Senior Data Functional Analyst

Project Duration: 28/07/2025 – 31/12/2025

Location: Brussels

Language Proficiency: Dutch and/or French, plus English

Application Deadline: 22/07/2025

Role & Responsibilities:

• Engage regularly with business stakeholders, data teams, and subject matter experts to understand business needs.
• Identify, assess, and comprehend business processes, operational, and analytics data flows.
• Translate business needs into data and technical requirements.
• Design data architecture and validate data models in collaboration with Data Architects.
• Establish functional design for developments in collaboration with the Data Governance team, BI team Technical Leads, and ICT teams.
• Ensure alignment with GDPR and security requirements in collaboration with the DPO.
• Actively participate in testing developed data products.
• Inform and train users post-delivery and maintain liaison with end users for continuous improvement of data products.

Technical Skills Required:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of practical and professional experience in data functional analysis.
• Experience in data modeling (conceptual and logical) within a data warehouse context, preferably following the Kimball approach.
• Experience in designing and analyzing data flows.
• Prior experience as a data engineer is a plus.

Profile:

• Excellent communication skills in both national languages (French & Dutch: B2+ minimum).
• Strong presentation skills.
• Strong conceptual and business understanding.
• Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions.
• Proactive attitude with a strong sense of ownership and autonomy.
• Strong problem-solving skills with a pragmatic and delivery-focused approach.
• Ability to develop relationships with business and data stakeholders, fostering trust and buy-in through active listening and assertiveness.
• Team player with the ability to work collaboratively within a transversal organization.
• Perseverance, stress resistance, and flexibility.
• Open-minded and eager to learn.

Current Project:

As a Senior Data Functional Analyst, you will join a project aimed at improving the exchange of health and disability-related information between organizations for analytics needs. The objectives include increasing data flow frequency and improving data quality. You will help set up a common modern data platform, define data quality processes, detailed controls, and technical specifications needed for developing a data quality validation engine.

Skills:

• Data Architecture
• Data Functional Analysis
• Data Modeling
• Data Quality Monitoring
• Master Data Management
• SQL