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Data Quality & Governance Engineer

Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment
London Full-time GBP 70,000 – 80,000
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DATA QUALITY & GOVERNANCE ENGINEER
£80,000
LONDON

This is a key hire into a growing data and AI function within a regulated financial services environment. The role offers a strong mix of hands-on technical work and data governance ownership, with the chance to shape how data quality and trust is embedded across the business.

THE COMPANY Our client is a fast-growing financial services organisation providing core banking and technology services to a broad range of businesses, including fintechs and SMEs. They operate in a highly regulated environment and are investing heavily in their data platform as part of continued growth. This role has been created due to increasing demand for trusted, high-quality data across the organisation.

THE ROLE • Take ownership of data quality and governance across key business domains

  • Build and maintain data quality metrics using SQL and dbt, ensuring accuracy and reliability

  • Implement and manage the organisation's data governance tooling, including metadata, lineage and documentation

  • Work closely with stakeholders to define data standards, metrics and data definitions

  • Support finance and analytics teams by improving visibility into data quality and source reliability

  • This role is heavily hands-on (circa 75% technical), while also offering real ownership over governance practices and tooling.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: • Experience in data quality, analytics engineering or data engineering roles
  • Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with dbt

  • Understanding of data governance concepts such as data lineage, data dictionaries and quality frameworks

  • Experience working with data quality metrics and validation processes

  • Comfortable working with stakeholders and translating business requirements into technical metrics

  • Experience with governance or metadata tools is advantageous

SALARY AND BENEFITS • £70,000 - £80,000 base salary
  • Bonus scheme

  • Pension contribution

  • Hybrid working model (2 days per week in London)

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV to Harry Lack through the 'Apply' link.

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