Data Governance Advisor

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Your mission consists out of 100% Business work, while remaining aligned with the Technology World.

What you will be doing

• You contribute to improving the Data Governance methodology by providing feedback from the field.
• You work with a Business Purpose, while breathing Data, Organization & People, Processes, and Technology.
• You understand and analyze the Business needs.
• You participate in the Data Office Academy to assist the Data Community (i.e. Data Owners, Data Stewards, Business and IT teams) by leveraging training and on-the-job coaching.
• You ensure adoption, deployment and monitor proper execution of the Data Governance methodology and its best practices.
• You continuously review and ensure transversality of the Business Glossary that defines the common and universal language within Elia, by formalizing the Business definitions of data and their purpose.
• You manage expectations from, and intensely collaborate and align with, multi-disciplinary stakeholders, departments and project teams.
• You excel at bringing people with various backgrounds together to converge You are the ambassador of One Team for the Customer.
• You always generate business value.

What you will NOT be doing

• You shall not act from an Ivory Tower.
• You shall not define Data Governance methodology but will influence its evolution by providing retrospective feedback from the fied.
• You don’t not make decisions for the Business but rather advise them with careful logic or showing your reasoning.
• You don’t manage the data community, nor engineering, nor development teams.
• You don’t define the details of the solutions architecture, nor the technical architecture, nor will you implement technical solutions.
• You don’t develop systems.

The candidate skills and experience

• As a candidate for this mission, you can demonstrate proven experience with similar projects, missions or employments, with skills that encompass:
• Master knowledge about and have an extensive experience of min. 4 years with these Data Management activities:
• Rapidly understand the Business of Elia as a Transmission System Operator and its underlying concepts. Previous experience related to the Business of “Utilities” or “Energy” and its underlying concepts is an asset.
• Excellent MS PowerPoint and presentation skills

As a candidate for this mission, you can demonstrate non-technical skills:

• Able to challenge your interlocutors by leveraging your rational thinking, and no non-sense philosophy.
• Continuously look at data in a transversal way (no siloes), across the entire Enterprise, to maximize coherence, reuse and adoption.
• Track record of driving results through continuous improvement
• Customer-oriented
• Your communication skills allow you to facilitate workshops where you can act as a leader when necessary as well as coaching people on the job
• Adapt your speech according to the maturity level of the other participants, accordingly you are a really good communicator and communicate effectively with team members from different backgrounds (business users, IT project leaders …)
• Able to listen, decide, convince and create adoption.
• Able to switch easily from a hands-on attitude to a supportive attitude and willing to coach and support Team Members and Data Stewards.
• Analytical approach to problem-solving and a track record of driving results through continuous improvement
• Team player breathing respect, open-mind, dare, challenge, innovation and one team for the Customer
• Product-oriented mindset

You will have the opportunity to be part of a fast-growing company with a clear vision and you will be supported by a team of experts who are ready to achieve the objectives together with you. You will work in a pleasant, positive atmosphere within a strong and professional company.

We offer you a training programme tailored to your own pace and ambitions.
You will receive a competitive salary package with a lot of extra legal benefits such as a company car, daily allowance, telephone contract, hospitalization insurance, ...

As a creative employee, we can also grant you copyright allowances.

But above all, we ensure that your future is secure and that you can work with the latest technologies.

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