Business Data Engineer

Job Description

As a Business Data Engineer, you will provide technical support for Power BI and SharePoint within Boskalis Nederland. You will work closely with our Netherlands-based team and support us in developing, maintaining, and enhancing technical applications on both platforms. Our team gathers questions and digital requirements from across the organization and projects; you translate these into effective solutions in Power BI and SharePoint.

Your Responsibilities as Business Data Engineer are

Business Intelligence; Technical Skills

• Develop, maintain, and optimize dashboards and reports in Power BI.
• Build efficient and scalable data models tailored to business information needs.
• Write robust DAX formulas and Power Query transformations.
• Design dashboards with strong visualization and UX/UI principles, ensuring clarity, usability, and user-friendliness.
• Experience working with different data sources (SQL, Excel, SharePoint, APIs, cloud platforms).
• Improve data pipelines and ensure strong data quality. Proactively finding solutions for business questions into actionable BI solutions.
• Possessing the Microsoft Power BI certification; PL 300; Power BI Data Analyst Associate, is considered as an advantage.

SharePoint; Technical Skills: SharePoint functional

• Site architecture (tenant, sites, webs), modern pages, web parts.
• Lists & libraries: content types, site columns, view optimization, JSON column/row/form formatting.
• Permissions & governance: SharePoint groups vs. Entra ID roles, external sharing policies
• Automation with Power Automate (SharePoint triggers/actions, webhooks)

Knowledge from

• Build web parts and extensions (Application/Field/Command sets)
• Microsoft Graph endpoints (Sites/Drives/Lists/Users/Groups/Search)
• Backend integration patterns via Azure Functions

Your qualities

You can make your mark as a Business Data Engineer if you have:

• Proven expertise in Power BI is a requirement for this position; familiarity with SharePoint is considered an advantage.
• Experience with Agile and DevOps working methodologies is considered an advantage.
• A proactive and professional attitude, with the ability to initiate and maintain communication with the Information Advisors in the Netherlands.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, translate inquiries into reliable technical solutions.
• The working language in the team is Dutch; proficiency in English is required and knowledge of Dutch is considered a plus.

We offer

What you can expect

• Career opportunities: We challenge you every day to get better. Together we realize your full personal and professional career by creating development opportunities.
• Warm welcome: We warmly welcome our new colleagues, so they feel at home as soon as possible. During your online onboarding program, we give you all the ins and outs of Boskalis!
• Career development: Plenty of opportunities to realize your full potential. Challenge yourself with (online) courses in our Boskalis academy.

Extra information

• Your team: Combined connection between the Abu Dhabi IT and -BKN team, as well as our team in the Netherlands.
• Where you will work: You will be working from our Abu Dhabi office.
• Full/part-time job: The function of Business Data Engineer is a full-time position.
• Procedure: Apply easily by filling in the online application form. We conduct job interviews online and at the office. If we both think we are a good match after these interviews, we will make you a nice offer. Are you happy with that? Welcome aboard!