Data Engineer - INSIGHTS
STOW Group2 months ago
Lokeren, BelgiumMid Level / Senior
Responsibilities
- Build reliable ingestion and processing pipelines from operational databases, APIs, and event streams generated by warehouse software and robotic equipment.
- Design pipelines that handle event time, duplicates, late or missing events, idempotency, reconciliation, and replay.
- Preserve raw evidence and create versioned, tested datasets with executable calculation logic for INSIGHTS metrics.
- Make data quality, completeness, pipeline health, and known limitations observable.
- Package and deploy the data chain on on-premise infrastructure and contribute to upgrades, recovery, security, configuration, and cloud connectivity.
- Work with the architect on technology choices and interfaces, using focused experiments to resolve uncertainty.
- Investigate data discrepancies with domain experts and support customer pilots through working, explainable results.
Requirements
- 3–6 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, data-platform engineering, or backend software engineering with substantial data responsibilities.
- Strong Python and SQL skills, sound data modelling, and disciplined use of Git, tests, and CI/CD.
- Practical experience with event-driven or distributed data systems and operating pipelines beyond development environments.
- Comfort with Linux, containers, logs, networking, and diagnosing data-ingestion and data-trust issues.
- Ability to understand physical processes, learn unfamiliar domains, and translate ambiguous operational behavior into explicit engineering rules.
- Fluent professional English.
- Experience with industrial, IoT, edge, or on-premise systems is valuable but not mandatory.
Benefits
- Freshly cooked lunches in the company Bistro.
- Learning and development opportunities.
- Company car with fuel card or charging pass.
- Group and health insurance, meal vouchers, net allowances, and CAO90 bonus.
- Laptop and iPhone with subscription.
- 20 vacation days plus 12 additional days for working a full year on a 40-hour workweek instead of 38 hours, for 32 total leave days.
- Satellite office in Berchem, Antwerp.
- The role is based primarily on on-premise infrastructure in an international environment.
About STOW Group
STOW Group designs, manufactures, and installs warehouse racking and automated storage systems for logistics, retail, and industrial operators. Its portfolio spans pallet racking, small-goods racking, mezzanine structures, pallet shuttle systems, and integration software via its Movu Robotics brand. Founded in 1977 and headquartered in Spiere-Helkijn (Kortrijk), Belgium, the privately held company delivers turnkey storage and handling projects, including on-site commissioning and ERP/PLC/robot integrations.