AI Data Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Netherlands.

📋 Description

• Design, develop, and manage end-to-end agentic workflows and process automations.

• Extract and prepare data from various systems including CRM, ticketing, finance, and product.

• Orchestrate Azure AI Foundry models within agentic frameworks using tool-calling and retrieval methods.

• Write results back into the systems of record.

• Implement evaluation, monitoring, and protective measures for production systems.

• Construct and maintain data pipelines and integrations.

• Develop baseline and impact measurement data, including metrics for hours saved and quality.

• Maintain and enhance Power BI reporting, semantic models, and reports.

• Assist business users in answering their own inquiries.

• Participate in discovery workshops and assess the technical feasibility of automation candidates.

• Determine whether each candidate should be custom-built, configured in Copilot Studio, addressed with SaaS-embedded AI, or omitted.

• Deliver 2–3 process automations in production within six months, complete with baselines and documented savings.

• Establish a structured BI support intake and create a measurement dashboard for monthly program reporting.

• Develop a reusable automation platform featuring shared pipeline patterns, evaluation harness, and monitoring.

• Contribute technical design to at least one larger process-reengineering project.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 4 years of experience building data pipelines and integrations in a production environment.

• Proficient in Python and/or C#.

• Strong skills in SQL and REST APIs.

• Experience with Azure Data Factory, Azure Functions, Blob Storage, and DuckDB.

• Hands-on experience creating agentic solutions utilizing LLM APIs such as Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI, Anthropic, or similar platforms.

• Familiarity with RAG, structured output, tool-calling, agentic frameworks, and evaluating model outputs.

• Daily usage of agentic coding tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Antigravity, GitHub Copilot, or similar tools.

• Capability to articulate where agentic coding tools enhance productivity and where they can lead to misconceptions.

• Working proficiency in Power BI, encompassing data modeling, DAX, and report design.

• Strong software engineering practices, including version control, code reviews, CI/CD, monitoring, and managing unattended systems.

• Excellent communication skills with non-technical colleagues.

• Ability to translate vague process descriptions into technical designs.

• Pragmatic mindset towards delivering functional 80% solutions and iterating on them.

• Capability to discern when automation is not the appropriate solution.

• Nice to have: experience in B2B SaaS operations.

• Nice to have: experience with Copilot Studio / Power Platform or extending SaaS-embedded AI functionalities.

• Nice to have: familiarity with privacy-aware data handling and GDPR.

• Nice to have: Dutch language proficiency if based in the Netherlands.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to join a pioneering position in a board-sponsored transformation program with significant budget and executive engagement.

• Unique visibility in an engineering role, with contributions measured by hours returned to colleagues and overall company results.

• Direct mentorship from a hands-on technical director.

• Influence as the first hire on tooling, architecture, and standards.

• Opportunities for personal and professional growth.

• Rewarding career paths and opportunities.