Business (Data) Analyst – Data Products
Make an impact as a Business (Data) Analyst by developing data solutions with your team that drive Rabobank forward. Work in an innovative environment on complex data challenges and help shape the future of data. Read on or apply now!

You & your role

Work on analysing, structuring and documenting customer requirements within a dynamic data landscape. As a Business (Data) Analyst, you are the link between stakeholders, the product owner and the DevOps team. You translate functional and technical requirements into concrete solutions and ensure robust documentation. In this role, you work closely with various teams and contribute to achieving Rabobank’s data-driven ambitions. Someone who can find the right people, takes initiative, and turns scattered details into a clear information.

Top responsibilities

• Stakeholder Management in a Complex Organization:Engage with multiple business units, data producers, and consumers across a complex, interconnected organizational structure. Act as the connector to ensure smooth communication and alignment throughout the data product lifecycle.
• Coordinate with Architects and Engineers: Collaborate with Data Architects and Engineering teams to design logical and physical data models that meet business objectives and support scalable data products.
• Translate Business Needs into Technical Requirements: Understand consumer requirements and map them to available data sources, ensuring alignment between business needs and technical feasibility. Create clear, actionable specifications for engineering teams.
• Drive Delivery & Validate Quality: Oversee implementation by providing detailed functional specifications and acceptance criteria, and actively participate in functional testing and validation of data products to ensure they meet business requirements and quality standards.
• Streamline Business Analysis Processes: Define and implement best practices for gathering, documenting, and validating requirements for data products, continuously improving efficiency and consistency.
• Data modelling: experienced in designing and integrating enterprise-wide data models from diverse source systems and creating scalable, user-friendly models

Examples from practice

• Organising conversations with customers to analyse and document requirements.
• Develop and maintain conceptual, logical and physical data models for data product
• Create data models where the integration of several different source systems has taken place
• Research new datasets and understand how the source system is translated to an existing enterprise wide data model

You & your talent

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree
• At least 6 years’ experience as a business analyst, of which at least 3 years with data modelling (Data Vault, Dimensional modelling) and historical data.
• Ability to work in a complex organization, bridging multiple teams and systems.
• Good communication and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven experience as a Business Analyst in a data-driven environment (data engineering, analytics, or BI).
• Strong understanding of data modelling, data pipelines, and data product lifecycle.
• Familiarity with SQL & data warehousing concepts
• Knowledge of Agile methodologies and experience in writing user stories and acceptance criteria.

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of differences. By combining people’s differences, we become an even better bank. We are therefore curious about what you will add to our team.

‘Join a dynamic, multicultural team spanning Utrecht and India, where we deliver the most diverse and engaging portfolio of data products, making every day a fresh challenge.’

Emmanuel Illing-Enkelaar, Scrum Master

Work on yourself & the world around you

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That’s why we want to invest in you and work together for a better world. We summarise this in one sentence: at Rabobank, you work on yourself & the world around you at the same time.

You’ll see this reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid working environment and a good balance between work and home. You can work on banking matters for our private and business customers, but also on social issues such as food and energy transitions.

Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we believe we become stronger by bringing together people who complement each other. By embracing our differences, we bring out the best in each other. We seek diversity in knowledge, skills and experience, as well as in gender, background and culture. We strive for diversity and the space to be yourself – whoever you are – in every department. That’s what diversity and inclusion at Rabobank is all about.

You & your talent

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Information Science, Computer Science, Business Information Management or a quantitative field.
• At least 6 years’ experience as a business analyst, of which at least 3 years with data modelling (Data Vault, Dimensional modelling) and historical data.
• Experience with SQL and data analysis.
• Striving for results.
• Focus on the customer.
• Solution-oriented.

Apply

To ensure that we assess all candidates equally for suitability for this position, we do not require a cover letter. Instead, we ask all candidates the same three questions to see how your profile matches the position. Pay sufficient attention to answering these questions and explaining your answers; this, together with your CV, is the only information we will use to evaluate you in this round. If this is missing from your application, your application will not be considered. You can draw on your work, volunteer work, education, private life, and so on. Use a maximum of 200 words per question and provide no more than two examples. Below are the questions:

• How would you translate business data requirements into actionable tasks for a team of data engineers?
• How have you created or improved data or a data product to help the business gain value out of data?
• What approach do you take to align stakeholders around data product goals and ensure successful delivery?

You and the job application process

• Any questions about working at Rabobank and the process?Raphaël Drenthel, IT Recruiter via Raphael.Drenthel@rabobank.nl. (CV”s sent directly to this email-address will not be handled. We kindly ask that you only apply via the portal)
• We will hold the interviews through a video call. If you are selected for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will reach out to you via SMS and email to schedule the interview.
• You can find answers to the most frequently asked questions on rabobank.jobs/en/faq
• A screening is part of the process.
• We respect your privacy.

To be considered for this position, you must be located in the Netherlands and have the legal right to work in the Netherlands. We are unable to consider candidates requiring relocation from another country.

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