to life.

    In this advanced role, you will balance hands-on project work (50-80%) with a broad range of leadership responsibilities. You will drive technical excellence, mentor your peers, and set the standard for quality in data and cloud engineering. Your passion for data and its potential will empower you to design, build, and optimize cutting-edge data platforms. You’ll experiment with the latest approaches to ensure every client receives best-in-class solutions.

    Working closely with our Machine Learning Engineers, Cloud Architects, Data Strategists, and fellow Data and Cloud Engineers you’ll help execute projects across diverse industries with a comprehensive, quality-driven, end-to-end approach. As a leader within the team, you will shape our technical vision, foster a culture of knowledge sharing, and ensure the continuous growth of your fellow team members.


    🎉 What You'll Find at Dataroots

    Since 2016, Dataroots has been committed to helping clients excel in their data-driven operations. Our approach emphasizes team well-being, fostering diversity, and promoting knowledge sharing. By focusing on these values, we've achieved healthy and sustainable growth over the years. We actively encourage professional growth by exposing our employees to different industries, tools, and technologies, broadening their scope in the process.


    As part of the Talan Group, we take this approach to the next level, adding international mobility to our employees’ career journeys.

    Join a team where your work will have a direct impact on both our clients and our journey. Learn more about our DNA at https://dataroots.io/our-dna.

    đź’° The Offer

    An attractive salary with extralegal benefits, including:

    • Mobility budget or a company car with fuel/charging card

    • Hospitalization and group insurance

    • High-end laptop

    • Smartphone with subscription

    • Substantial amount of holidays

    • Meal vouchers

    • ...

    You’ll enjoy a diverse and welcoming work environment, collaborating and unwinding with colleagues from different cultures and disciplines. The organization of both fun and professional events and initiatives is actively encouraged and supported.

    • A training budget for individual and team learning opportunities

    • Tons of team-building events and sports initiatives to stay connected and unwind.

    📍 Where You’ll Work

    Our main offices are in Leuven and Ghent, with co-working spaces in Charleroi and Antwerp. These spaces are perfect for focusing, unwinding with colleagues, brainstorming sessions, and team events. While much of your work can be performed remotely, you will also work on-site with clients.

    🎯 Ready to Join Dataroots?

    Excited to join Dataroots as a Tech Lead - Data & Cloud Engineering? We can't wait to meet you—apply today! 🎉

    Job requirements

    💼 What We’re Looking For

    You bring the following qualities & experiences to the role:

    • Master’s or Doctorate in a quantitative field.

    • 5+ years of industry experience in data and cloud engineering.

    • Proven Expertise in Data & Cloud Engineering: You excel at designing high-performance data platforms and architectures and have experience leading technical teams.

    • Leadership & Mentorship: You have a track record of successfully leading and coaching engineering teams. Your experience includes driving internal projects, defining technical roadmaps, and prioritizing work to align with quarterly goals.

    • Strong Software Engineering Foundations: Proficient with Git, Python, SQL, and Docker, you write clean, maintainable code and advocate for best practices.

    • Cloud Engineering Mastery: You have hands-on experience with Terraform and are skilled in building scalable, secure, cloud-based infrastructures on platforms like AWS, Azure, or GCP.

    • End-to-End Pipeline Expertise: You can create complex ELT/ETL data pipelines —both batch and streaming— using technologies such as spark/dbt and schedule them with tools like Airflow, Prefect, or Dagster.

    • Hands-on Experience with Data Platforms: You are proficient with platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, Azure Data Services, or AWS Data Services.

    • Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools.

    • Excellent communication skills to translate complex solutions into clear client deliverables and to mentor team members effectively.

    • Fluency in English (speaking Dutch/French fluently is a very big advantage).

    • Consulting experience is a big plus.

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