10+
Years
9
Companies
4
Certifications
Senior Data Engineer & Cloud Architect
YounessFAKLAK
Paris, France · Open to relocation worldwide
Data Engineer & Cloud Architect with 10+ years designing large-scale data platforms for leading energy, telecom and legal-tech groups. Specialized in AWS, Databricks, Spark, Kafka and cutting-edge RAG/GenAI architectures (LangChain, GPT-4, Qdrant). Arabic-speaking, French national, immediately available.
Data Engineer & Cloud Architect building what scales across energy, telecom & AI.
Over the past decade, I've architected and delivered data platforms processing billions of records daily for industry leaders in energy (EDF), telecom (Orange, Bouygues), legal-tech (LexisNexis), and innovation consulting (Davidson). My expertise spans the entire data lifecycle, from ingestion and streaming to ML pipelines and GenAI applications.
Now seeking roles where ambitious data and AI programs need senior execution: globally, including Europe, remote or hybrid setups, and the Gulf, where large-scale transformation aligns with how I like to build. Arabic-speaking, French national, immediately available.
Nationality
🇫🇷 French / 🇲🇦 Moroccan
Based in
Paris, France
Status
Immediately Available
Languages
Arabic · French · English
Experience
2012 to PresentSept. 2025 – Present
ENEDIS
France
Data Architect / Data Engineer
Design & industrialization of a customer contact Data Product across the full cloud & Big Data value chain.
- →Designed Lakehouse architecture Bronze/Silver/Gold (Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog)
- →Built Kafka streaming + PySpark pipelines, data quality rules, Power BI dashboards
- →Coordinated with data, architecture, and business teams
Apr. 2025 – Sept. 2025
DAVIDSON
France
Senior Data Engineer, RAG & GenAI
Internal R&D: industrialization of large-scale document processing using RAG/GenAI architectures.
- →Built end-to-end RAG pipeline: LangChain + Qdrant + GPT-4, semantic document indexing
- →NL mission search engine for HR/Sales, automated contract extraction, React UI
- →Containerized with Docker, FastAPI + MCP
Sept. 2022 – Apr. 2025
LEXISNEXIS
France
Data Architect / Senior AWS Data Engineer
Industrialized ML pipelines & cloud data architectures for AI-powered legal solutions on AWS.
- →Scalable AWS architectures for ML lifecycle (S3, EC2, Lambda, IAM, CloudWatch)
- →Automated ETL/ELT: 50%+ faster ML deployment, full GDPR compliance
- →Enhanced production monitoring & alerting
Aug. 2019 – Sept. 2022
BOUYGUES TELECOM
France
Big Data Architect & Tech Lead
Designed Big Data platform to collect & analyze telemetry data from millions of customer boxes for QoS/QoE monitoring.
- →Deployed Hadoop HDP 3.1.0 cluster for millions of Internet boxes (Wi-Fi, TV, VoIP)
- →Kafka + PySpark + Nifi pipeline: real-time QoS/QoE KPIs, Tableau/Power BI
Apr. 2016 – Jul. 2019
EDF
Trading Optimization
Tech Lead Big Data
Built from scratch a Big Data platform centralizing electricity production & consumption data as single source of truth.
- →Built 'DataStore' platform: single source of truth for 10+ internal projects
- →Spark Streaming, Nifi, Elasticsearch, HBase, AngularJS WebApp, Hadoop migration
Jul. 2015 – Apr. 2016
ORANGE
France
Data Engineer
User behavior analytics & marketing profiling at scale: 3 to 7 billion records/day.
- →Distributed pipeline (MapReduce, Hive, HBase) migrated from Ab Initio/Oracle to Hadoop HDP
May 2015 – Jun. 2015
ALDEBARAN ROBOTICS
Paris, France
R&D Software Engineer, Robotics & embedded UI
Configuration UI for Pepper humanoid robot: preferences, system updates, and app installation.
- →AngularJS front-end (Robots Gate) on embedded stack; refactored legacy UI, QA debugging tool
- →Agile/Scrum with robotics, backend, and UX teams
Jul. 2014 – Jan. 2015
GENESYS
Brest, France
Full-Stack Software Engineer, Test & quality platform
Web app to manage and visualize automated test results for Genesys products.
- →Full-stack AngularJS + Node.js, MongoDB; Bootstrap/jQuery UI in Agile/Scrum
Jul. 2012 – Dec. 2012
ECA ROBOTICS
Paris, France
Software Engineer, Android robotics control
Embedded touchscreen control of a military robot from an Android handset.
- →Java Android app, JAUS protocol to the robot's embedded system
Blueprints
The platforms I built, drawn the way I built them.
One architecture per significant role, each drawn from a project I actually delivered. Hover, tap or focus a component to see its role; click to pin it.
ENEDIS · Sept. 2025 – Present
Customer-contact Lakehouse
Databricks · Delta Lake · Kafka
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Hover, tap or focus a component to see its role.
Key decisions
- →Bronze/Silver/Gold medallion layers on Delta Lake: raw, cleaned and business-ready data are kept apart so each stage stays auditable.
- →Kafka streaming feeding PySpark pipelines instead of batch loads, to cover the full cloud and Big Data value chain of the product.
- →Data quality rules embedded in the pipelines, so the Data Product is industrialized rather than just delivered.
- →Unity Catalog for governance and Power BI as the exposure layer for business users.
Tech Stack
Architecture, cloud data platforms, streaming at scale, and production GenAI, with the engineering practices to ship and operate reliably.
★ Core · ◇ Strong
Architecture & data engineering
AI & GenAI
Cloud & lakehouse
Big data & streaming
Databases
BI & visualization
Languages & APIs
Web & application stack
DevOps & delivery
Credentials
MLPro: ML, Deep Learning & AI
MachineLearnia
AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate
Amazon Web Services
Certified Kafka Developer
Confluent
Certified Scrum Master
Scrum Alliance
Engineering Degree, Computer Science
ENIB, Brest, France
Software Craftsmanship Lead
SGCIB
Let's build together, worldwide.
Looking for a Senior Data Engineer or Cloud Architect? Immediately available, open to relocation globally, remote, hybrid, and on-site, with strong interest in the GCC and Europe.
Regions of interest
Europe & remote
Paris · France · EU · hybrid, remote & on-site
Qatar
Doha · QNB · Qatar Petroleum · Ooredoo
UAE
Dubai · ADNOC · Emirates · du (UAE telecom)
Saudi Arabia
Riyadh · NEOM · Aramco · STC · Vision 2030