Data Scientist - Senior

Freelancer Opportunity

Job title: AI Engineer/Agentic Developer/Data Scientist

Job location: Antwerp, Belgium

Job weekly hours: 40 hrs./week

Job duration: 12 months with possible extension

Start Date: ASAP

Role description:

We are looking for a hands-on AI Engineer with strong expertise in AIOps/MLOps and agentic development.

In this role, you will build production-ready AI solutions that are scalable, secure, and compliant, and you will take the technical lead on agent architectures.

Key responsibilities

AIOps/MLOps

Coach Data Scientists to move models from experiment to production-grade (packaging, reproducibility, CI/CD).

Design and build data and inference pipelines.

Implement MLOps best practices (containers, model registry, experiment tracking, rollback).

Set up observability (logs, metrics, traces, drift, SLOs).

Work according to compliance-by-design together with security, risk & compliance (EU AI Act).

Agentic development

Technical lead for agentic solutions (Azure AI Foundry, Copilot Studio).

Integrations with internal systems via function calling, RAG, orchestration.

Set up evaluation frameworks (test suites, red teaming, versioning).

Implement orchestration patterns (planning, retries, fallbacks).

Ensure selective autonomy and human-in-the-loop.

Engineering & Collaboration

Work in an agile team; manage the technical backlog.

Create technical documentation and runbooks.

Collaborate with partners; challenge designs; ensure integration into the target architecture.

PROFILE AND EXPERIENCE

Hands on AI/MLOps engineer with strong Python skills and experience production grade AI.

Combines deep engineering expertise with innovation and coaching.

Agentic development and orchestration.

Pragmatic, takes ownership, results driven.

Deep knowledge of AIOps/MLOps tooling: Azure DevOps, CI/CD, Docker, IaC (Terraform).

Knowledge of Azure ML, Azure OpenAI/AI Foundry, Azure AI Search.

Understanding of principles of security & governance (RBAC, secrets, network segmentation, privacy).

Fluent Dutch & English.

Required experience

Master’s degree in CS/AI/Engineering or equivalent experience.

3 to 5+ years of experience as an AI/ML/MLOps engineer.

Experience with agentic frameworks, function calling, RAG.

Languages

Dutch Very good knowledge, both speaking and writing

French Not applicable

English Very good knowledge, both speaking and writing

German Not applicable

Certificates

AZ- 900 - Azure Fundamentals

AZ-204 - Azure Developer Associate

DP-700 Fabric Data Engineer Associate

PL-300 Power BI Data Analyst Associate

ISTQB CTFL Certified Tester Foundation Level

After your application, we will verify your profile and get back to you within 3

working days.

If you’re successful, you can expect the following steps:

An initial conversation with our recruiter - Swati Kumari

Interview with the Hiring Manager and the team.

Final decision

About Proximus

We are Team Possible turning tech into opportunities.

We are driven by four core pillars: "I care," "I make a difference," "I radically simplify," and "I embrace the future". This means you'll join a team that genuinely cares for customers and colleagues, is empowered to make a real impact, strives to radically simplify complex challenges, and is always looking ahead to embrace the future of technology. We believe in an inclusive and safe environment where everyone can thrive, offering extensive career development resources, including access to over 5,000 training modules and a minimum of 5 days of training per year, to help you continuously learn, grow, and tackle bold challenges with us.