For a retail customer expanding their Data Insights & Analytics – Azure Data Platform (ADP) platform team, we are searching for a skilled freelance AI Engineer to help build and extend AI-focused platform capabilities and enablers for their users.

The delivery of these components is crucial to support our organizational data initiatives and platform roadmap in the AI age.

This is an opportunity to drive transformation by enabling their data engineering, data science and other data product teams to leverage the power of AI in their work and thereby derive greater value and insights from their data.

Mission

The key responsibility of the AI Engineer in our Azure platform team is the development of AI enablers and capabilities, which can then be utilized by our data product and data science development teams to enhance the delivery of their AI use cases.
You would be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining AI features and architectural blueprints for the platform and ensuring that these solutions are scalable, secure, cost effective, and easy to use by development teams.
You would also help to set expectations in terms of best practices, safeguards, governance, and quality control.
You would partner with data engineers, data scientists, solution architects, platform automation engineers and product managers to develop AI solutions that will answer the needs of business teams and internal teams (Dev-AI accelerators).
You would primarily leverage the main technologies of our platform (Azure and Databricks) to build robust, cloud-native solutions that can integrate with existing systems.
You would also align your work with organisational safeguards to ensure that AI tools and solutions implemented in ADP meet required standards of governance and approval.

Personal Skills

Excellent analytical and conceptual skills and a critical mindset
Autonomous, proactive, structured, and able to handle multiple tasks simultaneously
Strong teamwork and interpersonal skills. Demonstrated ability to work independently and with others
Excellent verbal, and written communications skills, to include writing/editing of technical documentation for international audiences
Knowledgeable in TCO analysis and scenario-based tradeoff evaluation to support decision-making and architectural choices.
Flexible and motivated to learn new technologies and to stay abreast of innovative solutions
Ability to translate complex problems and technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives, visuals, and frameworks.

Business experience required (work experience)

Strong experience in IT or relevant technical roles
Ability to work within an Agile context

Functional experience required (job experience in particular industry and in particular function)

Between 3-7 years of relevant IT work experience
Demonstrable understanding of AI and Machine Learning concepts and an awareness of the latest AI technologies
Proven experience with incorporating AI functionalities into cloud solutions
Experience working with stakeholders to ensure technical solutions align with organisational and business requirements
Strong understanding of DevOps practices and continuous delivery pipelines
You can lead / contribute to the reference architectures in your own domain
You ensure that cost implications of technical components are factored into your designs

Technical experience required (job experience in particular industry and in particular function)

Between 3-7 years of relevant IT experience
Experience of complex IT landscapes and large organizations
Strong experience with Azure or another commercial cloud platform (e.g. AWS, GCP)
Experience with Databricks (including Unity Catalog)
Experience with existing AI features and functionalities available in modern cloud platforms and/or Databricks

Preferable

Experience with existing AI features in Databricks
Experience in the Retail industry
Experience with Python, Git (GitHub and GitHub Actions) and Terraform
Awareness of Agile methodologies (Scrum, DevOps) or SAFe

Additional Details

SENIORITY: Medior/Senior

START DATE: July

DURATION: 6 Months

EXTENSION: Yes

CONTRACT: Freelance

LOCATION: Brussels

ONSITE POLICY: 1 day per week

HOURS PER WEEK: 40

LANGUAGES: Fluent English

INTERVIEW PROCESS: 1 stage

If you are interested, please forward your updated resume to [email protected] to be considered.