Become part of our team

Within the Data Office, you play a key role in establishing and driving modern, coherent, and data value-oriented data governance. You help the organization become more data-driven by guiding teams in adopting common standards, practices, and tools.

Key Responsibilities

• Define roles and responsibilities related to Data and promote operational governance.
• Lead the Data Governance & Data Quality team and report to the Chief Data Officer.
• Organize and prepare the quarterly Data Council to ensure strategic alignment and prioritization of data initiatives.
• Coordinate and support data stewards in developing the business glossary, metadata management, and continuous improvement of data quality.
• Lead the Data Community and act as an ambassador for the data culture within the organization.
• Oversee the implementation and maintenance of metadata management tools (catalogue, glossary, dictionary) and data quality tools (business rules, validation engines).
• Measure data quality according to European standards and coordinate the correction of inconsistencies.
• Define and promote standards, policies, and best practices in data management, while raising awareness of new regulatory frameworks such as the European Data Governance Act, the AI Act, and the European Health Data Space (EHDS).
• Collaborate with the BI and AI teams to ensure harmonized and semantically consistent data modelling.
• Contribute to improving data maturity through a data literacy program in collaboration with the Human Resources department.
• Participate in collaborative initiatives with external partners (HDA, IMA, BOSA, etc.).

Profile

• You hold a Master’s degree in Computer Science, Economics, or equivalent experience, ideally complemented by training in data management.
• You have at least 5 years of experience in data management or data governance within a large organization.
• You have basic knowledge of data quality management and metadata management tools such as Collibra or DataHub.
• You have a good understanding of data quality, metadata management, and privacy regulations (GDPR); experience with BPMN or conceptual modelling is considered an asset.
• You stand out through your analytical skills, ability to synthesize information, and results-oriented mindset.
• Thanks to your excellent communication and coaching skills, you can bring together cross-functional teams.
• You have a good command of French and a functional level of English.

Offer

You will have a varied, challenging, and socially relevant role in which you contribute to IT solutions that play an important role in society. Our slogan, “ICT for society,” reflects this perfectly.

Looking for a good work-life balance? Enjoy flexible working hours and benefit from our extensive remote working policy.

We offer broad internal and external training opportunities, allowing you to continuously strengthen both your technical and personal skills.

We provide a competitive salary package, complemented by fringe benefits such as hospitalization insurance, a supplementary pension plan, meal vouchers, eco vouchers, and more.

IT positions benefit from a mobility budget with the option of a company car and/or reimbursement of public transport costs. Under certain conditions, this budget can even be used to pay your rent or mortgage.

Through our “Benefits at Work” platform, you can enjoy attractive discounts on fashion, electronics, day trips, holiday accommodations, and more.

We pursue an equal opportunities policy and strongly value equal pay, among other principles.

When a researcher wants to understand why a disease affects one region more than another, when public authorities aim to measure the real impact of a prevention policy, or when a European project needs to combine data from several countries to advance research on a rare disease, reliable, secure and well-governed data is essential.

This is the mission of the Health Data Agency (HDA), the Belgian federal agency responsible for governing, securing and enabling access to health data for research, public policy and innovation.

Created in January 2024, the HDA is also the Belgian entry point for the European Health Data Space (EHDS), the European initiative that enables the secure use of health data across Member States.

The role

Are you looking for a position where your technical work has a concrete impact on public health?

Whether you are junior or experienced, we invite you to explore opportunities within our IT teams. Our needs evolve quickly, and we regularly recruit through spontaneous applications.

Teams you could join:

Application development: Software Engineer, Full-Stack Developer, Java Developer, Software Architect
Infrastructure: DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, Cloud Architect
Quality & testing: QA Engineer
Data warehouse: Data Engineer, ETL Developer, SAS Developer
Data science & AI: Data Scientist, MLOps Engineer, AI Engineer
Data governance: Data Manager, Data Steward, Data Governance Specialist
Coordination: Scrum Master, Product Owner, Functional Analyst
Architecture: Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect, Data Architect

Profile

You are curious, motivated, and enjoy working with diverse profiles. You want your work to have meaning and contribute to a high-impact public service project.

Whether you are a recent graduate or already have several years of experience, you will help build a young agency where today’s technical decisions will have a lasting impact in Belgium and across Europe.

What we are looking for

• Technical curiosity and willingness to learn
• Good command of French or Dutch, with the ability to work in English in a European context
• Team spirit and ability to collaborate with technical, legal and medical profiles
• Genuine interest in public health and public service challenges

Our technical environment

Our applications are mainly based on Java, Next.js and Python. The infrastructure relies on Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD and Git.

On the data side, our legacy data warehouse still partially runs on SAS, while gradually evolving towards more modern solutions. Python is used for data science and data engineering, while data governance and cataloguing are organised around Collibra.

We also work with key European health data standards and principles such as FAIR, HealthDCAT-AP, OMOP, FHIR, SNOMED, RDF, SPARQL, SHACL and graph databases.

What we offer

• Office located on Avenue Galilée in Brussels, close to Brussels-North station
• Hybrid working environment with 2–3 days on site depending on the team
• Competitive salary package, extra-legal benefits and flexible mobility budget

IT positions are recruited via our partner Smals.

Apply

Send us your CV along with a few lines about what motivates you via the “Contact us” form on our website.

Please specify the type of role you are interested in and your approximate level of experience.

We review all applications and will get back to you as soon as an opportunity matches your profile.

No need for a long motivation letter. A few honest lines are enough.