Senior Functional Data Analyst
Solliciteren
Plaats
Mechelen2800
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België
Contract
Vooltijds, Onbepaalde duurDatum gepubliceerd
2025-07-06Online to:
2025-09-04EUR 15.00 HOUR
Senior Functional Data Analyst
Are you passionate about driving value from data and turning it into actionable insights? Join our dynamic data consulting team as a
Senior Functional Data Analyst, where you will manage data needs for our clients across various industries. This role acts as a liaison between business users and technical teams, ensuring mutual understanding. The snr functional data analyst plays a critical role in ensuring that the right data projects are deployed and that data products are reliable, discoverable, and business-driven.
The ideal candidate is value-oriented, has strong analytical capabilities, and thrives in cross-functional environments. As you grow in this role, you will have the opportunity to evolve into a Data Product Owner, taking ownership of data product vision, strategy, and management stakeholder alignment.
Key Responsibilities
Don't hesitate to apply via the link below!
Senior Functional Data Analyst, where you will manage data needs for our clients across various industries. This role acts as a liaison between business users and technical teams, ensuring mutual understanding. The snr functional data analyst plays a critical role in ensuring that the right data projects are deployed and that data products are reliable, discoverable, and business-driven.
The ideal candidate is value-oriented, has strong analytical capabilities, and thrives in cross-functional environments. As you grow in this role, you will have the opportunity to evolve into a Data Product Owner, taking ownership of data product vision, strategy, and management stakeholder alignment.
Key Responsibilities
- Understand business needs and challenges, and identify how data can drive impactful solutions. Translate business problems into data-driven questions to gather and analyse data product requirements
- Identify the optimal data product solution that balances benefit and cost, ensuring it meets business needs effectively
- Collaborate closely with data experts (e.g., engineers, scientists, and insights analysts) to ensure data products are implemented, meet usability and scalability criteria, and deliver tangible business value
- Ensure the required source data is captured and meets quality standards by effectively managing data contracts with application owners and process experts
- Manage the backlog for a specific data domain, prioritizing tasks based on value and alignment with business goals
- Promote data democratization by enhancing data accessibility and usability through comprehensive documentation, internal marketing and training of the data product catalog
- Oversee the lifecycle and lineage of data products, ensuring they remain accurate, relevant, and aligned with business objectives
- At least 6 years of relevant experience in a similar role (e.g. data analyst, data product owner, …);
- Experienced in data analysis & interpretation (e.g. SQL/Python, familiar with BI tooling, …);
- Strong problem-solving skills and value-driven mindset to optimize cost-benefit balance of proposed data solutions;
- Effective stakeholder management: communicate seamlessly with both technical and non-technical audiences;
- Quick learner and pragmatic solution thinker: quickly grasp the business context, processes, and challenges, and effectively translate them into the right data product requirements;
- First experience in data management: data catalog mgt, data modelling, data quality assessments, source to target analysis, data contracts, etc.;
- Ability to understand the end-to-end (data) flow from source data to target data product, with the capacity to zoom in on granular details and zoom out to see the bigger picture;
- Experience working Agile methodologies (e.g., scrum, kanban), Agile tooling (e.g. JIRA, Azure DevOps) and documentation tooling (e.g. Confluence);
- Experience with data cataloging tooling (e.g. Collibra, Datahub) is a plus;
- Fluent in English, and preferably also Dutch.
- Exciting growth path: a clear opportunity to evolve into a data product owner
- Diverse client portfolio: work on end-to-end data product initiatives across industries, gaining exposure to cutting-edge projects
- Consulting edge: be part of a fast-growing consulting company that values innovation and problem-solving over rigid structures. Unlike internal roles, you will gain exposure to multiple organizations and industry best practices.
- Learning & development: continuous support for professional development, including training on data product management and emerging technologies.
- A collaborative environment with top-tier professionals to inspire and challenge you.
Don't hesitate to apply via the link below!