Dates: 2026-11-16 - 2026-12-31
Arrangements: Full time; hybrid; at least twice per week at the Brussels office; teleworking must take place within Belgium.
The INAMI-RIZIV Data Office supports the transformation towards an organisation guided by data. It collaborates with Belgian and European health stakeholders to support public policies, improve quality of care and reinforce medical oversight. The team brings together data engineers, architects, analysts, AI experts, BI specialists, project managers and data governance and quality experts.
The consultant implements and coordinates data governance across INAMI services according to the Data Governance Manager's priorities. The assignment includes defining data steward and data owner roles, coaching them and animating the data steward community. It also covers the business glossary and data catalogue, metadata standards, data quality initiatives, policies, guidelines and data literacy.
The expert reports to the Data Governance Manager and works with business, BI, AI and data stewardship teams. Reference and master data management teams and the data validation team provide support. The full-time hybrid assignment runs from 16 November to 31 December 2026 in Brussels, with at least two office visits per week and telework restricted to Belgium. The vacancy requests extensive governance and data quality experience, with Dutch or French as a mother tongue, knowledge of the other national language and active English.
Responsibilities
- Implement data governance across INAMI services according to the Data Governance Manager's priorities.
- Define steward and owner roles and responsibilities.
- Coach data stewards and data owners.
- Animate the data steward community through meetings, action follow-up and good-practice sharing.
- Coordinate data catalogue population and business glossary maintenance.
- Ensure metadata quality, consistency and completeness using defined standards.
- Initiate and coordinate data steward work in data quality improvement projects, including rule definition, prioritisation, reporting and follow-up.
Must Have
- Master's degree or equivalent
- Ten years data experience
- Ten years organisational governance
- Basic SQL knowledge
- Data quality tooling knowledge
- GDPR regulatory knowledge
- Autonomous working ability
Nice to Have
- Databricks platform knowledge
Additional Responsibilities
- Contribute governance policies and guidelines for INAMI.
- Improve data maturity through a data literacy programme, including training selection and follow-up.
- Report to the Data Governance Manager.
- Collaborate with business, BI, AI and data stewardship teams.
- Work with reference/master data management and data validation teams.
- Master's degree in data, IT, economics, management or equivalent.
- 10 years in a data-related role such as governance, data quality, BI or data management.
- Ability to work autonomously.
- Motivation for the assignment.
- Good knowledge of the second national language in the profile; passive knowledge in the expertise section. Platform lists active Dutch and French. The exact level is inconsistent and must be clarified.
- Mother tongue Dutch or French; either language satisfies the native-language condition.
- Dutch: active knowledge in the platform language list; see the native-language alternative and second-language discrepancy.
- French: active knowledge in the platform language list; see the native-language alternative and second-language discrepancy.
- English: active knowledge.
- Change Management: 3 years; Junior platform level; most recent experience may be at any time.
- Project Management: 3 years; Junior platform level; most recent experience may be at any time.
- Commitment to work at the Brussels office at least twice per week.
- Commitment to telework only within Belgium.
Technical skills
- At least 10 years of hands-on data governance experience in a large organisation.
- Knowledge of GDPR (RGPD).
- Data Governance: 10 years; Expert platform level; most recent experience may be at any time.
- Data quality management: 10 years; Expert platform level; most recent experience may be at any time.
- Management of glossaries of business terms: 5 years; Confirmed platform level; most recent experience may be at any time.
- Metadata management: 5 years; Confirmed platform level; most recent experience may be at any time.
- Master Data Management: 3 years; Junior platform level; most recent experience may be at any time.
Tools
- Hands-on experience implementing and managing a data catalogue.
- Basic SQL knowledge; beginner level with 3 years of experience; platform level Junior, experience at any time.
- Working knowledge of data quality tools; no specific product is named.
- Working knowledge of data governance tools: 5 years; Confirmed platform level; most recent experience may be at any time.
- Knowledge of Databricks is an advantage. Preferred, not mandatory.