Freelance Data Engineer
Summary
Freelance senior data engineer owning the real-time data platform behind Mediahuis's newsroom Traffic Dashboard — managing Elasticsearch, building Databricks/Spark workloads and Kafka/Azure Event Hubs streaming pipelines, with monitoring, reliability and API integration work. Onsite in Antwerp two days per week.
Your impact.
a Senior Data Engineer to take technical ownership of the data foundation behind our Traffic Dashboard.
We believe you could be the perfect fit.
Traffic Dashboard is a business-critical application used daily across our newsrooms. You make sure the real-time data platform behind it remains stable, reliable, efficient and continuously available, allowing our editorial teams to rely on accurate real-time insights throughout the day.
You've already started daydreaming? Keep reading - this opportunity is even better than you imagined!
Taking ownership of our Elasticsearch environment , ensuring it remains healthy, performant and correctly scaled;
Owning the real-time data pipeline feeding Traffic Dashboard and safeguarding data quality, latency and completeness;
Proactively monitoring the platform and investigating performance degradation, data gaps and production incidents before they impact our users;
Designing and implementing reliable changes with appropriate testing, monitoring and rollback strategies;
Further developing our real-time data architecture and APIs , including the integration between Elasticsearch, Databricks and Traffic Dashboard;
Building and productionising data workloads in Databricks and Apache Spark and working with streaming technologies such as Kafka or Azure Event Hubs ;
Improving observability, scalability and maintainability while reducing the operational complexity of the platform.
You are available to work onsite in Antwerp two days per week .
What makes you a great fit?
What's about to become your second home?
You'll join TPS, the international technology organization of Mediahuis . Within this environment, you'll take ownership of the technical foundation behind Traffic Dashboard, a business-critical platform used across our newsrooms. You'll work at the intersection of real-time data, data engineering and application development, collaborating with colleagues to ensure our journalists and editorial teams can rely on fast, complete and accurate data every day.
