Senior Data Engineer (employee or freelance)
Software Engineering, Data Science
Brussels, Belgium
🚀 About the Role & Mission
At Qover, we are building the orchestration engine for the future of embedded insurance. Our data team operates with a pure engineering mindset and a strong focus on operational excellence—ensuring our international insurance programs run seamlessly on fresh, reliable data.
We are urgently seeking a Senior Data Engineer for a high-impact project. Ywill be in the driver’s seat: owning complex data financial reporting from prototyping directly into production, maintaining best-in-class engineering standards, and keeping our data architecture lean and scalable.
🛠️ The Tech Environment
- Data Warehouse: Google BigQuery
- Transformation & Ingestion: dbt, Airbyte
- Languages & Scripting: Python, SQL, Bash
- BI & Data Visualization: Looker
- DevOps & Quality: Git, Docker, CI/CD, Unit & Integration Testing
- AI-First Culture: We actively encourage leveraging AI agents to accelerate coding, testing, and deployment.
🔑 Key Responsibilities
1. Data Financial Reporting & Pipelines
- Build, maintain, and optimize robust dbt data pipelines that power the day-to-day operations of our embedded insurance programs.
- Architect flexible data models designed to handle the nuances of insurance operations with minimal rework as new products launch.
- Streamline BigQuery data structures to eliminate redundancy and prevent data fragmentation across systems.
2. Data Governance & Quality Assurance
- Implement automated quality checks, anomaly detection, unit tests, and integration testing.
- Maintain strict data security, privacy controls, clear data lineage, and precise access management for sensitive insurance and financial data.
3. Technical Leadership & Operations
- Partner with the broader data team to push our data warehouse architecture to the next level.
- Champion best practices through code reviews, technical sharing sessions, and documentation.
- Empower business stakeholders to become self-serve and data-savvy.
🎯 Your Profile
Must-Haves:
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in SQL and complex Data Modeling.
- Proven expertise in dbt and production Python.
- Strong background working with modern cloud platforms and serverless data warehouses (BigQuery highly preferred).
- Solid engineering practices: comfortable with Git, Bash, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, and writing unit/integration tests.
- Pragmatic mindset: You comfortably balance architectural elegance with speed of execution to hit fast-paced business deadlines.
- High degree of autonomy—able to thrive in dynamic environments with minimal supervision.
- Excellent communication skills; fluent in English.
Nice-to-Haves:
- Master’s degree in STEM.
- Professional working proficiency in Dutch.
- Direct experience in FinTech, InsurTech, or financial reporting systems.
What’s in it for you:
- A flexible work environment: up to three days remote per week and the ability to work from anywhere one month per year
- 28 days off (8 extra days on top of the 20 legal days)
- A nice working space in a great location in Brussels: Qover-dedicated space at WeWork (Rue du Commerce 31) with a large terrace to enjoy team events
- A positive company culture that values teamwork and taking initiative but also having fun, with regular social events
- A collaborative and communal environment where everyone is welcomed, valued and accepted regardless of their nationality, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability, philosophical or political views, etc.
- The chance to work among entrepreneurial people, giving you the opportunity to learn and have a real impact at one of Europe’s fastest-growing insurtechs