Data Quality Rules Analyst
Accelerant
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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About the role
- Act as the first point of contact for new validation requests and validation support requests.
- Clarify intent, scope, expected behaviour and enforcement with Data Owners and Product.
- Translate validation requirements into clear, build-ready rule specifications.
- Define deterministic data quality controls across ingestion validations, data product and cross-system controls.
- Own and maintain the validation catalogue content as a governed artefact.
- Monitor rule behaviour, including failure rates and override frequency.
- Perform first-pass interpretation of anomalies and outliers, supporting RCA with technical and analytical insight.
Requirements
- 3–6 years’ experience in data quality, data governance, analytics engineering, or data operations roles.
- Experience working with large, complex datasets with high volumes of data quality validations.
- Strong analytical mindset, able to interpret data behaviour, trends, distributions, outliers and cross-dataset consistency.
- Proven experience interpreting data quality issues at scale and forming evidence-based recommendations on rule refinement, thresholds, and upstream process improvements.
- Experience defining and maintaining deterministic data quality controls, including clear rule intent, severity, thresholds and expected behaviour.
- Validation catalogue experience, including maintaining rule metadata, ownership and lifecycle status.
- Working knowledge of SQL sufficient to interrogate datasets independently, explore data distributions, validate assumptions behind proposed controls, and investigate unexpected validation behaviour.
- Experience supporting Root Cause Analysis (RCA) through data analysis and evidence gathering.
- Ability to operate effectively in a maturing data quality environment, applying defined standards and guardrails while tooling and processes continue to evolve.
- Strong collaboration skills, working closely with Product, Technology and Data teams to ensure controls are implemented as specified.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development opportunities
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
data qualitydata governanceanalytics engineeringdata operationsdata analysisSQLRoot Cause Analysisdata quality controlsvalidation cataloguedata validation
Soft Skills
analytical mindsetcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingattention to detailadaptabilitycritical thinkingevidence-based recommendationsinterpersonal skillsorganizational skills