{"id":11928,"date":"2026-09-09T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i-spark.nl\/?page_id=11928"},"modified":"2026-10-06T08:50:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T08:50:13","slug":"data-engineer","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/i-spark.nl\/en\/data-engineer\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Engineer at i-spark"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Data Engineer
with hands-on AI fluency<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Leek, Netherlands \u00b7 Junior to Medior \u00b7 Active vacancy<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Send us your CV, short description of yourself and your motivation.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n

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A data engineer who uses modern AI tooling hands-on, as a normal part of the job.<\/strong><\/p>

This isn’t an AI engineering role. You lean on AI tools heavily day to day, and you’re curious about where data and AI keep meeting.<\/p>

You divide your time between data architecture tasks, such as helping to design or improve a client’s data setup and hands-on practical work, such as fixing a data pipeline during an outage.<\/p>

Both are part of the role.<\/p>

The work<\/h3>

You’d split your time between architecture-style work, like helping design or improve a client’s data setup, and hands-on practical work, like fixing a pipeline when it breaks. Both are part of the job.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Who we're hoping to meet<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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We care more about how you work than who you are on paper. What we’re after: how you work and who you are.<\/p>

Thinking from the client’s side.<\/strong> You put yourself in the client’s shoes and sense whether a fix is worth 2 hours or 2 days. Does the investment justify itself, in cost, in risk, in time? You default to the option that makes sense for that client.<\/p>

You’re comfortable with client contact.<\/strong> Some direct client contact comes with the role, so being at ease in that setting matters.<\/p>

An adjacent background is fine.<\/strong> You don’t need a strict data background. Interest in data counts for more than a data-specific r\u00e9sum\u00e9.<\/p>

Dutch and English.<\/strong> You can hold a conversation in both.<\/p>

Nice to have:<\/strong> interest or experience in data governance, security, or privacy, things like data sovereignty, open versus closed AI models, or self-hosting decisions. A plus, not a requirement.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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What you get beyond the basics<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Flexibility you feel in your actual day:<\/b>\u00a0roughly one day a week we are together in the office, the rest is remote, and beyond that you work when it suits your life.<\/p>

Early riser, night owl, school run at 3 PM;\u00a0we care that the work is good, not that you sat at a desk between fixed hours.<\/b><\/p>

And\u00a0no heavy commercial targets<\/b>\u00a0breathing down your neck. We are human first, and we would rather do work worth doing and do it well than chase billable hours for their own sake.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Fields & tools<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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PowerBI<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Looker<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Snowflake<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Other open roles<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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