Data Modeler

Our organisation

**Ageas**is a listed international insurance Group with a heritage spanning of 200 years, offering Retail and Business customers Life and Non-Life insurance, and is also engaged in reinsurance activities. As an international insurance company, Ageas concentrates its activities in Europe and Asia through a combination of wholly owned subsidiaries and long-term partnerships with strong financial institutions and key distributors.Ageas ranks among the market leaders in the countries in which it operates. It represents a staff force of about 50,000 people and reported annual inflows of over EUR 17 billion in 2023. Ageas aims to be a Great place to Grow for all its people, while always staying true to its four values: care, share, deliver and dare. It fosters an inclusive culture, that values diversity and encourages everyone to get the best out of their talents.
- Ageas has been re-certified as **Top Employer** in **2024**.
- The vibrant Ageas** Corporate Centre** in Brussels is home to a variety of Group level functions including, amongst others, Risk, Finance, Legal & Compliance, Investor Relations, Human Resources, Strategy, Business Development and Corporate Communications. It sets out the long-term strategy for Ageas and coordinates numerous initiatives across the Group to help realise the strategic ambitions. The Corporate Centre also facilitates knowledge and skills sharing amongst its local operating entities and JV’s, creating strong connections and leveraging on local strengths. It represents the Ageas Group towards external parties, managing relations with analysts, retail and institutional investors, regulators, rating agencies and the media.

Your function
- The **Data Management team** strives to help the Corporate Centre get value from data through effective and efficient data management and governance. To achieve this objective, we are focusing on two core pillars**:Data Architecture** and **Data Governance**. We are therefore implementing a modern cloud-based data platform acting as the trusted and secure source of data for the Corporate Centre’s reporting and analytics needs. To strengthen the team, we are looking for a **Data Analyst & Modeller**,**who will be responsible for the implementation of new Data Platform use cases (and support existing ones).
- Your main responsibilities are:
**Data analysis**
- Lead discussions with business stakeholders to identify new use cases and shape the requirements to ensure desired business outcomes can be achieved in an efficient and sustainable way
- Develop a sound understanding of the target business domains
- Perform functional analysis (including identification, analysis and data profiling of the data sources, definition of business rules and transformations, definition of quality criteria, source-to-target mapping)
- Develop and maintain up-to-date documentation
- Prepare and execute test plans; supports the Ageas BI Centre and business users during UAT
- Analyse incidents and contribute to their resolution

**Data modelling**
- Understand and translate business needs into conceptual and logical data models according to company standards and guidelines (Data Vault and dimensional modelling), considering the required flexibility to cope with evolving needs
- Ensure consistency across data models, foster integration and reuse across departments, and ultimately avoid unnecessary data redundancies
- Propose improvements to the company’s data modelling approach (methodologies, standards, guidelines)
- Propose improvements to the company’s implemented data models and feeding pipelines to fight entropy and align with future needs
- Create data dictionaries and populate business glossary
- Work with AG IT (= IT supplier) for the creation of physical data models and data pipelines

**Data architecture**
- Lead discussions with Corporate Centre and AG IT architects to improve and extend the overall data platform architecture and infrastructure
- Lead discussions with architects and business stakeholders to improve and rationalise the Corporate Centre’s overall data architecture and infrastructure

**Profile**:

- Experience
- Data modelling: Data Vault (Linstedt) and dimensional (Kimball)
- Business, functional, and data analysis (incl. querying in SQL)
- Microsoft Azure
- Certification
- Data Vault 2.0 Practitioner
- Personal skills
- Drive, ownership, and proactivity
- High quality standards
- Collaborative mindset (within team and beyond)
- English: Fluent

We offer
- The possibility of (maximum 50%) home working;
- A dynamic, multicultural working environment;
- An interesting and extensive salary package (including meal vouchers, eco vouchers, hospitalization, disability and group insurance, additional child benefit, mobile allowance and intervention in the internet reimbursement,...);
- The possibility to optimise part of your salary package through a flexible income plan;
- A corporate culture where you are encouraged to share your v