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Data Governance Consultant or Manager

  • Hybrid
    • Belgium/Estonia/Netherlands, Vlaams Gewest, Belgium
  • Sparkle NV

Job description

As a Data Governance Consultant or Manager (depending on your experience) you combine your business knowledge, functional and technical skills to support our customers in their data management and data governance journey. You take on projects of varying complexity – depending on your knowledge, experience, and ambition - ranging from short term assessments, proof-of-concepts and scoping studies, over longer-term tailored Data Governance initiatives and solution implementations in the field of Data Governance, Metadata Management and/or Data Quality. You guide and support our customers in their Data Governance & Data Management needs.

Job requirements

Your background: 

  • You have obtained a 1st or extensive experience in one of the following data management disciplines: data governance, data quality, data architecture, data modeling, metadata management, reference & master data, privacy & security, BI & data science
  • Data management and governance knowledge: you understand data governance principles, policies, and best practices. You are familiar with data quality, data lineage and metadata management
  • Critical thinking: ability to analyze complex data scenarios and identify gaps or issues
  • Problem solving: address data-related challenges and propose effective solutions

Considered as an asset:

  • Knowledge of the DAMA-DMBOK;
  • Expertise in more than one of the mentioned data management disciplines;
  • For senior consultants: participated in business development activities and proposal writing;
  • Involvement in tool selection OR experience working as a key/end-user in a tool for one or more of the following: metadata management, data quality management, data governance management, master/reference data management, data modelling.
  • You combine excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills;
  • You are at least bilingual: English and Dutch or French.

This is what we can offer you when you become a Sparkleer:

  • A monthly compensation that matches your experience & potential growth
  • Meal allowance, net allowance, cellphone subscription
  • DKV hospitality insurance & a pension plan
  • 20 legal holidays + 12 ADV holidays
  • Growth opportunities. Sparkle helps you with this through our training opportunities. Who knows, maybe one day you will become a Domain Lead
  • Very good working atmosphere. With regular drinks & dinner, the best team activities and an informal department where humor is number 1
  • Flat organisation structure
  • A brand new laptop
  • A mobility budget so you can choose how you come to the office or travel to your client
  • Hybrid way of working. No rules on coming to the office, so that means time for your children, partner or dog/cat/parrot/bunny/...

We are always looking for talent in Belgium, Estonia or The Netherlands. If you cannot find a suitable job opening, don’t hesitate to send your spontaneous application to hello@sparkle.consulting if you think you there will be a mutual match! At Sparkle, there are several growth opportunities, both towards being an expert as well as becoming a manager (of a project, program, team) or developing your sales or marketing skills.


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