Business Data Steward - Wholesale Trade

Are you passionate about data, structure, and driving meaningful improvement? As a Business Data Steward Trade, you will play a pivotal role at the heart of our digitalisation journey within ING Wholesale Banking. In this role, you help shape how data is governed, organised and leveraged across one of our most internationally impactful business lines. If you enjoy working with complex datasets, collaborating with diverse stakeholders, and making processes smarter and safer — this is your next step.

You will join the Trade Financial Services team, part of ING Wholesale Banking. Trade is a core business line, serving corporate and institutional clients worldwide with products such as Working Capital Solutions, Bank Guarantees, Letters of Credit and Documentary Collections.

Our ambition is to digitalise and automate our products and scale them across ING’s international Wholesale Banking network.

You will work closely with:

• the Delivery Product Lead and Delegated Data Officer
• colleagues from the Data Lake organisation
• Risk, Compliance and Legal stakeholders
• international Trade teams across markets

The team culture is collaborative, purpose-driven and continuously improving. We work Agile and encourage ownership, experimentation, and open communication.

In this role, you are responsible for ensuring that Trade data is well‑governed, compliant, reliable and ready to support our digital ambitions.

You will be:

• Executing the data owner’s strategy, ensuring high-quality, secure and well-managed data for all Trade products.
• Ensuring compliance with ING’s data policies, European data regulations and local regulatory requirements.
• Acting as the subject matter expert for all Trade-related data.
• Developing, improving and maintaining dashboards and reporting to give clear insights into Trade performance and risk.
• Overseeing data compliance across 14+ IT assets, ensuring data controls, quality and governance standards are met.
• Performing data analytics to identify trends, risks and opportunities for optimisation.
• Maintaining and updating the Trade data model, working closely with engineering and data platform teams.
• Collaborating with Risk, Compliance and Legal to ensure Trade stays audit-ready and aligned with regulatory expectations.
• Supporting the Delegated Data Officer on governance, documentation and control topics.
• Sharing knowledge and best practices through presentations, workshops and process documentation.

• Strong attention to detail and a structured, methodical way of working.
• Solid analytical capabilities and affinity with data.
• Experience with data analytics, reporting and dashboarding tools.
• Confidence in working across business and technical teams.
• Clear and effective communication skills.
• Ability to simplify complexity and maintain resilience under pressure.
• A collaborative mindset and demonstrable “orange behaviour”.
• 5+ years of relevant experience and a bachelor’s or master’s degree.
• Experience engaging with Risk and Compliance stakeholders.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Rewards and benefits
We want to make sure that it’s possible for you to strike the right balance between your career and your private life. Find out more about our employment conditions.

The benefits of working with us at ING include:

• 25-28 vacation days depending on contract
• Pension scheme
• 13th month salary
• 8% Holiday payment
• Hybrid working
• Personal growth and challenging work with endless possibilities
• An informal working environment with innovative colleagues

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