Senior AI Engineer; Freelance

📋 Tasks and responsibilities

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
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• 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%).

Role experience

• Senior Artificial Intelligence (AI) Engineer Most recent experience This year

Skills

• AI Azure Services Level Expert Most recent experience This year
• This includes; AI Foundry, AI Search, OpenAI, Document Intelligence
• Azure Level Expert Most recent experience This year
• Azure platform and infrastructure management
• Databricks Level Intermediate Most recent experience This year
• Generative AI Development Level Expert Most recent experience This year
• Infrastructure As Code (Terraform) Level Advanced Most recent experience This year
• Microsoft Power Platform Level Intermediate Most recent experience This year
• Python Level Advanced Most recent experience This year
• Solution Architecture Level Intermediate Most recent experience This year
• Spark Level Intermediate Most recent experience This year
• SQL Level Intermediate Most recent experience This year

Languages

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

You will be part of a growing Belgian SME where initiative and personal development are encouraged. We will provide you with an enjoyable work environment with fun colleagues. We will work out a career plan with you, with attention and a budget for extra education/certification. You can count on an attractive salary, supplemented with extra‑legal benefits, including a company car.
(Freelance is also possible)