Data Quality Senior Specialist

Prague - Czech Republic

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 9 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description

Join our IT Data Domain as a Data Quality Senior Specialist where youll play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability trustworthiness and business impact of our data products. You will shape how data quality is defined measured and operationalized across the organization partnering with product engineering analytics and governance teams to drive meaningful outcomes. This is a hands-on high-influence role for someone who loves solving complex data problems and raising the bar for data excellence.

What Youll Do:

Drive Data Quality (DQ) Strategy & Standards

Define and evolve enterprise-aligned data quality standards across dimensions like accuracy completeness timeliness and consistency
Establish guardrails ownership models and Critical Data Elements (CDEs) to ensure clarity and accountability
Embed data quality by design into the lifecycle of data products and pipelines

Operationalize Quality Across Data Products

Partner with Product Owners and engineers to manage data contracts schema changes and incident resolution
Lead root-cause analysis and implement preventive controls using data lineage and impact analysis
Manage DQ backlogs and drive continuous improvement using measurable KPIs

Implement Monitoring Observability & Controls

Build automated DQ checks observability dashboards and health scorecards
Define SLIs/SLOs and error budgets to measure and improve data reliability
Support identity resolution and master data alignment across domains

Partner & Influence Across the Organization

Translate DQ metrics into clear business insights for leaders and stakeholders
Collaborate with analytics and ML teams to ensure high-quality inputs for models
Strengthen data literacy through training best practices and Community of Practice leadership

Advance Compliance Audit and Data Trust

Support audits risk assessments and compliance reporting through strong lineage and metadata practices
Promote dataset trust signals to help consumers make confident data decisions

What Youll Bring:

Experience from data quality data engineering data governance or data product roles (ideally with some focus on DQ/observability)
Strong SQL and Python skills for profiling rule authoring and automation
Experience with modern data platforms (Databricks/Spark Redshift dbt Airflow Kafka)
Familiarity with DQ & observability tools (Great Expectations Soda Deequ Monte Carlo Databand Collibra/Alation)
Understanding of data modeling CI/CD practices and metadata/lineage management
Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence across engineering product and business teams
Background in IT operations data telemetry/observability CMDB or regulated environments

What YoullGet:

Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment
Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
Hybrid working model flexible role pattern
Pension and health insurance contributions
Internal reward system plus referral program
5 weeks annual leave 5 sick days 15 days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually 40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities 12 weeks of parental contribution
Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers Lítačka sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport Card
Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank Foodora and other discount programs
Up-to-date laptop and iPhone company car
Parking in the garage for drivers or showers for bikers
Competitive salary incentive pay and many more

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Automation Data Engineering Data Governance Data Profiling Data Quality Python (Programming Language) Structured Query Language (SQL)

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Employee Status:

Regular

Relocation:

No relocation

VISA Sponsorship:

Yes

Travel Requirements:

No Travel Required

Flexible Work Arrangements:

Hybrid

Shift:

Not Indicated

Valid Driving License:

Hazardous Material(s):

N/A

Job Posting End Date:

02/6/2026

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Required Experience:

Senior IC

Job DescriptionJoin our IT Data Domain as a Data Quality Senior Specialist where youll play a pivotal role in ensuring the reliability trustworthiness and business impact of our data products. You will shape how data quality is defined measured and operationalized across the organization partnering ...