Data Engineer - Data Governance Team

BEC Financial Technologies; København; Hybrid; DKK 750,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional development budget

Healthy lunch and fruit in canteen

Active staff associations: yoga, etc.

Flexible starting time

Health insurance

Referral bonus

Job summary

BEC Financial Technologies is seeking a Data Engineer for its Enterprise Data Management – Data Governance team in Denmark. You will shape data governance across BEC, improving data quality, lineage, and transparency for the largest Danish financial data ecosystem.

The role offers a hybrid work arrangement, with on-site collaboration encouraged and remote work possible up to 8 days per month. Your manager is Emilie Nikoline Andersen or provided line manager; Anna Barcińska will handle inquiries.

Qualifications

• Experience with data engineering, metadata management, data lineage, or related data management disciplines.
• Strong analytical skills across complex data landscapes spanning processes, applications, and data platforms.
• Fluent English communication, written and spoken.

Responsibilities

• Implement and maintain data quality measurements and controls for critical data assets.
• Configure and enhance Data Governance tooling to support target data architecture and operating model.
• Establish transparency of data assets, metadata, lineage, authoritative sources, and Critical Data Elements.
• Develop reporting and dashboards that provide visibility into data management, governance capabilities, adoption, and progress.
• Collaborate with Data Architects, Engineers, Product Teams, and Data Stewards to improve data quality, transparency, and trust.

Skills

Data engineering

Metadata management

Data lineage

Data quality

Tools

SQL

Job description

You will join our Enterprise Data Management – Data Governance team. The team is responsible for establishing and operationalizing Data Governance across BEC to ensure that data is managed as a trusted, compliant, and valuable asset. Working closely with BEC domains and member banks, we establish the frameworks, processes, and capabilities that enable high-quality, transparent, and well-governed data across the financial ecosystem. The Data Engineer role offers a unique opportunity to shape how data is understood, governed, and managed across one of the largest financial data ecosystems in Denmark. By improving transparency of data assets, data flows, metadata, lineage, and Critical Data Elements, you will help establish the technical foundations that support BEC's transition towards a modern target data architecture. At BEC, we prefer to collaborate often in the office, while also offering the flexibility to work remotely up to 8 days per month. Your direct manager will be Emilie Nikoline Andersen.

Primary task and responsibilities include:

• Implement and maintain data quality measurements and controls for critical data assets.
• Configure and enhance Data Governance tooling to support BEC's target data architecture and operating model.
• Establish transparency of data assets, metadata, lineage, authoritative sources, and Critical Data Elements across BEC platforms.
• Develop reporting and dashboards that provide BEC and member banks with visibility into data management and governance capabilities, adoption, and progress.
• Collaborate with Data Architects, Engineers, Product Teams, and Data Stewards to implement technical capabilities that improve data quality, transparency, and trust.

To succeed you will have:

• Experience working with data engineering, metadata management, data lineage, data quality, or related data management disciplines.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to navigate complex data landscapes spanning business processes, applications, and data platforms.
• Experience with SQL and data analysis, combined with an interest in Data Governance and Data Architecture. Ability to collaborate effectively with architects, engineers, product teams, and business stakeholders across organizational boundaries.
• A curious and proactive mindset with a desire to improve transparency, trust, and usability of data.
• Fluent English communication skills, both written and spoken.
• Experience leveraging M365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, or similar AI-assisted tools to improve productivity and technical delivery.

It’s nice-to-have:

• Experience implementing data quality measurements, controls, or monitoring solutions.
• Experience with metadata management, data lineage, Critical Data Elements, or authoritative source identification.
• Experience developing dashboards or reporting solutions that create transparency of data, data quality, or governance capabilities.

Be your best self with BEC’s benefits!

• Professional development budget
• Healthy, varied lunch and fruit in the canteen
• Active staff associations: yoga, cycling, go-karting, salsa dancing etc.
• Flexible starting time
• Health insurance
• Referral bonus

If you have any questions about the position, please contact Anna Barcińska, Talent attraction partner at [e-mail]. BEC is in the process of being acquired by our largest customer and co-owner, Nykredit, which is Denmark's largest mortgage provider and third-largest bank. We will become part of a new and larger organization called Nykredit Financial Technologies. In the transition phase, we are recruiting for roles that we expect to be highly needed in our future organization.