[Hiring] Freelance Senior Databricks Platform Engineer @adesso Belgium

Role Description

For one of our international customers, we are urgently looking for a senior Databricks Platform engineer. The role we are currently looking for is closer to a Databricks Platform Engineer than a traditional Data Engineer or BI consultant. The objective is to help design and build a Data Product Platform on Databricks, with a strong focus on:

• Platform architecture
• Governance
• Infrastructure as Code
• CI/CD
• Security
• Enabling multiple teams to build and operate data products

Your Role in projects:

• Design & build data platforms
• Design and implement Lakehouse architectures on Databricks (medallion / bronze-silver-gold patterns, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog)
• Build robust batch and streaming data pipelines using PySpark and Spark SQL, orchestrated via Databricks Workflows / Jobs
• Model data for analytics use cases (e.g. star schema for BI, curated datasets for data science)
• Ingest, transform & govern data
• Ingest data from APIs, files, databases and SaaS sources into data lakes and lakehouses
• Implement clear and testable transformation logic (data quality checks, deduplication, SCD, CDC, business rules)
• Apply data governance best practices (cataloguing, lineage, RBAC, masking of sensitive data)
• Operate & optimize
• Set up CI/CD and deployment pipelines (Azure DevOps / GitHub) for Databricks assets (notebooks, jobs, pipelines, workflows)
• Monitor, optimize and troubleshoot pipelines and clusters for performance, robustness and cost efficiency
• Help define and implement best practices, coding standards and reusable components within the team

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Databricks platform architecture
• Unity Catalog and governance
• CI/CD and DevOps for Databricks - Enterprise GitHub
• Terraform / Infrastructure as Code
• Lakehouse architecture
• Data Product Platform enablement
• The Knowledge Graph, ontology and agentic AI are considered a strong plus
• Unity catalogue, CICD, IAC and terraform skills in mode implementation and integration

Benefits

• Work in an international group with strong local expertise in Belgium
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams within the international data & AI adesso community
• Flexible freelance setup with the support of a growing adesso Belgium community