Principal Software Engineer

Freelance Cloud Native Data Engineer needed!

3 month rolling contract (2 years+)
Remote (some travel to Brussels)
Rate: Negotiable depending on experience

• Hands-on experience with ETL processes and data integration from various sources
• Familiarity with modern data technologies and cloud services.
• Proficient in designing and implementing data models to meet business requirements. ? Experience with Data Mesh
• A keen interest in staying updated on emerging technologies in the data engineering and Data space.
  
  
• A minimum experience of 5 years in Cloud Native Data Engineering.
• Experience with rearchitecting existing monolithic architecture to micro-services based Cloud Native architectures.
• Strong understanding of Cloud Native architectures (loosely coupled services, containers, horizontal scalability, application resilience patterns).
• Proficiency in at least one programming language – Java or Scala
  
  Knowledge and experience with at least some of the Data technologies/frameworks:
  
• Workflow orchestration (AirFlow/Oozie etc.)
• Data integration/Ingestion (Nifi, Flume etc)
• Messaging/Data Streaming (Kafka/RabbitMQ etc.)
• Data Processing (Spark, Flink etc.)
• RDBMS (PostgreSQL/MySql etc.)
• NoSQL Storages (MongoDB, Cassandra, Neo4j etc.)
• Timeseries (InfluxDB, OpenTSDB, TimescaleDB, Prometheus etc.)
• And / Or with their Cloud provided counterparts, i.e., Cloud Data/Analytics services (GCP, Azure, AWS)
  
  Proficiency in the following Tech Stack:
  
  
• Deployment & Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm.
• CI/CD & DevOps Tools: Azure DevOps, Gitlab CI Actions, GitOps, Gitlab, Bash/Shell scripting, Linux
• Database change management: tools (such as Liquibase or Flyway)
• Familiarity with agile development methodologies and tools (e.g., Scrum, SAFE, JIRA, Confluence).