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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Engineering Lead / Evangelist - **Company:** NN Group - **Location:** Spain (Remote available) - **Contract:** Temporary contract - **Skills:** Agile Methodology, Information Engineering, Data Infrastructure, Databricks - **Published:** September 12, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/data-engineering-lead-evangelist-nn-insurance-belgium-8465965 ## About the Role * You have a bachelor's or master's degree and corresponding thinking level. * You have 5+ years of experience in data engineering and/or data platform development in a large-scale enterprise environment. * You have strong hands-on experience with lakehouse/data platform technologies (Databricks preferred) and modern data engineering practices. * You have a solid understanding of lakehouse architectures, data modeling (including medallion patterns), ingestion and transformation patterns, and data quality concepts. * You are comfortable working in an agile environment and can drive initiatives through influence rather than formal authority. * You communicate clearly, facilitate groups confidently, and can adapt your message to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. * You have a strong enablement mindset and enjoy coaching others, designing learning experiences, and growing an engineering community. Nice to Have: * Experience building or running internal enablement programs (academies, learning tracks, communities of practice, guilds). * Relevant certifications (e.g., Databricks Data Engineer) or equivalent demonstrated expertise. * Experience working in an enablement-focused setup (CoE, platform team, or federated operating model) is a plus. If you are a passionate and experienced Data Engineering Lead / Evangelist looking for an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic and challenging environment, we encourage you to apply for this position. We are waiting for you! Please send your CVs in English language. ## Description * Define and drive data engineering standards & best practices: Establish and maintain robust engineering guardrails that are adopted by teams across business units. * Community leadership & evangelism: Organize and facilitate Guild events such as meetups, tech talks, office hours, and hackathons to build an active, engaged data engineering community. * Serve as a visible champion for shared success, encouraging collaboration and knowledge-sharing across teams. * Promote reusable patterns & platform adoption: Evangelize reusable engineering patterns, platform capabilities, and shared assets. * Develop and curate learning programs: Own and continuously improve NN's Data Engineering learning track (part of our internal Data Literacy Program). Ensure the curriculum remains up-to-date, relevant, including creating engaging exercises and assessments. * Training & onboarding enablement: Deliver training workshops, and onboarding programs for new and experienced data engineers. Act as a coach and mentor, fostering an enablement culture where engineers across all business units can advance their skills. * Document and communicate effectively: Develop clear documentation, guidelines, FAQs, and playbooks, and ensure these knowledge assets are well-structured, up-to-date, and easily accessible. * Cross-functional collaboration: Represent Data Engineering in cross-domain forums and communities of practice (e.g. with other guilds Data Science, Architecture, or Engineering). * Influence without direct authority: Work closely with data engineering teams in different business units and the central Data Platform team to align on best practices and standards. The team you'll join: You will be part of the Data & AI enablement ecosystem, working across the organization to strengthen data engineering capabilities. In this role you will collaborate closely with the DLP stakeholders and the Data Engineering Guild core team to drive standards, community engagement, and adoption. We value teamwork, knowledge sharing, and continuous learning, and we actively encourage innovation and personal development. What do we offer? As part of our Employee Experience, we offer you a range of competitive benefits that are available to you in order to improve the physical, mental, and professional wellbeing of our workers. Among the benefits are: * We work with a hybrid model * Starting financial aid so you can equip your workspace at home * Allowance and telework subventions * Flexible working hours and 2 months of intensive working hours in summer so you can fully take advantage of your time * We hire a life insurance and a pension plan for all our employees * We establish objectives bonus as a performance reward * You can get to the office as you please. We have a free parking lot for cars, motorbikes, electric cars with chargers, and bikes. * Get to know our flexible retribution facilities such as transport card, nursery checks, health insurance with Sanitas, trainings… * We care about people. That is why we are involved in society by facilitating volunteer actions and time to all our employees. * We care about your wellbeing. We have a Wellness Program available. * We are digital and we love technology. 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