Description
Role: Data Quality Consultant
Contract Length: 4 months Ext TBC
Location: remote with some travel to Swindon
Security Clearance: basic bpss
As a Data Quality Consultant, you will be working in the newly formed central data management team and have practical experience of profiling data, measuring and improve data quality. You will have experience of working with data quality tools (ideally Talend). You will be responsible for helping define the core capabilities for data quality, designing and developing the citizen and central data quality & profiling services and processes that the data management function will provide. You will have good knowledge of data governance, communication skills and experience of working with data stewards and helping them understand the benefits of data quality improvement.
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
Your main day-to-day responsibilities will be to:
Work within the client team and client data stewards to help promote and support the improvement of data quality.
Develop proficiency in the Talend tool set.
Carry out data profiling and data quality assessments
Design and document services and process that help improve data quality
Define patterns and regular expressions for Data Quality improvement
Present information from profiling and quality assessments in an easy and understandable
Person Specification:
You will be an experienced data quality consultant with previous hands-on use of data quality tools. You will be familiar with data quality frameworks and have worked on projects that have implemented them and will have helped develop them. You will be comfortable talking to data architects about data architecture and metadata as well as data engineers and business users.
Essential:
Practical experience on more than one data quality project
Good knowledge of data quality and frameworks
Self-starter: Is able to plan own work and meet deadlines
Agile working: You have experience of working in agile environments.
Communication skills: Able to communicate clear both verbally and written
Community collaboration: You know how to work collaboratively within a group, using your initiative to identify problems, vary feedback and resolve conflicts.
Qualification:
Degree level or equivalent skills and experience.