Business Intelligence Specialist

Greetings from Sloka IT Solutions.

Title - Expert Business Intelligence

Language - English, French or Dutch

Location - 1030 Bruxelles

Duration - 12+ months

Workplace type - Hybrid

Experience - 10+ years

Description:

• The IT department of Belgium's FPS Home Affairs is looking for a highly experienced engineer to contribute to a high-level and sensitive data intelligence project. The ideal candidate combines deep technical mastery of both Linux, Windows and Docker system environments with advanced expertise in end-to-end Business Intelligence reporting and the Elastic (ELK) stack. This person must demonstrate exceptional precision, discretion, and analytical creativity in handling mission-critical data pipelines and secure infrastructures.
• Expert-level proficiency in both Linux (Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL-based) and Windows Server ecosystems is required, including Docker VM's set-up and system-level troubleshooting, performance optimization, and cross-platform integration.
• The mission focuses on designing and maintaining robust data pipelines, monitoring frameworks and analytics capabilities with strong requirements in terms of security, traceability and compliance.

Mission Objectives:

• Strengthen data observability and monitoring capabilities
• Design and optimize end-to-end ELK-based architectures
• Improve data governance, auditability and reporting reliability
• Support advanced analytics and anomaly detection use cases

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain ELK pipelines (Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana)
• Develop advanced dashboards and reporting solutions aligned with business KPIs
• Implement data transformation, enrichment and quality controls
• Configure alerting, monitoring and anomaly detection mechanisms
• Integrate ELK stack with BI tools (Power BI, Grafana, Tableau, etc.)
• Ensure data security and access control (encryption, secrets management)
• Optimize performance, scalability and reliability of data platforms
• Produce technical documentation and audit-compliant deliverable

Requirements:

Technical expertise:

• Deep expertise in ELK Stack :
• Logstash (advanced pipeline design, scripting, parsing)
• Elasticsearch (cluster architecture, indexing, aggregations, tuning)
• Kibana (dashboards, visualization, alerting)
• Strong experience in Business Intelligence and data reporting architectures
• Advanced knowledge of Linux, Windows Server and Docker environments
• Solid understanding of data security principles (encryption, access control, secrets management)
• Scripting skills (Python, Ruby or Bash)
• Experience with data modelling, analytics and pattern detection
• Integration experience with external systems and APIs
• Minimum 10 years of experience in:
• Data engineering
• Observability / monitoring systems
• Business Intelligence platforms
• Proven experience in building scalable, secure and high-availability data solutions
• Experience in regulated or high-sensitivity environments is a strong asset
• Soft skills:
• Strong analytical and problem-solving mindset
• High level of precision and confidentiality
• Ability to work autonomously in complex environments
• Results-driven and quality-oriented

Skills:

• BI Level Expert Most recent experience Any time
• Docker Level Expert Most recent experience Any time
• ELK tools Level Expert Most recent experience Any time
• Linux Level Expert Most recent experience Any time
• Python Level Expert Most recent experience Any time
• Ruby Level Expert Most recent experience Any time
• Windows Server Level Expert Most recent experience Any time

Languages:

• Dutch or French Level Native
• English Level Active knowledge

If interested, kindly share your updated CV to arulkiruthiga@sloka.eu