Senior Data Engineer

As a Data Engineer in the DPG Network Area, you exploit the daily reach of millions of readers and viewers on our online platforms as a competitive advantage by closely collaborating with analysts and data scientists across all departments throughout the entire organisation. You build cloud-based data pipelines, both batch and streaming, and its underlying infrastructure. In short: you live up to our principle You Build It, You Run It.

DPG Network Area

At DPG Media we all contribute to our mission to entertain, inspire and inform as many people as possible. Here at the DPG Network Area specifically we are at the very centre of our digital strategy. As such you’ll have the opportunity to join a team whose everyday activities have a real impact on our company, and perhaps even digital media as a whole.

Your profile

How will you make a difference?

• One day you build an ETL to feed our reporting system, the next you’re building a real-time customer profile by aggregating his online behaviour and allowing the usage of this profile to recommend other articles on our online platforms.
• Co-develop and cooperate the cloud-based data pipelines and platform from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
• Closely collaborate with business stakeholders, data scientists and analysts in our daily work, data engineering guild and communities of practice.
• You are a protagonist in harmonising our data landscape across countries, over departments and through acquisitions.

Your must-have knowledge and experience

• Experience implementing highly available and scalable big data platforms
• In depth knowledge of at least one cloud provider, preferably AWS
• Experience developing in at least one of the following languages in the context of data engineering: Scala, Python, shell scripting or very good knowledge about databases and willingness to learn Python and Scala
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and CI/CD pipelines
• Full understanding of modern software engineering best practices
• DevOps mindset
• You see the value in a team and enjoy working together with others, also with techniques like pair-programming
• You either have an AWS certification or are willing to achieve AWS certification within 6 months (minimum AWS Certified Associate
  
  

Nice to have knowledge

• Experience building highly automated infrastructures 
• Experience with Kafka and Kubernetes
• Domain-driven design
• Expertise in designing, analysing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems
• Define and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems, and automated security controls
• Systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communication skills
• Familiarity with functional programming principles
  

Dive into our data story
If you’re considering this job but would like to know what you are getting yourself into first, we’ve got some great content for you.
- Data Mesh at DPG Media
- Meet Data Engineer Jochen

Offer

We strongly believe in autonomous and self-managing teams, so you get a lot of say in how you want to work or what you want to improve.

You will be working at a leading media company bustling with fun colleagues. Like you, they are passionate about digital and offline media and are continuously learning new things from each other and from the best in the trade. You are set out on a journey where every next week will be different from the last, and where you are stimulated on a daily basis to take things to the next level.

You get the opportunity to keep reinventing yourself in an environment where continuous learning is the benchmark. All of this through training (internal and external), online courses, experiments,... You decide where the journey takes you, with maximum support from us! Last but not least we offer a full financial package within a fair team wage policy.

Even more reasons to work at DPG Media

We offer a high-performing tech workplace where we treasure freedom, from how you find solutions to choosing your path. Feel free to be an entrepreneur, an apprentice, a team player, and, of course, to be you. We welcome everyone to apply, whatever your background may be. A great bunch of smart colleagues awaits you and are eager for you to join the team.

Will you be our new colleague? Then apply now! Want to know more first? I would be happy to answer your questions via daan.de.keyser@dpgmedia.be │ Linkedin