Introductie
The Technical Project Lead – Data Lifecycle Management will lead a Data Retention Initiative as part of a broader Enterprise Data Management strategy.
The mission is to turn an approved Information and Data Retention Policy into operational practice by defining and implementing an end-to-end Data Lifecycle Management plan across business units, systems and information domains.
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Conformity Criteria
• Master’s degree, or equivalent competence acquired through experience, in:
o IT, data management, information governance or project/program delivery, and
o data lifecycle management, records and retention or archiving.
• Minimum 8 years of professional experience in IT, data management, information governance or project/program delivery, demonstrated in the CV within organisations with more than 1,000 employees.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in data lifecycle management, records and retention or archiving, demonstrated in the CV within organisations with more than 1,000 employees.
• Demonstrable experience leading cross-functional delivery involving senior and business-unit stakeholders in a large or complex organisation.
• Working knowledge of regulatory drivers for data retention, particularly GDPR and NIS2.
• Fluent communication in Dutch, French and English:
o Dutch or French as a mother tongue or at least C-level.
o The other national language at least B2.
o English at least B2.
• Willing and able to work onsite in Brussels at least 2 days per week.
Evaluation Criteria
• Strong domain expertise in Data Lifecycle and Retention Management, covering the lifecycle from creation to deletion, including:
o IMPs.
o Retention schedules.
o Legal hold.
o Archiving.
o Deletion at scale.
• Experience in stakeholder management and change leadership across a large, decentralised organisation, demonstrated through delivered outcomes.
• Experience with Microsoft Purview for retention and enforcement across M365, ideally including SharePoint Advanced Management.
• Familiarity with other Data Lifecycle Management and information governance technologies, including:
o Data governance and cataloguing tools.
o E-archiving.
o Structured-data expiry and purge.
• Proven experience with tool assessments, RFP/selection and enterprise implementation.
• Technical delivery experience, including the ability to engage system owners on archival jobs, data-expiry configuration, scripting and integration, and drive deletion at scale.
• Working understanding of the broader regulatory landscape, including GDPR, NIS2, EU Data Act, EU AI Act and Belgian Camera Law, and the ability to translate these into retention obligations.
• Practical experience defining and implementing classification and tagging for security, privacy, retention, archiving and the identification of critical structured and unstructured data.
Certifications
The following certifications are considered a plus:
• Microsoft Information Protection & Compliance Administrator and other Purview/M365 certifications.
• PMP, PRINCE2 or Agile/SAFe.
• DAMA CDMP or information governance/records certifications.
• ISO 27001-related certifications.