Senior Data Advisor (Engineer)

Job Title: Senior Data Advisor (Engineer)

Location: 1000 Brussel, Belgium

Languages Required: English + (Dutch or French or German)

Workload: 3 days per week onsite / hybrid

Duration: 7 months

Company/Mission Description:

Our client is a pivotal player in the Belgian, German, and European energy landscape, part of a group that is a European transmission system operator. The entity ensures the reliability and sustainability of electricity supply across Belgium and Germany. As part of the contingent workforce and internal staff, you will contribute to building a sustainable, green, and reliable energy infrastructure that promotes economic growth while reducing ecological impact.

Service Description:

The Group is transforming into a data-centric, data-driven company. As Data Advisors within the corporate Digital & Data department, the mission is to drive the entire organization to use data as an enabler to achieve strategic ambitions, innovation, transformation, and regulatory compliance. This role involves bridging the gap between business and data, working with subject matter experts to design solid data foundations (metadata, responsibilities, discoverability) that leverage the Data Platform.

As part of a product team, the Data Advisor will drive improvements in Data Management practices with values of respect, open-mindedness, daring, challenging, innovation, customer-focus, and team spirit. The role spans initiatives at both Belgian and German entities, offering a chance to leave a significant mark on corporate Data Management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Contribute to enhancing Data Governance methodology by providing field feedback.
• Work with the Business Purpose and connect Data, Organization & People, Processes, and Technology.
• Understand and analyze business needs.
• Seek both quick-benefit and sustainable medium-term data management solutions.
• Deliver advising and training to Data Owners, Data Stewards, Business, and IT teams, including on-the-job coaching.
• Continuously review and ensure the transversality of the Business Glossary, formalizing business definitions of data and their purpose.
• Manage expectations and collaborate intensely across multi-disciplinary stakeholders, departments, and product teams.
• Facilitate convergence among diverse stakeholders, embodying the ambassador role of “One Team for the Customer.”
• Always focus on generating business value.

What You Will NOT Do:

• Operate from an Ivory Tower or impose Data Governance methodology; influence it through practical feedback.
• Make business decisions but advise logically with clear reasoning.
• Manage data communities, engineering, or development teams.
• Define detailed solutions or technical architecture, nor implement or develop technical systems.

Requirements:

Language:

• Fluent spoken, written, and reading skills in English and either French or Dutch.

Technical Skills (Mandatory):

• Minimum 4 years experience in:
• Data Governance
• Data Quality Management
• Metadata Management
• Master Data Management

Technical Skills (Optional but Valuable):

• Data Classification, Data Privacy, Data Security, CIA Measures
• Business Intelligence & Analytics
• Big Data
• Data Modeling
• Data Integration & API

Domain Knowledge:

• Rapid understanding of the client’s business as a Transmission System Operator.
• Experience in Utilities or Energy sectors is a plus.

Soft Skills:

• Ability to challenge colleagues constructively with rational thinking and no-nonsense approach.
• Transversal data perspective, avoiding silos.
• Proven track record of achieving results via continuous improvement.
• Customer-oriented mindset.
• Analytical problem-solving skills and continuous improvement drive.
• Curiosity and willingness to learn and introduce creative, innovative solutions.
• Effective communication, facilitation of workshops, leadership where needed, and coaching abilities.
• Adapt communication style to varying maturity levels of participants; good communicator across diverse backgrounds (business users, IT leaders).
• Able to listen, decide, convince, and facilitate adoption.
• Comfortable switching between hands-on and supportive/coaching roles.
• Team player embodying respect, openness, daring, challenge, innovation, and unity for the customer.
• Product-oriented mindset.