Senior Data Quality Analyst

Role overview

Data quality and analysis

• Analyze data across diverse systems to understand business flows, model structures, and sources of quality issues.
• Research undocumented or complex data models for issue investigation and ongoing monitoring.
• Investigate root causes of data quality problems and develop evidence-based recommendations and remediation plans.
• Analyze enterprise master data and identify complex scenarios in underlying source systems.

Governance and stakeholder work

• Work with data stewards to design, document, and implement business-focused quality rules and translate them into technical requirements.
• Communicate issues, root causes, business impacts, and recommendations to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Document findings, quality rules, technical requirements, and corrective actions for governance, technical, and business teams.
• Support data governance policy enforcement and continuous improvement of data quality practices.

Reporting

• Prepare reports, dashboards, and presentations to track and communicate progress and outcomes.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Data Analytics, Computer Science, or a related field.
• At least 5 years of data quality analyst or closely related data analytics experience.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python for data analysis and testing.
• Experience with complex data models, especially master data management, and deriving technical requirements from data steward rules.
• Familiarity with data governance principles, frameworks, and best practices.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, critical thinking, accuracy, and communication skills.
• Able to work independently and cross-functionally; understands the end-to-end data lifecycle and data technologies.
• Willing and able to rapidly learn new data quality and AI-powered quality technologies.

Additional qualifications

• Additional qualifications include knowledge of master data management, Power BI or Tableau experience, and understanding of regulations such as GDPR or CCPA.

Work arrangement

• BDO personnel are expected to work some time in the office, at client sites, and virtually; the firm's model is described as blended and flexible.

Employer information

• BDO describes a people-first culture and offers learning and professional development, benefits from day one, flexible personal time off, and wellness reimbursement.