Data Quality & Governance Specialist

Remofirst

Data Quality & Governance specialist overseeing data quality and governance for a leading startup. Collaborating between Data and Business teams to enhance data integrity and trust.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeRemote • 🇪🇬 EgyptMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

SQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the end-to-end Data Quality program: SLAs, monitoring, testing, issue resolution and continuous improvement.
Drive requirements gathering with business and data teams to define and document technical and business data quality rules.
Build and maintain dbt-based Data Quality tests across the medallion architecture (Bronze / Silver / Gold layers).
Build DQ dashboards and lead root-cause analysis to improve trust in data.
Build and maintain the enterprise data catalog and business glossary, ensuring metadata, ownership, lineage, and business definitions remain accurate, documented, and discoverable.
Partner with domain teams to capture institutional knowledge and translate business context into shared metadata, glossary definitions, classifications, and governed semantic context.
Enable trusted and reusable data foundations for analytics and AI use cases by improving discoverability, context, and governance of data assets.
Support governance and compliance practices for sensitive and regulated data.
Act as the bridge between Data and Business teams on definitions, ownership, trust, and governance decisions.
Facilitate workshops with domain owners to define business rules and data contracts.
Drive data discoverability and become the trusted point of contact for data meaning and reliability.

Requirements

What you’ll need

3+ years in Data Quality, Governance.
Hands-on experience running Data Quality and Data Governance initiatives in production.
Strong DBT and SQL skills.
Experience with data cataloging tools like OpenMetadata, DataHub, Collibra, or similar.
Experience building DQ dashboards and communicating with business stakeholders.
Strong ownership and ability to work independently.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive compensation
100% remote work
PTO regulated by local statutory

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Hard Skills & Tools

Data QualityData GovernanceDBTSQLData Quality testsData Quality dashboardsdata catalogingdata contractsdata discoverabilityroot-cause analysis

Soft Skills

ownershipindependencecommunicationcollaborationfacilitation