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# Data Platform Engineer

- **Company:** European Tech Recruit
- **Location:** Brussels Metropolitan Area, Belgium
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Audit Trail, Data Deduplication, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Data Retention, Relational Databases, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Remote File Sharing, ISO/IEC 15504, Management of Software Versions, CodeBeamer, Api Design, Data Pipelines
- **Published:** September 12, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.adzuna.be/details/5879870629

## About the Role

* Strong Data Engineering and data pipeline experience
 * Excellent relational database design and modelling skills
 * Strong Python for automation, pipelines and API development
 * Experience handling large media/binary datasets and object storage
 * Experience building data dashboards and reporting
 * Practical understanding of GDPR, PII, consent and data retention
 * Understanding of ML dataset lifecycles and visual-data workflows
 * Excellent communication and collaboration skills

## Description

We're looking for a Data Platform Engineer to own the end-to-end platform managing a large and growing collection of video data used for Machine Learning.

You'll replace ad-hoc file sharing and manual processes with a governed, automated and reproducible data platform covering ingestion, storage, metadata, dataset versioning, GDPR/consent management, processing pipelines and reporting.

What You'll Do

 * Build automated video ingestion and processing pipelines, including validation, metadata extraction and deduplication
 * Design robust relational data models and metadata catalogues
 * Implement GDPR and consent management, audit trails, retention and automated notifications
 * Establish dataset versioning and reproducibility across ML experiments
 * Build APIs and interfaces for data input, browsing and management
 * Develop dashboards covering data quality, dataset usage, compliance and operational metrics
 * Ensure traceability aligns with ASPICE and integrate with Codebeamer
 * Deploy and operate the platform securely, including appropriate isolation of sensitive data
 * Occasionally support data collection and in-car testing


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