Senior data engineer

Senior Data Engineer (Geo / GIS)

Find out exactly what skills, experience, and qualifications you will need to succeed in this role before applying below.

Location: Belgium (Brussels or Ghent preferred)

Working Model: Hybrid (approximately 2 days per week in-office, depending on location)

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Data Engineer with an interest in geospatial data to join a growing data team responsible for one of the most critical components of a data-driven platform: the address and location data infrastructure.

This role sits at the heart of the organisation's data ecosystem. You will be responsible for building, maintaining, and improving large-scale address datasets that support search, data linking, analytics, and product functionality across multiple business areas.

The position offers the opportunity to solve complex real-world geospatial challenges involving fragmented data sources, historical location changes, inconsistent formats, and data quality issues. It is ideal for an engineer who enjoys ownership, problem-solving, and working with large, complex datasets.

Key Responsibilities

• Own and continuously improve a core address and location data platform
• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and validation
• Integrate and standardise data from multiple external and internal sources
• Develop solutions for address matching, enrichment, deduplication, and linking
• Resolve complex geospatial and data quality challenges
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and data teams to ensure reliable downstream data usage
• Contribute to broader data engineering initiatives and platform improvements

What You'll Bring

Required Experience-

• Strong background in Data Engineering
• Experience designing and maintaining production-grade data pipelines
• Advanced SQL skills and experience working with large datasets
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
• Ability to work independently and take ownership of critical systems
• Experience with data quality, validation, and transformation processes

Preferred Experience-

• Experience working with geospatial (GIS) data or a strong interest in developing expertise in this area
• Familiarity with cloud-based data infrastructure, particularly AWS
• Experience with Elasticsearch or OpenSearch
• Exposure to integrating multiple external data sources
• Experience working with complex, messy, or fragmented datasets
• Knowledge of European geographic or address datasets is advantageous

Why Join?

• Work on highly impactful data challenges that directly influence product quality
• Solve real-world geospatial and data engineering problems at scale
• Join a collaborative, experienced team with strong technical foundations
• Enjoy a high level of ownership and autonomy
• Build solutions that are used across multiple products and business functions
• Contribute to the evolution of a growing data platform

Team-

You will join a specialist data team working closely with engineering and product stakeholders. The team values pragmatic problem-solving, collaboration, and building robust solutions that deliver measurable business impact.

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