Senior Data Quality Analyst

Package description

Job Reference: 10451
Band: D
Salary: GBP53,000 - GBP58,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Newcastle, Cardiff, Glasgow, Salford. (Hybrid remote)

Our comprehensive benefits package includes:

An employer pension contribution of up to 10%
26 days' annual leave (based on full time hours) + bank holidays and the option to buy/sell additional days
Contributory lifestyle benefit options including discounts at hundreds of retailers, cycle to work scheme, discounted gym memberships and healthcare schemes
Employee assistance and well-being programmes
Learning and development tailored to your role - this could include industry recognised qualifications, coaching and mentoring
An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join staff networks including: Women's Network, National Disability Networks and many more.

Family friendly flexible working arrangements, such as hybrid working, job sharing, flexi-time and compressed hours can be requested.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and especially welcome individuals from underrepresented groups.

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Job Introduction

The BBC is making the shift from being a broadcaster that speaks to our audiences to being a service that is shaped by them and designed around their wants and needs whilst stimulating and delighting audiences around the world. To achieve this mission of being a Digital First BBC, we are building a data organisation which will lead cultural and organisational change. This includes transitioning the BBC to a data product organisation, evolving our data architecture and embedding data capabilities company wide. To help us progress along that journey, the recently created Data Governance function plays a crucial part.

When you join the BBC as a Senior Data Quality Analyst, you join a culture of purpose and belonging - quality is at the heart of everything we do. Our aim is to guide the organisation into best practise that ensures our data is well managed, safe, discoverable and of excellent quality. As such we are very much part of the organisation, not on the outside looking in.

Trusted data is a fundamental aspect of our data strategy; having an operational Data Quality framework will be essential to deliver on it. As a Senior Data Quality Analyst in the Data Governance function, your role is pivotal to establishing a Data Governance framework. In the role, you will be responsible for supporting the definition and implementation of Data Quality frameworks and best practices as well as hands on analysis of data sets through data profiling and cleansing tools.

Interview process

Two stage interview process:

1. Half hour call with a Data Governance Lead
2. One Hour (virtual) panel interview which includes Use Case presentation (To be communicated in advance to allow preparation time) and competency based Q&A

Main Responsibilities

This is a wide reaching and varied role within the Data Governance Team and will require interfacing with many different teams and colleagues within the BBC. You will be working to develop best practise advice, policies, frameworks and standards; that's a big part of what we do as a team.

As a Senior Data Quality Analyst you will be heavily involved in the creation and roll out of the BBC's Data Quality Framework. Data teams across the BBC need your expertise to implement Data Quality processes, monitoring and controls leading to an uplift in Data Quality across the organisation. Capturing, recording and maintaining data quality business rules is a key aspect of the role, as is creating and maintaining a regime of regular MI to show the positive impact that Data Quality work is having on the BBC's Critical Data.

Specifically, you will be responsible for these activities:

Support the creation and roll out of a Data Quality framework to assess, design, execute and monitor Data Quality controls.
Support data teams across the BBC to implement and uplift Data Quality measurement and monitoring capabilities.
Ensure Data Quality rules are defined and captured within our data governance tools as appropriate.
Support the organisation and specifically data teams to maintain their Data Quality rules on a BAU basis.
Ensure accurate, regular, MI is produced to give visibility to the Data Governance Committee and other forums on Data Quality results across critical data, including adherence to standards, processes and reusability.
Establish a Data Quality issue management process to ensure that issues are captured and dealt with efficiently following best practise; underlying themes are to be recorded and explored to improve data quality across the BBC.
Support BAU and change management processes corresponding to Data Quality measurement, monitoring and issue management capabilities.
Develop Data Quality management guidelines to help data teams manage the quality of their data in a standard and consistent way.
Conduct Data Quality tool assessments and POCs as needed, and develop recommendations on appropriate implementation, configuration and use of these tools.

Are you the right candidate

Some of the things that we would love to see in candidates for this role:

Significant hands on experience working in Data Quality Management and implementation of Data Quality frameworks
Previous experience in data analysis, data profiling and Data Quality dashboard creation to demonstrate the value of the function and improvements being made
Experience defining Data Quality rules, Business Rules and data controls
Experience working with data quality tools such as Great Expectations, Monte Carlo, Attacama, or similar Data Quality solutions.
Experience writing, executing, scheduling SQL queries to discover and track Data Quality issues and measure improvement over time.
Experience using analytics and dashboarding tools such as Tableau to create and manage appropriate Data Quality dashboards
The ability to work with large and complex data sets, displaying strong analytical and numeracy skills with a high attention to detail and high levels of accuracy
An organised and methodical person with excellent problem solving abilities that enjoys a challenge.
An excellent communicator with the ability to engage, influences and develop strong relationships with business stakeholders.
A good understanding of a broad range of systems, cloud and on-premises platforms, databases (database management studios) and how they integrate (ETL, ELT, Messaging, APIs etc.).
A working knowledge of Python especially as it pertains to Data Quality work
Experience of working with Data Governance and Metadata management tools (Collibra, DataHub or similar)
Exposure to / experience of operational risk management

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.

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Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC - whether that's to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.

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