Position Description:
As a Lead Data Engineer, you will design and build modern cloud-native data platforms that support analytics, AI, and data-driven decision-making. You will collaborate with architects, engineers, and business stakeholders on complex data challenges across sectors such as government, financial services, infrastructure, energy, and industry.
In addition to your technical expertise, you will play a key role in mentoring colleagues and shaping best practices within our Data & Analytics practice.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
• Design and develop Data Lakes, Data Warehouses, and Lakehouse solutions.
• Build scalable ETL/ELT pipelines for batch and real-time processing.
• Design data models, data quality, and governance solutions.
• Implement cloud-native data architectures on AWS.
• Develop event-driven and serverless solutions.
• Support analytics, BI, AI, and Machine Learning initiatives.
• Coach Data Engineers and contribute to architecture and design decisions.
• Collaborate within Agile teams on innovative client solutions.
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
• Minimum 10 years of experience as a Data Engineer.
• Experience with cloud-native data platforms.
• Strong knowledge of Data Engineering, ETL/ELT, Data Modeling, and Data Warehousing.
Experience with:
Cloud
• AWS (S3, Redshift, Glue, Athena, Lambda, DynamoDB, ECS/Fargate, Step Functions, SNS/SQS)
Data & Big Data
• Apache Spark
• Apache Kafka
• SQL
• Python
Databases
• PostgreSQL, Oracle, SQL Server or similar relational databases
• Experience with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, DynamoDB, or Cassandra.
Engineering
• Git
• Docker
• CI/CD
• Infrastructure as Code
• Agile/Scrum
Highly Desired
Databricks & Modern Data Platforms
• Databricks
• Delta Lake
• Unity Catalog
• Lakehouse Architecture
• Knowledge of Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, or similar platforms.
Graph Technologies
• Neo4j, Amazon Neptune, GraphDB or similar graph database technologies
• Graph Data Modeling
• Graph Analytics
• Knowledge Graphs
• Data Lineage and Dependency Mapping
Nice to Have
• Event-Driven Architecture
• Microservices
• Machine Learning & Advanced Analytics
• Azure Data Platform experience
Education
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Informatics, or a related field.
AWS and Databricks certifications are a plus.
Why CGI Eindhoven? Why High Tech & Electronics?
At CGI Eindhoven, we believe the best collaboration happens when you work closely with your clients. That's why we're based at the High Tech Campus Eindhoven, located in the heart of the Netherlands' leading innovation ecosystem. From this location, we support some of the most innovative organizations in the High Tech & Electronics sector across the Brainport region.
You'll work on challenging Data & AI transformation projects for clients that are at the forefront of technological innovation. Our strong local presence enables you to build long-term relationships, gain a deep understanding of our clients' challenges, and deliver visible business impact.
At the same time, you'll benefit from the strength of CGI: a global network of experts, international knowledge sharing, and the stability of one of the world's largest IT and business consulting firms—combined with the entrepreneurial culture, agility, and close collaboration of a local team.
Interested?
Would you like to build modern data platforms and work on projects with social and business impact? We'd love to hear from you.
Do you have questions about the role? Feel free to contact Johan Peters, Director Consulting Services, at
[email protected].
Do you have any questions about the recruitment process? Please contact Recruitment Business Partner Kimberley Thoonen-Broens by phone at +31 6 15 69 04 59 or via [email protected].
Skills:
- Data Engineering
- Data Engineering
What you can expect from us:
Together, as owners, let’s turn meaningful insights into action.
Life at CGI is rooted in ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here, you’ll reach your full potential because…
You are invited to be an owner from day 1 as we work together to bring our Dream to life. That’s why we call ourselves CGI Partners rather than employees. We benefit from our collective success and actively shape our company’s strategy and direction.
Your work creates value. You’ll develop innovative solutions and build relationships with teammates and clients while accessing global capabilities to scale your ideas, embrace new opportunities, and benefit from expansive industry and technology expertise.
You’ll shape your career by joining a company built to grow and last. You’ll be supported by leaders who care about your health and well-being and provide you with opportunities to deepen your skills and broaden your horizons.
That same commitment to fairness extends to how we use technology. To support our recruitment team, AI tools may be used to help assess applications though they never replace human judgement. All hiring decisions remain entirely in the hands of our recruitment professionals.
Come join our team—one of the largest IT and business consulting services firms in the world.
