DELA Belgium operates a vertically integrated funeral services business—insurance, 130+ funeral homes, crematoria, and repatriation—serving roughly 1 in 10 Belgian deaths annually. The tech stack reveals a data-heavy organization: Azure cloud (Data Lake, Synapse, Data Factory), dbt pipelines, Databricks, and BI (Power BI) alongside Dynamics 365 and Salesforce. Active projects center on data governance, warehouse modernization (medallion/lakehouse architecture), and CI/CD automation, indicating operational maturity scaling beyond legacy systems.
DELA Belgium is a self-owned funeral services and insurance company founded in 1937, headquartered in Antwerp. The organization combines insurance products, a network of funeral homes, cremation facilities, and a repatriation center at Brussels Airport, supported by aftercare consultants who handle administrative support for bereaved families. With roughly 800 employees, DELA operates across Belgium and has received recognition for both service quality (voted best funeral insurance in Belgium for seven consecutive years) and workplace standards. The company is part of a broader cooperative structure and handles approximately 80% of all repatriations in Belgium.
DELA uses Dynamics 365, Salesforce, Power BI, SQL, Python, R, and an Azure-native data platform (Data Lake, Synapse, Data Factory, Databricks) with dbt for transformation and Azure DevOps for CI/CD.
Active initiatives include data governance, Power BI dashboard optimization, data warehouse redesign using medallion and lakehouse patterns, CI/CD pipeline automation via Azure DevOps, and talent acquisition expansion.
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