Job Title:
Business Intelligence Expert
Duration:
6+
months contract (Plus Extensions)
Location:
Brussels, Belgium (Onsite)
Role Overview:
- As a Business Intelligence Expert, you will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining modern, scalable data architectures and business intelligence solutions across cloud, on-premises, and hybrid environments. This role involves modernizing legacy data systems, driving data governance initiatives, and ensuring regulatory compliance, while actively supporting the department’s transition to a cloud-first strategy.
- You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to define best practices, guide data integration efforts, and ensure the quality, security, and accessibility of data assets. In addition to your technical expertise, you will provide mentorship to team members, lead change management activities, and contribute to the overall data strategy and architecture documentation.
Key Accountabilities:
- Creation and maintenance of Enterprise Data Warehouses (EDW) and complex Business Intelligence Solutions (Data Lakes / Data Lakehouse).
- Designing architectures both on the cloud and on premises (whether hosting or cloud on-premises) or a combination of both (hybrid).
- Design a modern, scalable data platform to replace a large legacy data system in a phased approach.
- Align architectural decisions with data governance policies and the department’s vision on cloudification.
- Design of data quality, audit, and health monitoring processes.
- Define best practices, standards, rules, policies, and review processes. Ensure regulatory compliance.
- Provide guidance and mentorship to data analysts, data engineers.
- Facilitate change management by guiding colleagues and users through the migration process.
- Document and maintain data architecture and data assets in detail; Elaboration of test programs.
- Assistance with deployment and configuration of the system.
- Participation in meetings with other project teams
Essential
Skills:
- Technical & Professional Expertise
- Experience in migrating legacy data systems to a modern data platform.
- Excellent knowledge of designing scalable and flexible modern data architectures.
- Excellent knowledge of business intelligence reporting tools.
- Strong understanding of cloud data architecture principles.
- Knowledge of database systems, both relational (PostgreSQL, Oracle) and non-relational (Elasticsearch, MongoDB).
- Experience with ETL/ELT processes, API integration, data ingestion, and transformation tools (DBT, Spark, Talend, Fabric, SAP DS).
- Proficiency in data pipeline orchestration tools (Airflow, Dagster).
- Knowledge of data governance frameworks and tools (DataHub, Open Metadata, Atlas, Collibra), data quality management, data security, access control, and regulatory compliance.
- Experience with DevOps practices and tools related to data pipelines, including CI/CD for data infrastructure.
- Excellent communication skills to articulate data architecture concepts to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Good knowledge of modelling tools.
- Non-Technical Skills
- Ability to participate in multilingual meetings.
- Ability to understand, speak, and write English and French.
- Experience in working in a team, good leadership, and conciliation skills.
- Ability to work with a high degree of rigor and method, and, more specifically, to follow naming conventions and coding standards.
- Ability to work in a multi-cultural environment, on a large project.
- Ability to write clear and structured technical documentation.
- Very good communication skills with technical and non-technical audiences.
- A high degree of discretion and integrity is required as the applications are managed and maintained in RTD.H.DEP.IT contains personal and confidential data.
