Data Quality Manager

Do you thrive on improving data quality, driving governance, and delivering trusted business insights?

Join our client as a Data Quality Manager, where you'll lead data quality initiatives, implement governance frameworks, and ensure the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of critical information assets. This is an excellent opportunity to shape data strategy while working with geospatial and enterprise-wide datasets.

What you will get in your new role

• Salary: £40,000 to £50,000 per annum
• Fully remote (must be UK-based) 
• Generous holiday allowance of 33 days 
• The opportunity to flex your working day 
• Birthday day off
• Excellent health benefits cash plan 
• Family-friendly benefits

Responsibilities in your new role as Data Quality Manager

In this role, you will take ownership of geospatial data quality, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and integrity across all data assets. You'll define clear data quality standards as part of a wider governance framework and work closely with data owners to embed best practices into everyday processes. You will also: 

• Monitor data quality and performance against agreed standards
• Identify opportunities to improve data accuracy and consistency
• Implement tools and processes to enhance data quality across the data lifecycle
• Carry out data cleansing, validation, and quality checks
• Analyse data issues and recommend practical solutions
• Feed insights and improvement priorities into agile development and release plans
• Support the continuous improvement of data management processes
• Collaborate with stakeholders to maintain high standards of data quality

Your personality, experience and qualifications

We're looking for a technically strong data professional with proven experience working with data quality tools and frameworks such as Collibra or DAMA-DMBOK. A solid understanding if GIS platforms including ArcGIS and QGIS is essential, alongside experience handling geospatial data formats such as Shapefiles and GeoJSON. You'll also bring: 

• A Strong understanding of data governance principles and regulatory requirements
• Experience working within Government, Infrastructure, Utilities, or similar regulated sectors (preferred)
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to prioritise competing workloads and manage deadlines effectively
• Strong organisational and time management skills
• Confident communicating complex technical information to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach with strong attention to detail

If you're ready to play a key role in strengthening data integrity within a forward-thinking IT & Technology organisation, we'd love to hear from you.