Functional Data Engineer - HQ Brussels

Over deze functie

**YOUR JOB IN A NUTSHELL**

The Data department builds and maintains both **future-ready and traditional data platforms**, tools, and services to ensure easy, secure data access. It empowers data consumers with self-service capabilities while upholding governance and quality standards.

The department delivers **scalable, compliant, and user-centric data solutions** to meet business needs. Within this framework, the Tribe designs and implements structured, optimized data stores for APIs, reporting, and analytics. They ensure compliance, security, and governance of data assets through modern data management practices, supported by high-quality documentation and tooling. Their mission is to enable reliable, scalable, and well-governed data consumption across the organization.

At BNP Paribas Fortis, you will **contribute to innovation by designing advanced data pipelines** and **infrastructure that power AI, real-time analytics, and strategic decision-making** as part of our digital transformation.

As a Data Engineer, you will address challenges such as **scalability, latency, and compliance, ensuring secure, high-quality data flows** while collaborating in Agile teams. Your work will unlock data-driven insights, combining technical excellence with regulatory requirements to shape the bank’s future.

The Tribe Data Services comprises over 160 colleagues, organized into more than 10 squads, primarily based in Brussels, with some team members working nearshore or offshore.

**AND IN DETAIL**

As a Functional Data Engineer, you will:

* **Build and maintain optimized data stores** by designing, developing, and ensuring well-structured, high-performance data assets (e.g., databases) tailored for APIs, reporting, analytics, and BI tools. * **Enable data-driven decision-making** by delivering reliable, accurate, and accessible data for business intelligence, reporting, and analysis services while maintaining related infrastructure. * **Collaborate with internal clients and teams** as a trusted partner, understanding stakeholder needs, guiding them on data solutions, and working cross-functionally while adhering to Tribe methodologies and standards. * **Ensure compliance and risk management** by strictly following data protection regulations (e.g., GDPR) and banking security policies, mitigating risks in data collection, processing, and storage to safeguard client and institutional data. * **Drive continuous improvement** by proactively identifying opportunities to enhance data quality, efficiency, and innovation—whether through new tools, automation, or process optimizations—while aligning with business and regulatory requirements. * **Collect the data from the source and design it into models** that will be used by developers. In this role you are the bridge between the business needs and the developers. You translate requests into models that will be interpreted by the developers. * **Uphold data quality and governance** by implementing validation rules, monitoring, and metadata management to maintain accuracy, consistency, and compliance. * **Support stakeholders and troubleshoot issues** by resolving data incidents (e.g., broken pipelines, latency problems) and partnering with analysts, product owners, or business teams to translate requirements into technical solutions—such as creating self-service datasets or optimizing queries for reporting tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau).

**WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER**

**SUSTAINABILITY AND IMPACT**

We strongly believe in the positive impact that the financial sector can have on the world. BNP Paribas Fortis offers sustainable and responsible investment products and solutions and encourages social entrepreneurship. Together with our customers, we are working towards a better future every day.

**DEVELOPMENT & CAREER PERSPECTIVES**

The departments that make up BNP Paribas Fortis cover a wide range of activities. You will therefore have many opportunities for “horizontal” and “vertical” career development.

**GOOD PLACE TO WORK**

You can become a member of internal networks made up of people who are united around common causes, commitments or passions.

**OUR ENGAGEMENT**

At BNP Paribas Fortis, we want to attract and retain all talent, whatever their gender, age, background or sexual orientation, and irrespective of whether they are living with a disability, as every person has their own experiences and their own identity. All of our full-time vacancies are also open to candidates wishing to work on an 80% or 90% full-time equivalent basis.