NextLink is having an existing position as a Senior Functional Data Analyst in Brussels area, Belgium.
General information:
- Start date: ASAP
- Duration: 12 months
- Workload: full time 2 days onsite
- Work location: Brussels area, Belgium
Description :
Data analysis is becoming more and more important in today’s world of business decision making. Who hasn’t heard about Advanced Analytics and Machine learning… In order to be fully prepared for tomorrow’s challenges, our Data Management Team has put in place a new platform, new tools and new detailed and aggregated data for our business clients to support them in their analysis. The department IS Corporate Clients is working closely with the Data Management Team and with the HR-department to combine business concepts and develop well reflected systems to respond a maximum to reporting needs. Our department is looking for a senior Functional Data Analyst that will support the project teams in the Data analysis and Data modelling tasks of several projects.
He/She will support the project teams in following activities, and/or perform activities him/her self : Data analysis
• Organization and moderating workshops with the business client in order to define their business needs.
• Analyse requests for new datasets (or new reports requiring new data), from business requirements gathering/clarification to functional analysis (including definition/clarification of business rules, data profiling, quality criteria, security rules, and source-to-target mapping)
• Build detailed design of solution for data ingestion, storage, transformation, distribution and consumption and for model automation, in line with business requirements.
• Designing the different data patrimonies and keep it coherent in the time Data modelling
• Understand and translate business needs into conceptual and logical data models according to company standards and guidelines
• Explaining the functional contents of the projects to the development team
• Ensure consistency across data models and foster integration/reuse across the departments of the organization
• Understand the architecture, infrastructure, security requirements and set-up, data platform structure and organization, as well as the interfaces to data sources, the tools supporting automated data loads Support
• Support the colleagues of the HR department in the use of the new Data platform in the Cloud.).
Profile:
· Language : English + dutch + French fluent
· Minimum 5 years of experience
· University Graduate or Professional bachelor Ideally University graduate “Master” in information Science, Management or Industrial Engineer.
· Business and functional analysis
· Data modelling
· Combination of technical training plus 2 years’ experience and knowledge of data application development and/or management required.
· Good computer skills, proficient with Microsoft office applications including Microsoft BI Tools.
· Data querying (SQL) and analysis
· Experience in data modelling
· Understanding development life cycles
· Data management and governance
Bonus :
• Experience in functional Enterprise modelling and Architecture
• Knowledge of HR processes
• Business Process Analysis
• Thorough understanding of corporate and industry practices, processes, standards etc. and their impact on project activities
• MS Azure cloud and data (architecture + hands-on experience)
• DataGalaxy (or similar)
• Experience in functional Enterprise modelling and Architecture(trough projects)
• Scheduling principles and techniques
• Data modelling tools like Erwin
Soft Skills :
• Independent and team player
• Structured and Pro-active
• Flexible
• Pragmatic
• Hands on and problem solver
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Stress resistant
• Quality driven