Data Quality Analyst

Job Title: Data Quality Analyst
Location: San Antonio, TX / Plano, TX
Work Arrangement: 5 Days Onsite
Contract: 6 Months, with possible extension

Role Summary : Responsible for analyzing enterprise Data Quality defects, identifying recurring systemic issues, performing root-cause analysis and converting individual incidents into a prioritized remediation backlog.

Required Skills

• Strong Data Quality and root-cause analysis experience.
• Strong SQL skills.
• Working knowledge of Python for data analysis.
• Experience working with APIs and enterprise workflow/ticketing platforms.
• Knowledge of Data Quality and metadata tools such as BigEye and Alation
• Understanding of ETL/ELT, source systems, data platforms and reporting layers.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capability.
• Ability to work across technical and business teams.

Preferred Skills

• CDMP certification preferred.
• Experience with AI/LLM-based classification or clustering.
• Knowledge of data lineage and metadata-management concepts.
• Experience in highly governed or regulated data environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Consolidate Data Quality incidents and defects from enterprise workflow or ticketing systems.
• Normalize defect descriptions, root causes, ownership and resolution information.
• Develop and maintain a standardized DQ defect taxonomy.
• Identify duplicate, recurring and related defects.
• Analyze trends by domain, data asset, application, DQ dimension and root cause.
• Use analytical and AI-assisted techniques to cluster related defects into systemic themes.
• Validate proposed root causes with business and technical SMEs.
• Correlate defects with metadata and lineage information where available.
• Determine the most appropriate source, pipeline, transformation or consumption-layer remediation point.
• Prioritize systemic issues based on recurrence, impact, criticality, age and downstream exposure.
• Create and maintain a prioritized remediation backlog.
• Support assignment of owners and remediation SLAs.
• Validate remediation using Data Quality evidence.
• Develop reporting for defect recurrence, aging, ownership and remediation progress.

Work Location: In person