Data Governance Specialist

Data Governance Specialist

For my international client based in Brussels, I am seeking a Data Governance Specialist to join the team on a contract assignment. This is a hybrid working model, largely remote but with a requirement to be on site in Brussels 5 days per month.

As a Data Governance Specialist your duties and responsibilities will include the following:

• Design of Data Quality and Health Monitoring processes.
• Data observability: implement tools and techniques to monitor data pipelines in real time. Develop dashboards and alerts for detecting anomalies, data drift, and pipeline failures to maintain robust data operations.
• Data catalogue / metadata management: establish and manage a comprehensive data catalogue to provide a centralised repository of metadata.
• (Personal) Data protection (GDPR): ensure compliance with GDPR and other data protection regulations. Develop policies and procedures for handling personal data, including consent management and data anonymisation.
• Data authorisation / access: design and implement data access control mechanisms. Develop attribute- or role-based access control policies and audit access logs.
• Data security: collaborate with the IT security team to develop and implement data security policies. Ensure data encryption and secure data storage.
• Data logging: establish data logging standards and practices to ensure comprehensive logging of data usage and changes. Implement log management solutions to facilitate auditing and compliance.
• AI ethics / fairness: develop frameworks and guidelines to ensure our AI applications are ethical and fair.
• AI Act compliance: stay updated on AI regulatory requirements and ensure organisational compliance with the AI Act and other relevant regulations.
• Set up a data lineage system to track the data flow from source to target.

The skills and experience required for this role.

• Bachelor Degree in IT and at least 9 years of professional experience in IT, of which 5 years must be in the specific domain performing tasks as described in the above section.
• Excellent experience in data governance, data management or related.
• Proficiency in data governance tools, data quality tools, data lineage tools and metadata management solutions.
• Familiarity with data security standards and technologies.
• Knowledge of GDPR, data protection laws, and AI regulations such as the AI Act.
• Extensive knowledge of data warehouse design & architecture.
• Extensive knowledge of SQL, PostgreSQL and NoSQL.
• Very good knowledge of ETL tools.
• Good knowledge of modelling tools.
• Very good knowledge of online analytical data processing (OLAP) and data mining tools.
• Experience in data quality, data control and monitoring techniques.
• Fluent in English at least at a level B2.