Datawarehouse Developer Senior – Belgium; Hybrid

ABOUT US The Ghent University Hospital (UZG) is a university hospital in Ghent. As a leading university hospital, we strive for top quality care and combine warmth and empathy for our patients and employees with bold innovations. We invest thoughtfully in research, in state‑of‑the‑art infrastructure and technology, in education and development and in effective organizational forms. The result is a high‑quality and efficient healthcare offering that is tailored to our unique expertise and that we offer within a sustainable framework.

The senior data warehouse developer is responsible for designing, deploying, securing and managing the cloud data platform in a reliable and cost‑efficient manner.

• Designing and implementing the cloud infrastructure (Azure), including compute, storage and networking.
• Establish and maintain Dev Ops practices: CI/CD pipelines, environments (dev/test/prod), monitoring and alerting.
• Implement security and access controls in accordance with the ICT policy.
• Automate platform operations to reduce manual work and risk.
• Ensure that the platform is production‑ready and operationally robust.
• Guarantee security, access control and compliance (IAM, networks, secrets, GDPR‑by‑design).
• Monitor 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 deploying and keeping cloud environments operational, preferably Azure.
• 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 Azure: networking, storage, compute and security.
• 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 problem solving.
• Collaborative with ICT, governance and the data teams.
• Operational discipline and an eye for neat documentation.
• Act according to the 3 core values of the UZG: respectful, honest and responsible.