Business Intelligence Developer

JOB TITLE: DATA ENGINEER / BI DEVELOPER

LOCATION: 2020 ANTWERP, BELGIUM

LANGUAGES: DUTCH

WORK MODE: HYBRID (2 TO 3 DAYS ONSITE PER WEEK)

DURATION: 02/11/2026 - 31/12/2027

JOB DESCRIPTION - ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• In the coming years, substantial investments will be made in this process. On the one hand, the underlying technology is being renewed, and on the other hand, data pipelines and transformations are being further developed.
• In the short term, the FOCUS development organization will also provide support to a number of police units that want to get started with Power BI as a client of the current FOCUS datalake API.
• We are looking for a versatile and experienced Data Engineer / BI Developer who is strong in backend data engineering as well as in unlocking and visualizing data via Power BI.
• The role combines building robust data pipelines and data models with developing high-performance and user-friendly reporting for business users.

PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

• To realize end-to-end data solutions: from raw data to insights.
• The candidate ensures that data is correctly processed, modelled and made accessible, and that it is made effectively usable via dashboards and reports.

RESPONSIBILITIES

BACKEND / DATA ENGINEERING

• Migrating existing data pipelines and data warehouse structures
• Developing and maintaining data pipelines and data transformations
• Modeling data according to common principles (Kimball, Inmon, Data Vault)
• Developing SQL- and Python-based data processing logic
• Experience with commercial data platforms (Fabric, databricks), open source solutions (Apache products), dbt
• Contribute to best practices around data engineering, versioning and deployment
• Improve scalability, reliability and maintainability of the data lake house

BI & VISUALIZATION (POWER BI)

• Develop Power BI datasets and data models (semantic layer)
• Building dashboards and reports for operational and strategic insights
• Translating business questions into concrete visualizations and KPIs
• Optimizing performance and user experience of reports
• Implementing data governance and access management within Power BI
• Supporting self-service BI by guiding

BUSINESS USERS END-TO-END COLLABORATION

• Collaborate with data engineers, architects and business stakeholders
• Actively contribute to new use cases
• Onboard new data domains
• Bridge between technical teams and business (from data to insight)
• Proven experience as a BI Consultant
• Higher education (Master or Bachelor)
• Proven experience with requirements analysis
• Proven experience with Data Management (ETL)
• Demonstrable experience with reporting tools
• Language requirement: Dutch at European CEFR level C2.

SKILLS

• Demonstrable experience as a BI Consultant
• Demonstrable experience as a BI Developer
• Proven experience with Data Management (ETL)
• Proven experience with Git and versioning workflows
• Proven experience with Microsoft Fabric or Azure data stack (Data Factory, Synapse, Fabric, ...)
• Demonstrable experience with Power BI (building semantic model, building dashboards and reports)
• Demonstrable experience with reporting tools
• Good knowledge of datawarehous modeling.
• Higher education (Master or Bachelor)
• IT-Code sign
• NDA sign
• Strong knowledge and project experience of SQL.
• Language requirement: Dutch at European CEFR level C2.
• Proven experience with Azure Data Factory.
• Proven experience with dbt.
• Demonstrated experience with a programming language such as Python.
• Demonstrable experience with requirements analysis
• Strong in translating business questions into data models and visualizations.