Data Manager & Governance - BNP Paribas Fortis

Detailed Responsibilities and Skills

Additional Responsibilities

• Justify data quality indicators to stakeholders.
• Align data definitions with Group standards and communicate changes.
• Organize regular tribe awareness sessions on Data-by-Design principles, including KYD, GDPR and BCBS 239.
• Coach tribe members and act as a data governance ambassador, explaining its importance and benefits.
• Advocate sustainable data management, including migration of tactical solutions to structured applications.
• Challenge non-compliant practices, including unmanaged Excel/EUC tools and ad-hoc data transfers.
• Serve as the tribe’s primary contact for all data-related queries.
• Collaborate with Data COE, Legal and IT to resolve data issues.
• Validate Data-by-Design features in new initiatives, Opus and projects.
• Validate DPIAs for high-risk processing in new projects.
• Validate encryption and CFT/MQ compliance for data transfers in new projects.
• Validate consent, retention and cleanup for personal data usage in new projects.
• Validate data inventories, dictionaries and quality controls in new projects.
• Validate EUC risk assessments and API governance, including ISO20022 compliance, in new projects.
• Participate in release Go/No-Go decisions and ensure data risks are addressed.
• Align APIs, data models and terminologies with Group standards, including EDM and API@Scale.
• Attend steering committees to represent data governance requirements.
• Participate in requirement reviews, platform Arbitration Committees and DHF Group Governance as end user and source provider with Data Group / DHF (Data Hub des Flux).
• Perform annual GDPR follow-up in Wikidata for application codes, data transfers and outgoing CFT/MQ flows.
• Attend monthly Data Managers’ Guild meetings and contribute to working groups.
• Support Data COE ad-hoc requests, including updates to Business Terms and Third-Party data in Wikidata.
• Act as SPOC for Data Processes in Agile squads, including the DAM referential.
• Ensure release planning addresses data impacts, including database changes and new transfers.
• Report to tribe leadership and the CDO via the Guild.
• Escalate critical data risks or non-compliance to the Data Office or Risk functions.

General skills

• Cross-functional stakeholder management: Stakeholder management (IT, Legal, Risk, Business).
• Coaching data culture: Coaching & advocacy for data culture.
• Analytical detailed mindset: Analytical mindset with attention to detail.
• Proactive problem solving: Proactive problem-solving and escalation.
• Fluent English proficiency: Fluent in English (Group language) + Dutch/French (local requirement).
• Fluent Dutch/French proficiency: Fluent in English (Group language) + Dutch/French (local requirement).
• Five years relevant experience: 5+ years in data management, governance, or risk reporting.
• Seven years overall experience: 7+ years overall experience with track record in banking environment/financial services
• Banking financial services experience: 7+ years overall experience with track record in banking environment/financial services
• Relevant higher education: Bachelor’s/Master’s in Finance, IT, Risk Management, or related fields.
• Collaborative working mindset: This role requires a proactive, collaborative, and analytical mindset to embed data governance principles into all processes, projects, and systems.
• Data governance certification: Certifications in data governance (e.g. CDMP, CIPP/E) or Agile/Scrum (a plus).
• Agile Scrum certification: Certifications in data governance (e.g. CDMP, CIPP/E) or Agile/Scrum (a plus).
• Language ambiguity: English is fluent; Dutch/French is the local language requirement, without clarification of whether one or both is required.
• Experience interpretation: 7+ years is the overall threshold, with a banking/financial-services track record; the document does not require seven sector-specific years.

Technical skills

• Data governance frameworks: Data governance frameworks (GDPR, BCBS 239, KYD).
• Data lineage expertise: Data lineage, dictionaries, and quality metrics.
• Risk Finance reporting: Risk/Finance reporting processes.
• API governance expertise: API governance (ISO20022, Swagger).
• Agile AWOW proficiency: Tools: Wikidata, EDM, Agile (AWOW).

Tools

• Wikidata tool proficiency: Tools: Wikidata, EDM, Agile (AWOW).
• EDM tool proficiency: Tools: Wikidata, EDM, Agile (AWOW).

Supplier submission and sourcing process

• Submit services through the Nétive e-Sourcing platform; proposals must align with the job requirements. All process steps are governed via Nétive.
• Copy External Staffing on all vacancy communication and keep them informed of supplier-initiated contacts.
• BNP Paribas Group employees are subject to bidder-relations instructions. Employees involved in supplier selection may not accept gifts, advantages or invitations of any value during the consultation. Non-compliant suppliers may be excluded.
• Disclose in the proposal any possible relationship between the supplier company and employees of the relevant BNP Paribas Group client entity, to avoid conflicts of interest.
• Treat Nétive information, consultation terms and all supplied information as strictly confidential and proprietary, for responding to the external-resource consultation only.
• Receipt of the consultation constitutes agreement not to disclose its information or the invitation to submit a candidate to third parties not directly involved in the proposal effort. Prior written consent is required to publicise potential-supplier status.
• BNP Paribas Group will give the same consideration to supplier information designated confidential and proprietary.
• Direct requisition questions only to cces@bnpparibasfortis.com; do not contact managers in parallel.
• External Staffing through Nétive is the sole counterpart for rate commitments; do not discuss rates with managers.
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• BNP Paribas Fortis embeds CSR in core business and organizational processes, including environmental responsibility, support and respect for internationally proclaimed human rights, and avoidance of complicity in human-rights abuse. Suppliers are urged to support these commitments.
• Submitting a proposal confirms that the supplier has read and accepted the BNP Paribas Fortis Code of Conduct for Suppliers and Vendors, available in the Nétive library and forming part of any subsequent agreement.
• No rate, work regime, remote-work arrangement, submission deadline or application questions are stated.
• Submission deadline defaults to current date (22/10/2026) plus seven days at 23:59 Brussels local time: 29/10/2026 23:59. Apply-before is the date of twelve hours earlier: 29/10/2026. These are processing defaults, not source-stated deadlines.