Technical Business Analyst - Data Lake

About the role

ING Hubs Romania supports the ING Belgium Data Management organization in building a well-governed data lake that ensures data availability, a common understanding of business terms, high-quality data and compliance with regulations. You will turn business requirements into clear data logic, specifications, metadata and validation criteria. The role is hybrid, either from home or from the new office buildings in Bucharest.

Key responsibilities

• Translate business requirements with international stakeholders (data stewards, data suppliers and data consumers) for onboarding and structuring data in the Data Lake
• Data modelling and data exposure to end users
• Create definitions for business terms based on existing ING data catalogues, covering data quality, data lineage, data privacy and data security
• Produce analysis deliverables such as workflow diagrams, data models and functional/technical documentation
• Align with architects on the data lake design and ensure the implementation follows the target architectures
• Support DevOps engineers with functional knowledge to fix production incidents
• Design and run end-to-end functional test cases so outputs match business requirements before go-live
• Manage stakeholder expectations, support planning and take ownership of deliverables
• Identify improvements to data quality, documentation, governance and team delivery

Required profile

• Mandatory: ability to use SQL for medium-complexity queries
• Experience working with databases and data warehouses
• Experience as a technical business analyst in IT projects
• Experience in requirements gathering and writing technical and functional specifications
• Hands-on experience with data quality, data lineage, data security, data privacy, data lifecycle management and data-governance practices
• Experience with banking products, processes and services
• Nice to have: Agile methodology experience and knowledge of banking regulatory requirements
• Master's or bachelor's degree (IT, Engineering, Mathematics or Economics/Business)

Required skills

• SQL
• Databases and data warehouses
• Requirements gathering and technical specification writing
• Data governance and data quality