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Fouad B.FB

Fouad B.

Senior Data Engineer

€600/day
Bezons, FR
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

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About Fouad

Experienced Data Engineer with over 8 years of expertise in implementing complex and scalable data solutions. I am involved in the entire data lifecycle: from modeling to governance, including pipeline development, data visualization, and business support.
I combine solid technical skills in Python/Java/Scala, Spark, Airflow, Kafka, with a strong functional understanding (Business Analysis, workshop facilitation, specification writing, data quality).
I have led projects for companies like Thales, Société Générale, and BMCE, and I support my clients with rigor, agility, and strategic vision.
  • Arabic

    Native or bilingual

  • French

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    Basic

Can work on-site
Bezons (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Veolia / France Eau / VEDIF
    Lead Data Engineer
    June 2025 - Today (1 year and 2 months)
    Context: Integrated into the Transverse IT unit, I contributed to the implementation of a Datahub by leading the implementation of application scheduling. My role was to provide expertise in workflow orchestration to support the migration of Control M jobs to Apache Airflow as part of the data processing infrastructure modernization.
    • Analyze the existing Control-M setup: inventory of jobs, dependencies, and schedules.
    • Design the target architecture under Apache Airflow, leveraging the existing setup.
    • Migrate workflows from Control-M to Airflow.
    • Ensure service continuity during the transition phase.
    • Write project documentation (functional specifications, installation, operation).
    • Conduct a complete audit of the existing system and define a detailed migration plan.
    • Develop and validate functional Airflow DAGs.
    • Develop and execute a testing and acceptance plan.
    • Ensure knowledge transfer and handover to internal teams.
  • Thales
    Lead data | Proxy PO Data
    TECH
    November 2023 - May 2025 (1 year and 6 months)
    Vélizy-Villacoublay, France
    Context: Assisting managers of three projects within the Engineering, Quality, and Finance entities. By proposing modern data architecture solutions, help data engineers adapt to complexity. Collaborating with data governance teams, the objective is to align the company with the group's policy.

    Responsibilities:
    • Facilitate workshops with VPs and FDMs to define operational processes for the domains (Engineering, Quality, Finance) and data flow.
    • Assist the Functional Data Manager in defining Business Objects and the roadmap for data ingestion.
    • Establish specifications for data flows from source systems to the Data Warehouse (DWH).
    • Manage the Backlog in collaboration with the Scrum Master to develop user stories and plan sprints, in terms of requirements and deliverables.
    • Collaborate with the tech leads of each squad to resolve issues and ensure milestone delivery.
    • Implement and oversee the data quality process in cooperation with various stakeholders (data governance, architects, Business managers).
    • Write test scenarios in Jira to validate the functionality of each sprint.
    • Provide support to end-users for delivered increments.
    • Document dashboards functionally with a HowTo approach to clarify their usage.

    Deliverables:
    • Specifications, documentation, test cases, code, code review
    • Writing user stories, backlog refinement, and roadmap prioritization

    Technical Environment:
    • Data Modeling, databases, DataMarts, Data Governance, Data Security, DBT, BI tools, ETL Solutions, Data Science, DataOps, MLOps, Figma, MagicDraw UML
    • Talend, DataGalaxy, SSAS, Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Ms SQL Server, MinIO, Kafka, Trino, ELK
    Microsoft Azure SQL DBT Microsoft Power BI ETL
  • Société Générale Securities Services
    Senior Data Engineer PYTHON/JAVA FULL STACK -AIRFLOW-
    BANKING AND INSURANCE
    April 2022 - July 2023 (1 year and 3 months)
    Nanterre, France
    Context 1 (SGSS entity): Migration of valuation flows from dollar Universe to Airflow.

    • Design and development of a core orchestration framework based on Airflow and Java Spring layers.
    • Adaptation and migration of current processes.
    • Implementation and development of functional business rules.
    • Integration of various internal SG frameworks (authentication, authorization management, monitoring, workflow...).
    • Implementation of CI/CD pipelines across all features.
    • Setting up automated tests and adhering to Craft development practices (TDD, BDD, Clean code...) during implementations.

    Context 2 (ITIM entity): RAF for the Migration of BDH collections (Hortonworks platform (old platform) + ELK cluster) to LUCID / Evolutions (Cloudera platform (new platform)).
    • Take over scripts for accessing AWS S3 buckets or APIs from BDH to implement them on Lucid.
    • Implementation of the solution on LUCID: Development and delivery of the solution.
    • Take over Streaming treatments developed by other services to integrate them into our standardized Streaming chain / Finalize the migration of other streaming chains.
    • Contacting issuers for synchronization on the management switchovers to Kafka LUCID and other components. Maintain a regular progress update with the CLK entity manager and Big Data architectures.

    Deliverables:
    Description of deliverables: code, documentation, code review
    Collection components (scripting, ...)
    Operating procedures for collection services
    Acceptance certificates for collection services
    Progress reports for services migrated to Lucid
    Technical Environment:
    Java, JPA, Spring
    Hive, Jenkins, Kafka, Scala, Scripting, DBT, Microsoft Fabric
    AirFlow/Python/FastAPI – JSON - POSTMAN - Jenkins/git/sonar - Postgre/Oracle/SQL - MongoDB
    Docker/Kubernetes - Elastic Kebana - SOAP and REST - Swagger
    Python

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Education

  • Fundamental License: Information Systems Engineering
    Université Ibn Tofail
    2016
  • Master: Software Engineering for the CLOUD
    Université Ibn Tofail
    2019
    formation de deux ans, spécialisé dans le développement de logiciels de traitement big data et l’implémentation des solutions dans le cloud.

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