📊 Data Management Engineer

Do you enjoy turning complex data challenges into practical, trusted solutions?
As a Data Management Engineer at Dataroots, you help organisations build data foundations they can truly rely on - and actually use.

You work hands-on with clients to design, implement, and embed modern data management practices. From data quality frameworks and catalogs to governance processes that stick, you make sure data doesn’t just exist - it creates value.

This role sits at the intersection of technology, people, and process, in a scale-up environment where your ideas and initiative matter.

🚀 What you’ll do

Build data foundations that work

• Implement data quality frameworks, data catalogs, and master data solutions

• Translate business needs into practical, scalable data management setups

• Ensure solutions are adopted, embedded, and used in daily operations

Collaborate closely with people

• Work with both technical and business stakeholders

• Support governance processes and train teams on tools and best practices

• Help organisations grow their data maturity in a sustainable way

Grow with us

• Contribute to new offerings, ideas, and ways of working

• Take ownership and help shape how we approach data management

🎉 Why this role?

• Real impact: you empower teams to trust and use their data

• Variety: work across different clients, sectors, and challenges

• Growth: learn, experiment, and shape your path in a fast-growing scale-up

• Support: strong focus on collaboration, learning, and wellbeing
  

💼 What you bring

You don’t need to match everything perfectly. If this role excites you and you recognise yourself in most of it, we encourage you to apply.

• Hands-on experience in Data Management, including:

  • Data Catalogs (e.g. Collibra, Atlan, OpenMetadata, Zeenea)

  • Data Quality (e.g. Soda, Great Expectations, Monte Carlo)

  • Master Data Management (e.g. Ataccama, Informatica)

• Experience translating business requirements into technical solutions

• Confidence working with stakeholders at different levels

• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset

• Solid software engineering basics (Git, Python, SQL)

• Fluent English and either Dutch or French

Nice to have (not required):

• Experience with Docker

• Building batch or streaming pipelines (Airflow, Prefect, Dagster)

• Knowledge of platforms like Databricks, Snowflake, Azure or AWS and their governance tooling

💰What we offer

• An attractive salary with extralegal benefits, including:

  • Mobility budget or a company car with fuel/charging card

  • Hospitalization and group insurance

  • High-end laptop

  • Smartphone with subscription

  • Substantial amount of holidays

  • Meal vouchers

  • ...

• Diverse and welcoming work environment, where you’ll collaborate & unwind with colleagues from different cultures and disciplines. The organization of both fun & professional events and initiatives is actively encouraged and supported.

• A training budget for individual and team learning opportunities.

• Tons of team-building events and sports initiatives to stay connected and unwind.

📍 You’ll work in a hybrid setup from our offices in Leuven or Ghent, with coworking spaces in Antwerp and Charleroi, combined with remote work and on-site client visits.

Ready to help organisations make better decisions with better data?
👉 Apply now and start your journey as a Data Management Engineer at Dataroots.