Data Manager (H/F) Freelance

Cherry Pick; Brussel Hoofdstad; On-site; EUR 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Job summary

Cherry Pick in Belgium seeks a Freelance Data Advisor to provide operational data governance and data management guidance within product teams. You will align business definitions, clarify data ownership, and improve metadata and data quality across units.

Responsibilities include documenting data meanings, leading workshops with Data Owners/Stewards, and coaching teams as they adopt governance practices in daily operations. Experience in energy/utility sectors is a plus.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience in Data Governance, Data Quality Management, Metadata Management and Master Data Management.
• Ability to document data meanings and align definitions across teams.
• Proven track record leading workshops and cross-functional alignment.

Responsibilities

• Work with product teams to address immediate data quality issues and implement sustainable governance actions.
• Document data definitions and align business glossary across teams.
• Clarify data ownership and improve metadata discoverability.
• Facilitate workshops and coach Data Owners and Data Stewards across IT/business teams.
• Incorporate lessons into governance methodology and continuous improvements.

Skills

Data governance

Data management

Metadata management

Master data management

Workshop leadership

Cross-team collaboration

Tools

BI/Analytics tools

Big data tooling

Data modelling

Data integration

APIs

Job description

Freelance Data Advisor for Data Governance and Data Management

A company in Belgium’s energy sector is looking for a freelance Data Advisor to provide operational data governance and data management advice within product teams. You’ll help teams put governance into practice by aligning business definitions, clarifying data ownership, improving metadata and discoverability, and addressing data quality issues. You’ll help business stakeholders weigh their options and make decisions.

Responsibilities

• Work with product teams to understand business needs and recommend actions that address immediate issues, including data quality issues, and can be sustained over time.
• Work with subject matter experts to document what data means and how it is used in the business glossary, then align definitions across teams.
• Clarify data ownership and improve metadata so teams can find relevant data, understand it and know whom to contact.
• Facilitate workshops and coach Data Owners, Data Stewards, and business and IT teams as they adopt these practices in their day-to-day work.
• Feed lessons from product teams back into the data governance methodology to improve how it works in practice.

Required experience

• At least four years of hands-on data management experience covering all four required areas of Data Governance, Data Quality Management, Metadata Management and Master Data Management.
• Concrete examples from similar assignments showing what you delivered, how you worked across teams and how you helped teams adopt data management practices.
• Ability to lead workshops, tailor your communication to different levels of data maturity and build agreement across business and IT teams.

Additional skills and sector experience

• Familiarity with data classification, data privacy and security, and measures for confidentiality, integrity and availability is welcome. Business intelligence and analytics, big data, data modelling, data integration and APIs are also useful.
• Experience in energy or utilities is an advantage.