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Data Engineer

Posted 22 Mar 2024
Work experience
5 to 7 years
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
Job function
Degree level
Required languages
English (Fluent)
Dutch (Fluent)

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It's an interesting time for you to come on board at Vopak! Around the world, we connect the supply of and demand for vital products and resources. Energy that allows people to heat their homes and travel the world. Food for a growing planet. And chemicals for companies to use. Products that are vital to people’s lives. We ensure the safe, efficient and clean storage of such vital products. The global energy transition, the growing world population, and all new possibilities of emerging technologies make this a very interesting time to be doing business. If this global working environment appeals to you and you have the right skills and mindset, then apply now to become a part of our Vopak team.

As a Data Engineer it's an interesting time for you to come on board at Vopak! We are looking for a savvy Data Engineer to join our growing team of data & analytics experts. You will be responsible for expanding and optimizing our data and data pipeline architecture, as well as optimizing data flow and collection for cross functional teams. The ideal candidate is an experienced data pipeline builder and data wrangler who enjoys optimizing data systems and building them from the ground up. The Data Engineer will support our business intelligence architects, data analysts and data scientists on data initiatives and will ensure optimal data delivery architecture is consistent throughout ongoing projects. The right candidate will be excited by the prospect of optimizing or even re-designing our company’s data architecture to support our next generation of products and data initiatives. If this is you, then we would be happy to meet you!

The Data Engineer works with the data architects, data analytics team, data scientists, and data warehouse engineers in order to understand and aid in the implementation of database requirements, analyze performance, and troubleshoot any existent issues. The position of the Data Engineer also plays a key role in the development and deployment of innovative big data platforms for advanced analytics and data processing. The Data Engineer will report to the Manager Agile Services.

Your three main missions

  • ‘You will be responsible for the maintenance, improvement, cleaning, and manipulation of data in the operational and analytics databases’.
  • ‘You will be the expert in SQL development further providing support to the Data and Analytics in database design, data flow and analysis activities'.
  • "You will be responsible for defining and building the data pipelines that will enable faster, better, data-informed decision-making within the business’.

Your job in bullet points

  • Participate in proof of concepts for determining fit for purpose solutions;
  • Work with a variety of databases;
  • Build and optimize ‘big data’ data pipelines, architectures and data sets;
  • Perform root cause analysis on internal and external data and processes to answer specific business questions and identify opportunities for improvement;
  • Work with unstructured data sets;
  • Build processes supporting data transformation, data structures, metadata, dependency and workload management;
  • Manipulate, process and extract value from large disconnected data sets;
  • Setup message queuing, stream processing, and highly scalable ‘big data’ data stores;
  • Work with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment;
  • Perform thorough testing and validation in order to support the accuracy of data transformations and data verification used in machine learning models;
  • Enable and run data migrations across different databases and different servers;
  • Analyze complex data elements and systems, data flow, dependencies, and relationships in order to contribute to conceptual physical and logical data models;
  • Develop and implement scripts for database maintenance, monitoring, and performance tuning to be applied across the business.

We are looking for a candidate

  • With 5+ years of experience in a Data Engineer role, who has attained a Graduate degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or another quantitative field;
  • That believes in an agile way of working / scrum and has a pragmatic approach to problem solving;
  • That will help look in the company for new data sources that can be connected and utilized;
  • That could help improve the governance of data and would help data owners how they can publish and manage their data;
  • Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases;
  • Experience with AWS cloud services like S3, Athena, Glue, Redshift;
  • Experience with big data tools like Hadoop, Spark, Kafka;
  • Experience with relational SQL and NoSQL databases;
  • Experience with Data Vault;
  • Experience with data pipeline and workflow management tools;
  • Experience with extract, transform, load tools like Informatica Powercenter;
  • Experience with stream-processing systems: Storm, Spark-Streaming;
  • Experience with object-oriented/object function scripting languages: Python, Java, C++, Scala;
  • Strong written and verbal communication;
  • Demonstrated strong teamwork, interpersonal and communications skills;
  • Demonstrated intensity in completion of work assignments;
  • Demonstrated strong analytical and problem solving skills.

Are you the Data Engineer we are looking for?

Then start your journey at Vopak and apply via the ‘apply’ button below. For more information about the vacancy please contact HR Officer Recruitment; Melissa Wanner at melissa.wanner@vopak.com

An e-assessment may be a part of the selection procedure.

What we offer:

Every career at Vopak is given the opportunity to shine! When you join Vopak, you can count on:

  • A challenging position with a high degree of responsibility in a Dutch multinational with a history over 400 years;
  • Highly motivated colleagues;

Room to grow through professional training and personal development opportunities at national and international level.

Royal Vopak is 's werelds toonaangevende onafhankelijke tankopslagbedrijf. We slaan vitale producten met zorg op. Met meer dan 400 jaar geschiedenis en een focus op innovatie en duurzaamheid, zorgen we voor veilige, schone en efficiënte opslag en behandeling van vloeibare bulkproducten en gassen. Producten die essentieel zijn voor het bestaan van mensen.
Werken bij Vopak betekent dus waarde toevoegen aan het dagelijks leven van mensen. Wil jij ook impact maken? Wij leren je graag kennen!

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Active in 30 countries
1,100 employees
70% men - 30% women
Average age is 35 years

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