Senior Data Quality Analyst

As a Senior Data Quality Analyst, you monitor, measure, and improve the accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness of an organization's data. You define quality rules, build validation frameworks, investigate anomalies, and work with source system owners to fix root causes. The senior title means you're shaping the data quality strategy, not just running checks.

Your day is part detective, part diplomat. You might discover that 15% of customer records have invalid email formats, then trace the problem to a web form that skips validation, then work with the engineering team to fix it while also designing a remediation plan for existing bad data. You need SQL skills, analytical thinking, and the interpersonal skills to tell teams their data is broken without making enemies.

The toughest part of this role is that nobody notices data quality until it fails. When the data is clean, analysts produce good reports and nobody thanks you. When it's dirty, everyone notices and everyone's frustrated. You're maintaining an invisible standard, and proving the ROI of prevention is an ongoing challenge.