Data Quality Specialist

Purpose of the role

Establish the data quality management capability: the dimensions, rules, profiling regime, remediation approach and ongoing monitoring that lift and hold data quality across priority domains.

Key responsibilities

• Define the data quality framework, including quality dimensions, business rules, thresholds and tolerance levels.
• Run data profiling and quality assessment across critical data domains such as customer, asset, network, meter, billing, HR and finance.
• Identify root causes of quality failure and distinguish process defects from system defects.
• Design remediation and data cleansing plans, including prioritisation by business impact.
• Build data quality scorecards, dashboards and issue management workflows.
• Define data quality roles, ownership and the operating rhythm for ongoing monitoring.
• Support tool selection and rule configuration for data quality platforms.
• Contribute to the data trust index methodology alongside the governance workstream.

Mandatory requirements

• Technical or economic academic background.
• Minimum 10 years of professional work experience, of which at least 3 years directly in data quality roles.
• Minimum 1 completed data quality project including implementation support, delivered for an organisation in the MENA region.
• Demonstrable Power and Utilities sector experience.
• Hands-on profiling and rule development capability, not oversight only.
• Fluent professional English.

Advantageous

• Experience with Informatica Data Quality, Talend, Ataccama, Collibra DQ, SAP Information Steward or IBM InfoSphere.
• SQL proficiency sufficient to interrogate source systems independently.
• Exposure to utility-specific data structures: GIS, SCADA, AMI and smart metering, asset registers, CIS and billing platforms.
• Six Sigma or equivalent process improvement credential.
• Arabic language capability.