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Senior Collibra & Data Governance Practitioner

Location: Antwerpen

Key Responsibilities:

• Drive the Collibra POC:
  • Structure and execute functional testing of key Collibra capabilities, including metadata management, technical lineage, catalogue, governance workflows, and data quality integration.
  • Translate requirements into concrete test scenarios and rapidly turn findings into conclusions and recommendations.
  • Explain the platform to different tester populations, guide their testing, and help drive adoption.
  • Ensure the POC produces reusable insights and patterns for a potential industrialized setup.
• Translate and Challenge the Existing Landscape:
  • Rapidly understand existing capabilities through demos, documentation, and discussions with subject-matter experts.
  • Separate the underlying business or functional requirement from the way it is implemented today.
  • Map existing capabilities to Collibra and perform a pragmatic fit-gap analysis.
  • Apply an “adopt native before rebuild” mindset: favor standard Collibra capabilities and actively challenge unnecessary customization, complexity, and legacy ways of working.
  • Identify what should be adopted natively, configured, integrated, custom built, simplified, or retired.
• Shape the Future Setup:
  • Translate POC and fit-gap findings into recommendations for a simple, scalable, and maintainable Collibra setup.
  • Work with Data Governance, architecture, and engineering teams on integration, metadata ingestion, lineage, workflows, and operating model.
  • Contribute to a pragmatic transition approach while minimizing unnecessary customization and long-term technical debt.
• Build Internal Capability:
  • Transfer Collibra knowledge through hands-on collaboration, coaching, and remote training.
  • Help new team members progressively take ownership of platform configuration, integration, troubleshooting, evolution, and maintenance.
  • Contribute to establishing the foundations of a sustainable internal Collibra competence centre.

Required Profile:

• Senior hands-on Collibra practitioner with strong practical experience in enterprise implementations.
• Strong knowledge of metadata management, data catalogues, technical lineage, Data Governance, and enterprise data integration.
• Ability to rapidly understand unfamiliar existing solutions and translate them into underlying requirements and appropriate Collibra capabilities. 
• Strong standard-first/adopt-native mindset, with the confidence to challenge historical complexity and unnecessary customization and the pragmatism to make the project happen.
• Ability to combine hands-on execution with solution-level thinking and pragmatic decision-making.
• Strong facilitator and communicator, comfortable working with operational teams, engineers, Data Governance stakeholders, architects, and senior management.
• Autonomous, pragmatic, and able to deliver tangible results at pace in an evolving environment.
• Experience in large, complex, or regulated organizations is strongly preferred.
• Experience and/or knowledge of data architecture is a plus.