DATA Quality Engineer - ICT Data and Analytics Services at FSCA South Africa

Purpose of the Job:

• To implement data management controls and perform data quality checks across all data assets throughout the delivery levels of the enterprise data landscape. The person appointed to this position will report directly to Senior Specialist: Data and Analytics.

Key Performance Areas:

• Find and facilitate cleaning of bad data in the data sources. Work with application developers and Business users to create processes to prevent data quality problems.
• Design, develop, document, and perform data quality checks and maintain data quality assurance throughout the enterprise data landscape.
• Work in conjunction with Data Engineers to model, calculate and track data quality results.
• Work closely with Data Services Manager and implement data compliance initiatives and projects.
• Write reports to evaluate and analyse data content at source and on the consolidated data platform.
• Create dashboards to highlight data quality content and overall population metrics.
• Analyze incoming data feeds for completeness, content, and data expectation.
• Identify trends and analyse data content across time and regulatory dimensions.
• Analyze data content and identify gaps in metadata/reference data and standardizations.
• Work with members of the Data Engineering team, Data Stewards and business SME’s in order to understand content and quality of data required to support regulatory mandate.
• Develop and design data quality solutions by studying information needs; conferring with users; studying data flow, data usage, and work processes; understanding data product needs across a suite of business deliverables.
• Monitor ETL jobs, metric/logging activity, reports, Power BI dashboards, and data pipelines.
• Create Power BI dashboards to present data quality metrics and other data governance related metrices.
• Generate overall data platform level content and metrics in Power BI dashboards to provide visibility to business teams of data completeness and governance within the data landscape.
• Create alert mechanisms for data quality issues, data receipt and completeness based on expected calendars and schedules.

Other Key Competencies:

• The candidate must demonstrate the following skills and attributes: Active listening, Critical thinking, excellent communication skills (verbal and written), and pay attention to detail. 
• The following abilities are a must for the position, knowledge of various backend development languages and database technologies like SQL. 
• Knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies and different modeling languages is an added advantage.   

Closing Date: 25 August 2023

Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, information-technology, engineering system analysis or equivalent, with more than 10 years of  relevant experience in at least 5 ICT solution development disciplines, and experience using data tools such as SSIS, SSAS and SQL.