This position is based at our Luxembourg headquarters and requires regular office presence. The EIB offers you the opportunity to live and work in a truly international and multi-cultural environment. We also offer relocation support.

The EIB, the European Union’s bank, is seeking to recruit for its Group Corporate Services Directorate (GCS), Group Digital Office (GCS-GDO), Data & Information Solutions Department (DIS), Data Management Division (DM), Data Warehouse Solutions Unit (DWS) at its headquarters in Luxembourg, an (Associate) Data Warehouse Officer*.

This is a full-time position at grade 4/5 for which the EIB offers a permanent contract.

*internal benchmark: (Associate) Officer IT Applications

Panel interviews are anticipated for July 2024.

Purpose

You will contribute to the design, development, and optimization of the Enterprise Data Warehouse extractions and reports, providing advice to the ETL development team and ensuring the alignment of the developments with best practices. You will actively develop ETL and reporting solutions based on financial data, with a special focus on regulatory reporting. We have exciting projects such as data lake implementation so if you want to be part of the digitalization journey of the EIB Group, you should apply!

Operating Network

The Data Warehouse Unit expanded over past years with the objective to improve bank’s investments quality and monitoring. The development of this role is highly based on integration of bank and fund management data in a single Group data Warehouse, and its consumption both by reporting structures (Data Marts) and IT downstream applications.

You will report to the Head of Data Warehouse & Solutions Unit. You will be the main point of contact in Data Warehouse unit for Financial applications and users.

Accountabilities

• Contribute to the definition of an IT strategy related to the Group Data Warehouse
• Ensure that IT policies and initiatives in the Group Data Warehouse fields are implemented and financial reporting needs are handled in the most effective and efficient way
• Develop the Group Data Warehouse and produce financial reporting, measuring its alignment with the objectives of the unit
• Ensure that the technical development and maintenance of Group Data Warehouse related projects are in full compliance with financial reporting expectations, latest banking regulation standards and industry best practices
• Ensure Group Data Warehouse architecture and governance adequacy with needs of financial data, in parallel of system high performance, reliability and availability
• Lead IT projects and business requirements analysis under own responsibility
• Coordinate the preparation of project documentation such as project charter, functional design, test scripts, progress report
• Evaluate the effectiveness of the Group Data Warehouse designs and developments to serve Financial reporting needs
• Provide timely support services, specific advice and recommendations in the Data Extraction, Transform and Load (ETL) domain to more junior staff/project managers in the execution of related projects

Qualifications

• University degree (minimum an equivalent to a Bachelor) preferably in Information Technology, Mathematics, Finance or related fields
• At least 3 years of relevant experience in the design, development, and maintenance of data warehouse and reporting ideally some of this experience gained in an Inmon-like Data Warehouse’s environment
• Very good knowledge of project management principles, methods and practices
• Strong technical knowledge of ETL tools (such as IBM Infosphere Datastage, Talend, Informatica) and SAP Business Objects Suite or equivalent reporting tools
• Good knowledge of database management systems (such as Sybase ASE & IQ, Oracle)
• Ability to interact, communicate and present ideas
• Excellent knowledge of English and/or French (*), with a good command of the other. Knowledge of other EU languages would be an advantage.

Competencies

Find out more about EIB core competencies here

(*) Unless stated explicitly as a required qualification, a good command of French is not a pre-requisite for hire. As both English and French are however official working languages of the EIB, proficiency in both languages is a pre-requisite for your future career development. Any language clause in your contract must be fulfilled in order for you to be eligible for a promotion (either via the annual appraisal cycle or via an internal selection process). Proficiency is understood to mean the attainment of level 5 of the Inter Institutional language courses, corresponding to B1.2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL). The Bank offers appropriate training support.

We are an equal opportunities employer, who believes that diversity is good for our people and our business. We encourage all suitably qualified and eligible candidates to apply regardless of their gender identity/expression, age, racial, ethnic and cultural background, religion and beliefs, sexual orientation/identity, disability or neurodiversity.

Applicants with specific needs are encouraged to request reasonable accommodations at any stage during the recruitment process. Please contact the EIB Recruitment team [email protected] who will ensure that your request is handled.

By applying for this position, you acknowledge the importance of maintaining the security and integrity of the Information of the EIB Group. In case of selection for the position you agree to comply with all measures (policies, controls, document classification and management) implemented by the EIB Group to prevent unauthorised disclosure of any information or any damage to the EIB Group reputation.

This is an open campaign to consecutively fill open positions. The campaign will remain open until position is filled. Applications will be reviewed in order of receipt.

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