Data Scientist Senior – Belgium; Hybrid

Profile

The senior data scientist is responsible for designing, deploying, securing and managing the Power BI environment in a reliable and cost-efficient manner.

• Designing and implementing the Power BI environment (Fabric), with tenant and admin configuration
• Establish and maintain Dev Ops practices: CI/CD pipelines, environments (dev/test/prod), monitoring and alerting.
• Implementing security and access controls in accordance with the ICT policy.
• Automate platform operations to reduce manual work and risk.
• Ensuring that the platform is production-ready and operationally robust.
• Guaranteeing security, access control and compliance (IAM, networks, secrets, GDPR-by-design).
• Monitoring performance, reliability and costs of the data platform.
• Support Dev Ops, Data Ops, and MLOps practices across analytics and AI workloads.

• Several years of experience in rolling out and keeping Power BI (Fabric) environment operational.
• Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines and automating platform operations.
• Works smoothly within enterprise ICT standards and compliance frameworks (GDPR, IAM, security policies).

• Strong knowledge of Fabric.
• Fluent with Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Bicep, ARM) and CI/CD tooling (Azure Dev Ops, Git Hub Actions).
• Setting up monitoring, alerting, logging and cost management at platform level.
• Knowledge of IAM, secrets management, private endpoints and network segmentation.

• Senior mindset: coaches junior engineers and monitors platform standards.
• Automation reflex: if it has to happen twice, it will be scripted.
• Reliability-oriented: stability, performance and safety as standard.
• Hands-on and pragmatic in problem solving.
• Collaborative with ICT, governance and the data teams.
• Operational discipline and an eye for neat documentation.
• You act according to the 3 core values of the UZG: respectful, honest and responsible.