Data Steward 

Start Date: 25/05/2026

End Date: 31/12/2026

Location: Brussels

Languages: Dutch and/or French and English

Employment Type: Full-time

Role Summary:

The Data Steward is responsible for ensuring that business data, particularly risk and finance data, is properly defined, documented, governed, and used consistently across the organization. You will work closely with Business and IT teams to embed strong data governance practices, monitor and improve data quality, and contribute to the overall regulatory compliance and data maturity.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensure business-critical data, especially risk data used for regulatory and management reporting, is clearly defined, consistently used, and properly governed.
• Act as the custodian of business data definitions within assigned data domains, working closely with Data Owners to define, maintain, and document business concepts, critical data elements, business rules, and data quality requirements.
• Support compliance by ensuring data is accurate, complete, timely, and traceable from source systems through to risk and regulatory reports.
• Contribute to end-to-end data lineage documentation, ensuring transparency of data flows, and support internal and regulatory audits by providing clear explanations of data definitions, controls, and usage.
• Embed sustainable data governance practices that support sound decision-making and regulatory compliance through continuous interaction with stakeholders.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Solid understanding of data, particularly risk data, and how such data is used in management and regulatory reporting.
• Good grasp of core data governance concepts, including data ownership, stewardship, metadata management, critical data elements, data lineage, and data quality management.
• Familiarity with data governance tools, data catalogs, lineage tools, or business intelligence and reporting platforms is considered an asset.
• Strong analytical skills, structured, detail-oriented, and capable of working methodically with complex information, data sets, and documentation.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, able to explain data concepts, definitions, and issues to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Collaborative mindset, confidence to challenge constructively when data standards are not met, and ability to influence without direct hierarchical authority.
• Fluency in English is required. A strong knowledge of French and/or Dutch is also essential. Proficiency in both French and Dutch is considered a significant asset.