Senior AI Engineer

Our client is an institution that works towards the stability of the financial system and the reliability of the institutions operating within it. They contribute to creating a climate of confidence conducive to the well-being of all.

Its missions:

• Maintain price stability in the Eurosystem
• Oversee the Belgian financial system
• Ensure the security of banknotes and the efficiency of payment systems
• Provide economic and financial data and analyses

Mission Description

Senior AI engineer

• Technical lead of a multidisciplinary team to design, deliver, and operationalize AI solutions that are simple, standard, secure, and cost-effective.
• Translate business needs into AI applications using Azure AI Services, Databricks, and Power Platform to ensure measurable business value, leveraging reusable reference architectures and low-code.

Concrete tasks:

• Translate business use-cases into optimal application solution architectures prioritizing simplicity, security, standardization and re-use, in collaboration with architects and subject matter experts
• Analyse, design and develop solutions based on Azure AI services. Coordinate technical implementation of those solutions. Coach and advise co-workers on a technical level
• Define and maintain reference architectures and coding standards
• Deployment and maintenance of infrastructure in a structured and standardized way via re-usable modules

Functional skills

• Analytical, problem solver, solution minded. Fast learner and eager to grow
• Team management and spirit. Good communication skills
• Pro-active and entrepreneurial
• Business case development, estimating the technical cost (infra and mandays) for development and maintenance of AI solutions
• Working methodologies such as Scrum/Kanban, test-driven development and continuous integration

Technical skills

• Technical knowledge of the Azure cloud platform (incl. networking and security) and experience implementing solutions using Azure AI services: Azure Document Intelligence, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search and Azure AI Foundry
• Expertise in Generative AI development and common building blocks, such as LLMs, RAG, prompt engineering, chunking & indexing, and search & ranking techniques
• End-to-end development of both back- and Front End (user interfaces & user experience) of use cases
• High level knowledge of the Power Platform, including Power Automate, Power Apps (Canvas and model-Driven Apps) and Embedded AI services
• High level knowledge of Databricks, including Mosaic AI, data pipelines using PySpark and SQL, orchestration of data pipelines using Airflow
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code through Terraform for the deployment of Azure infrastructure
• Solution architecture: comprehensive overview, insight to select the right technology per component, with a trade-off between best fit and integration needs

Possibility to work remotely (up to 50%).

Roles

• Senior Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer

Most recent experience This year

Skills

• AI Azure Services: minimum 8 years experience with most recent experience in
• This includes; AI Foundry, AI Search, OpenAI, Document Intelligence
• Azure: minimum 8 years experience with most recent experience in
• Azure platform and infrastructure management
• Databricks: minimum 3 years experience with most recent experience in
• Generative AI Development: minimum 8 years experience with most recent experience in
• Infrastructure As Code (Terraform): minimum 5 years experience with most recent experience in
• Microsoft Power Platform: minimum 3 years experience with most recent experience in
• Pytho: minimum 5 years experience with most recent experience in
• Solution Architecture: minimum 3 years experience with most recent experience in
• Spark: minimum 3 years experience with most recent experience in
• SQL: minimum 3 years experience with most recent experience in

Languages

• Dutch or French Nice to have
• English Full professional proficiency