Freelance Data Engineer

Freelance Data Engineer | 6 Months

📍 Rotterdam area | Hybrid, 1-2 days onsite, 32-40 hours

💶 Circa €95-100/hour | Freelance (ZZP)

🚚 Leading European logistics and supply chain group

⏳ 6 months initial, strong extension potential

A large logistics operator is modernising its data platform to give real time visibility across warehousing, transport and fleet operations. You’ll join a small platform team building the pipelines that feed shipment tracking, capacity planning and customer reporting.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain batch and streaming pipelines in Databricks using PySpark and Delta Lake
• Ingest shipment and telematics events from Kafka and Azure Event Hubs into a medallion architecture
• Integrate data from WMS and TMS platforms (Blue Yonder, Manhattan) plus EDI messages from carriers
• Model curated layers with dbt for reporting in Power BI
• Orchestrate workloads with Azure Data Factory and Databricks Workflows
• Manage infrastructure with Terraform and CI/CD in Azure DevOps
• Apply governance and access control through Unity Catalog

What you’ll need

• Strong Python, PySpark and SQL
• Production experience with Databricks and Delta Lake on Azure
• Streaming experience with Kafka or Event Hubs
• dbt in a production setting
• Terraform and Git based CI/CD
• Fluent English | Dutch a plus, not essential

Nice to have: logistics, supply chain or transport data experience (WMS, TMS, EDI, telematics)