Data Management Engineer

About us

Where Innovation Meets Excellence!

Agoya is a data and AI agency with a mission to turn data into meaningful, future-ready solutions. Our teams combine technical expertise, collaboration, and a practical delivery mindset to make data more reliable and useful.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for a Data Management Engineer to join our team at Agoya HQ in Belgium. You’ll bring data governance to life through hands-on engineering: building metadata, documentation, quality checks, and monitoring into data platforms and workflows. Working alongside data engineers, analysts, and business and technical stakeholders, you’ll help make data easier to understand, trust, and use.

This is a practical, delivery-focused role for someone who enjoys turning governance principles into working solutions and helping teams adopt sustainable ways of working.

Your Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data catalogues, documenting data sources, key tables, data products, ownership, classifications, and sensitive data.
• Automate metadata collection, documentation, and lineage wherever possible, using catalogue integrations, APIs, and pipeline tooling.
• Translate business rules into automated data quality and validation checks within data pipelines and integration flows.
• Profile data, investigate quality issues, identify root causes, and collaborate with relevant teams on corrective actions.
• Develop and maintain data quality monitoring and reporting so stakeholders can understand trends and prioritise improvements.
• Use dbt or similar tools to support data testing, documentation, lineage, and clear links between data models and reporting assets.
• Support the documentation and governance of data integrations and APIs, including data flows, ownership, classification, and appropriate access.
• Collaborate with data owners, stewards, engineers, and application teams to embed documentation and quality practices into delivery workflows.
• Share knowledge, provide practical guidance, and help teams take ownership of their metadata and data quality over time.

Are you the one?

• You have hands-on experience in data management, data engineering, or a related technical role, with a focus on delivering reliable data solutions.
• You have professional experience with metadata management and data catalogues such as OpenMetadata, Microsoft Purview, Collibra, or DataHub.
• You are proficient in SQL and experienced in data profiling, quality analysis, and root-cause investigation.
• You have built automated data quality checks using tools such as Soda, Great Expectations, or dbt tests.
• You have hands-on experience with dbt or comparable transformation tooling, including testing, documentation, and lineage.
• You understand data architecture, integration flows, and layered data platforms, as well as governance concepts such as data ownership, stewardship, classification, and sensitive data.
• You are comfortable using Python and orchestration tools such as Airflow to automate data workflows.
• You understand APIs and machine-to-machine data exchange, and can use reporting or visualisation tools such as Power BI to communicate quality indicators.
• You communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, take ownership, and bring a pragmatic, accurate, and delivery-oriented approach.
• You speak English and Dutch and French.
• You must live in Belgium to be qualified.

Nice to have

• Experience with Databricks or a comparable lakehouse platform.
• Experience using data catalogue APIs or ingestion connectors to automate metadata capture.
• Knowledge of information modelling, including entities, attributes, and domains.
• Familiarity with GDPR, data classification, and security practices.
• Experience using issue-management tools to track and analyse recurring data quality problems.

Our Benefits

• Hybrid work, with in-person collaboration for the moments that matter.
• A competitive salary package, including meal vouchers, premium hospitalisation insurance, and a choice of company car or mobility budget.
• Continuous learning through Agoya Academy sessions and knowledge sharing.
• International team buildings and activities with colleagues across Belgium, Morocco, and Greece.
• Real ownership and the opportunity to shape reusable data practices across Agoya.

Ready to make an impact?

If you enjoy turning data governance into practical engineering solutions and making data more trustworthy, we’d love to hear from you.