Data Advisor

Job description

As part of a product team, the Data Advisor is moving rocks to improve Data Management practices and to ease them. The Data Advisor breathes respect, open-mind, dare, challenge, innovation, customer-oriented and team spirit.

The Data Chapter is looking for Data Advisor Services who will work on Data Initiatives across the group. It is an opportunity to mark your signature in the corporate Data Management.

o     You contribute to improving the Data Governance methodology by providing feedback from the field.

o     You work with a Business Purpose, while breathing Data, Organization & People, Processes, and Technology.

o     You understand and analyze the Business needs.

o     You are looking for solutions that can quickly bring benefits and keep an eye on more-long terms solutions to ensure sustainability on mid-terms.

o     You leverage advising and training (i.e. Data Owners, Data Stewards, Business and IT teams) by and on-the-job coaching.

o     You continuously review and ensure transversality of the Business Glossary that defines the common and universal language within the organization, by formalizing the Business definitions of data and their purpose.

o     You manage expectations from, and intensely collaborate and align with, multi-disciplinary stakeholders, departments and product teams.

o     You excel at bringing people with various backgrounds together to converge.

o     You are the ambassador of One Team for the Customer.

o     You always generate business value

What you will NOT be doing

o     You shall not act from an Ivory Tower.

o     You shall not define Data Governance methodology but will influence its evolution by providing retrospective feedback from the field.

o     You don't make decisions for the Business but rather advise them with careful logic or showing your reasoning.

o     You don't manage the data community, nor engineering, nor development teams.

o     You don't define the details of the solutions architecture, nor the technical architecture, nor will you implement technical solutions.

o     You don't develop systems.

Requirements

Requirements & Qualifications:

As a candidate for this mission, you can demonstrate proven experience with similar projects, missions or employments, with skills that encompass:

o     Master knowledge about and have an experience of min. 4 years with these Data Management activities:

▪      Data Governance – Mandatory

▪      Data Quality Management – Mandatory

▪      Metadata Management – Mandatory

▪      Master Data Management – Mandatory

▪      Data Classification, Data Privacy, Data Security, CIA Measures – Optional

▪      Business Intelligence & Analytics – Optional

▪      Big data – Optional

▪      Data Modeling – Optional

▪      Data Integration & API – Optional

o     Rapidly understand the Business of our client and its underlying concepts. Previous experience related to the Business of “Utilities” or “Energy” and its underlying concepts is an asset.

Languages:

Language skills: fluent in English AND fluent in at least one of the following languages: Dutch, French or German