BI Solution Designer - Smart Data Factory

Location: Brussels

Duration: 1-year contract with the possibility of extension

Remote Work: 2 days of remote work per week

Preferred Start Date: Second week of September

Purpose:

We are looking for a BI Solution Designer to join the Smart Data Factory (SmDF) team. This role is crucial in bridging the gap between business needs and technical solutions, designing data models and BI solutions that enable smarter, faster decision-making.

Responsibilities:

• Engage with business stakeholders to capture, refine, and document BI requirements in a clear and actionable format.
• Serve as the key point of contact between business teams and technical developers (Data/Analytics Engineers, BI Developers).
• Design high-quality conceptual data models tailored for analytics, such as star and snowflake schemas.
• Develop and maintain a BI solution blueprint outlining data sources, transformation processes, and visualization specifications.
• Collaborate with Data/Analytics Engineers to ensure data pipelines deliver accurate, well-structured, and timely datasets.
• Work closely with BI Developers to ensure dashboards and reports align with agreed-upon designs and standards.
• Actively participate in Agile ceremonies—including daily standups, sprint planning, backlog refinement, and retrospectives—while contributing to the prioritization of BI deliverables.
• Review and validate BI solutions to confirm they meet business requirements and deliver accuracy, usability, and optimal performance.

Soft Skills:

• Alignment with values of respect, openness, and reliability.
• Driven with a high sense of ownership.
• Active collaboration and mentoring spirit within the team.
• Ability to communicate concepts and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences with simple and appropriate language.
• Active listening aptitudes.
• Ability to manage expectations in collaboration with the program manager.

Data Architecture Skills:

• Strong ability to understand business needs and translate them into BI/data requirements.
• Ability to document BI solution designs, data models, and business definitions for technical and business audiences.
• Strong knowledge of reporting and data visualization design best practices.
• Strong knowledge of dimensional modelling.
• Strong data exploration, profiling, and analysis skills.
• Extensive experience designing scalable, governed BI datasets and solutions using Power BI.
• Analytical thinking with problem-solving orientation.

Desirable Skills:

• Knowledge of Data Lakehouse and Medallion Architecture best practices for Azure Databricks, including enforcing governance with Unity Catalog.
• Knowledge of dbt.
• Experience with Data Governance processes and tools.
• Knowledge of Agile practices (Scrum).
• Previous experience in the Energy sector.
• Previous experience with ESG reporting.

Expertise:

Demonstrated success in delivering scalable BI solutions across diverse functional domains.

Languages:

• Native speaker of French or Dutch.
• Good understanding (reading and listening) in the other national language and in English (B1 or higher).