Data Quality Expert - Data Platforms

The Position

We are looking for a Data Quality Expert who works with IT and business stakeholders to facilitate the creation, maintenance, and validation of our strategic data assets. This role supports the definition and deployment of data quality and observability practices, defines measures and KPIs, and implements rules needed to verify and validate the quality and fitness of enterprise data.

The Data Quality & Observability Expert uses best practices and tools to analyze and measure data quality and develop action plans to ensure data reliability, completeness, and consistency. The role will support the Data Governance teams in implementing governance practices and supporting compliance with required data quality and fitness standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Consult and advise the business with regard to data quality.
• Partner closely with data creators, data stewards, data consumers, and different IT teams to ensure data is usable, timely, robust, trustworthy, and compliant.
• Look at the end-to-end data flow and lifecycle, from generation/acquisition to exploitation and value, to establish data quality dimensions, rules, and indicators.
• Apply data quality principles and best practices to design and maintain policies, methodologies, and guidelines around data quality, data profiling, data cleansing, including KPI/metrics definitions.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify attributes that require data quality and corresponding business rules.
• Profile data, analyze user requirements, and translate and apply business rules to data quality rules.
• Interact with business stakeholders to resolve data quality problems using techniques such as root cause analysis, as well as collecting user requirements.
• Work with data quality and management platforms.
• Use tools such as Informatica DQ, Colibra DQ, and Ataccama.
• Work with data standards and ontologies.
• Perform data analysis with a strong focus on data quality and governance concepts.

The ideal candidate:

You are passionate about data and happy to collaborate with different stakeholders to achieve a common goal. You are looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue interests across functions and geographies. You will be an influencer, communicator, and change manager.

Years of relevant working experience:

Minimum 2 years of relevant experience.

Academic Requirement:

Bachelor's/Master's degree in Computer Science or related fields (or equivalent work-related experience).

Key competencies:

• 3+ years of experience in information technology/business system analysis and information design, resulting in a deep understanding of business processes and related information management, ideally in different parts of an organization.
• 2-5 years of data quality management, preferably in a consulting environment.
• Strong interest in data content and data quality.
• Interest and passion for working in a complex data domain and dynamic business environment, solving challenging problems, and supporting transformation.
• Ability to work in complex, matrix environments doing hands-on work as the situation requires.
• Understanding of the data governance process, data stewardship, data cataloging, data observability, data engineering, data integration, business rules management, etc.
• Ability to cultivate relationships with business partners to analyze and implement solutions to improve user experience.
• Ability to improve users' trust and confidence in data products.
• Ability to demonstrate the direct impact of Data Governance practices on business decisions.
• Strong consultancy and analytical skills, ability to learn new processes and concepts, and understand the technical constraints of possible solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, engaging with multiple technical and business stakeholders and leaders on all levels, transforming complexity into suitable structures.
• Exhibits an Agile mindset, i.e. good enough instead of perfection and focus on "Reuse before Buy before Make" when providing direction on future solutions.
• Domain knowledge in the pharmaceutical industry is an added advantage.
• Fluent English language skills and work experience in a multinational environment.

Competencies and Skills:

• Excellent teamwork skills and the ability to work effectively with a range of stakeholders.
• Cultural sensitivity to interact with internal customers around the globe.
• Great organizational and time management skills, as well as the ability to deliver under pressure.
• Adaptability and flexibility, including the ability to manage ambiguity and change.
• Meticulous approach to working, attention to detail, as well as a solution-oriented mindset.
• Affinity and interest in data and IT topics, as well as state-of-the-art business applications.
• Process and master data quality improvement orientation, as well as end-to-end thinking.
• Strong analytical/problem-solving skills and proactive management of issues before they arise.
• Initiative and ownership to tackle projects, problems, and changes without being asked.

Working hours:

Normal hours with flexibility to participate in virtual meetings outside of core business hours.

Travel requirement:

Minimal.

Shift:

CET time zone.