Senior Data Quality Engineer

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Data Quality Engineer to lead enterprise‑wide data‑quality initiatives for a leading government entity in Dubai. The role focuses on building trusted, accurate data pipelines that support analytics and reporting across the organization.

Key responsibilities

• Define and maintain enterprise data‑quality frameworks, standards, KPIs, thresholds, dimensions and controls.
• Conduct data profiling, quality assessments and source‑data analysis.
• Design and implement automated data‑quality checks across ingestion, transformation, curated and analytical layers.
• Develop validation, rejection/quarantine, exception‑handling and remediation rules within data pipelines.
• Build source‑to‑target reconciliation controls and monitor completeness, accuracy and consistency.
• Investigate data‑quality issues, perform root‑cause analysis and drive remediation with data engineers and owners.
• Support Microsoft Purview and MDM platforms (e.g., Profisee) for critical data elements, duplicate detection and golden‑record quality.

Required profile

• 4+ years of experience in data quality, data engineering, data management or data governance.
• Strong hands‑on experience with data profiling, validation, reconciliation and automated controls.
• UAE nationals are encouraged to apply; Arabic‑speaking candidates are strongly preferred.
• Senior‑level expertise with a proven track record of delivering data‑quality solutions in cloud environments.

Required skills

• SQL
• Python
• PySpark
• Data Profiling
• Data Reconciliation
• Automated Data Quality Controls
• Cloud Data Platforms
• Lakehouse Architecture
• Medallion Architecture
• Metadata Management
• Data Governance
• Microsoft Purview
• Profisee
• MDM