WilsonHCG

Work Location: Onsite
Position Type: Contract, 6 Months (potential for extension)
Location: Toronto, ON
Compensation Range: $51/hr. to $69/hr.

Our client, a multinational technology company specializing in Information Technology Services and Consulting, is looking to hire a Data Quality Specialist. 

Responsibilities:

• Work with various platforms and business teams/domains to enable data quality roll-out. 
• The Data Quality Specialist should be tenacious, creative, curious, with an appetite for growth and innovation. 
• This role is critical to promote the data quality regimen and key to establishing the foundation for the company's maturity. 
• They will also be responsible for the investigation, correction, and prevention of data issues as part of Data Quality Issue Management.
• Expertise in creating, validating, and updating Data Quality to ensure information is run through the DQ requirements. 
• The specialist collaborates with various teams to implement DQ and relevant Data Governance standards and best practices. 
• They oversee the creation of DQ in the full end-to-end implementation, with DQ issue resolution and reporting. 
• Data Quality 
• Reviewing Critical Data Elements (CDEs) for DQ dimensions, with DQ rules and threshold 
• Adhering to Canada Life Data Policy, Data Quality resources, Information classification and handling standard, Privacy guidelines, and other related policies and standards 
• Directly collaborate with business partners and other stakeholders for DQ implementation? Data Quality Process
• Create standards, procedures, guidelines, and templates for DQ implementation
• Create a registration process for CDEs and other related data elements with attestations and control
• Identify improvements in the process, Data Quality Tool
• Embed DQ process in the DQ tool, the Ability to create and implement DQ runs (testing & monitoring), including remediation processes 
• Support Lead in supporting business teams in using Collibra and connections to other potential DQ tooling solutions used by the business
• Support role alignment within Collibra and other related DQ solution tools to enhance DQ and metadata roles implementation, cohesion, and adherence

Qualifications:

• Data Quality (DQ): Work with the stakeholders, such as Lead Data Stewards, Data Stewards, and other data practitioners, to continuously ensure that the highest possible levels of data quality are applied. 
• Be the face of the business as a subject matter expert for DQ
• Quality Monitoring: Create, support, and monitor automated threshold-based reports that efficiently and reliably identify areas for further investigation and improvement. Work with the Lead Data Stewards and Data Stewards to support the resolution of the findings in a timely manner
• Data Quality Investigations: Analyze and evaluate data quality issues, clarify issues, and recommend corrective action. Create a root cause assessment to evaluate how to remediate, possibly at the source 
• Data Transformation: Run validation routines, comparing results between legacy and cloud systems for the length of the business transformation project, and identify DQ failures in the ecosystem
• Data Quality Reporting: Create a mechanism to ensure DQ activities are monitored and reported on a frequent basis, and gain analysis on how to improve DQ across the organization. 
• Continuous improvement: work with various stakeholders and the Canada Data Team to identify, refine, and implement data quality processes and requirements 
• Analyze data and provide data quality assurance for support teams
• Maintain documentation and share the knowledge base. Assist in the development and implementation of new processes, procedures, and tools to analyze data and insights
• Expertise in Collibra DQ tool management. 
• Must be Protected-B Clearance ready, obtained from the RCMP
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field such as Information/Data Science, Data Management, or Computer Science and/or Engineering; expert in Data Quality
• Experience in Data Quality, data profiling, and data cleansing