Data Quality and Controls Analyst

Responsibilities:

• Daily Data Operations: Oversee the daily end-to-end data process by monitoring Airflow workflows, dbt builds, tests and source freshness, Microsoft Fabric pipelines and notebooks, SYNQ alerts, and downstream Power BI impacts.
• Issue Management: Log, prioritize, route, and track data quality and pipeline issues to resolution within agreed service levels; coordinate reruns, backfills, and recovery validation without bypassing required controls.
• Data Quality Rules: Partner with Business Data Stewards and Data Governance to translate approved business rules into executable freshness, completeness, uniqueness, validity, referential integrity, schema, and anomaly checks.
• Data Quality Tooling: Configure and maintain monitors, ownership, alert routing, lineage, incidents, and data quality metrics in SYNQ, supported by dbt tests and SQL-based validation where appropriate.
• Threshold Management: Use data profiling, historical patterns, statistical analysis, business materiality, and feedback from stakeholders to establish and tune thresholds while reducing false-positive alerts.
• Control Evidence: Maintain complete, attributable, and time-stamped evidence that controls operated as designed, including run histories, dbt results and artifacts, SYNQ incidents, tickets, approvals, reconciliations, and remediation records.
• SOC 1 Support: Support control walkthroughs, evidence requests, sample testing, exception documentation, and remediation activities in partnership with Risk, Controls, and Audit stakeholders.
• Quadrant Overrides: Operate and support the Quadrant override functionality for approved business corrections, ensuring each change is authorized, traceable, technically validated, and reflected correctly in downstream data. Business owners approve changes; the analyst supports the tooling and does not self-approve overrides.
• Manual File Controls: Support controlled manual file ingestion by validating file identity, format, schema, timing, approvals, ingestion results, and reconciliations so manual inputs remain reproducible and auditable.
• Lineage and Reporting Impact: Use metadata and lineage to understand how upstream failures or changes affect critical datasets, metrics, semantic models, and Power BI reports, and communicate business impact to the appropriate owners.
• Standards and Documentation: Maintain runbooks, control documentation, data quality definitions, known-issue guidance, and operating procedures; identify opportunities to automate evidence and reduce recurring incidents.
• Separation of Duties: Implement technical controls and approved governance standards while maintaining clear role boundaries. Data Governance owns the operating model and policy, business owners approve business corrections, and ED&A owns technical implementation and execution.
• Experience and Qualifications:
• 3+ years of relevant experience in data quality, analytics engineering, data engineering, data operations, or a controls-focused analytics role
• Advanced SQL skills, including data profiling, reconciliation, validation, and root-cause analysis across large datasets
• Strong hands-on experience with dbt, including models, sources, tests, source freshness, documentation, and deployment practices
• Experience with data quality or observability platforms and the operation of monitors, alerts, lineage, and incident workflows
• Experience monitoring and troubleshooting workflow orchestration tools such as Airflow
• Familiarity with Microsoft Fabric, including OneLake, lakehouses or warehouses, notebooks or pipelines, and SQL endpoints
• Understanding of Power BI data dependencies, refresh processes, semantic models, and downstream reporting impacts
• Sound understanding of data quality dimensions and control concepts, with the statistical literacy needed to establish and tune thresholds
• Experience maintaining audit trails, approvals, evidence, and change records in a SOC 1, SOX, financial-control, or similarly regulated environment
• Experience with Git, peer review, CI/CD practices, and controlled development-to-production deployment
• Strong communication, stakeholder management, problem-solving, and issue-coordination skills
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical or business field, or equivalent practical experience
• The following would be considered an asset:
• Experience with Microsoft Purview or comparable metadata, cataloguing, and lineage tools
• Familiarity with Azure security concepts such as service principals, Key Vault, RBAC, and least-privilege access
• Experience with medallion data architectures, Delta tables, Python, or containerized dbt workloads
• Experience supporting controlled overrides, manual file processes, or evidence automation
• Experience in real estate, investment management, accounting, or financial services
• Continuous learning mindset and a passion for data governance and quality
• This job posting is for an existing vacancy within our organization.
• The expected annualized base salary range for this role is $85,000-$110,000.
• Based on the position, QuadReal offers a competitive total rewards package in addition to the base pay, which may include a performance-based incentive plan, comprehensive health & dental benefits, pension plan, and paid time off.
• The actual salary offered will take into consideration a wide array of factors including, but not limited to, the individual’s skill, experience, education and training, the market compensation of the role, and the consideration to internal equity.
• We value diverse experiences and perspectives. Even if your skills don’t align 100% with the listed qualifications or salary range, we encourage you to apply – you may be a great fit for this role or others in our community. Applicants may also be considered for alternative positions within the organization where their qualifications and experience align more closely with available opportunities.
• We use artificial intelligence (AI) technology — alongside human review — to assist in screening and assessing applicants for this position. Our recruitment team remains involved in all decisions.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in Canada as the company does not provide work permit sponsorship for this role.
• Note to Recruiters: QuadReal does not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to QuadReal, directly or indirectly, will be considered QuadReal property. QuadReal will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. A recruiting agency must first have a valid, written and fully executed agency agreement contract for engaged services to submit resumes.
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