IT Data Quality Analyst

Overview

The IT Data Quality Analyst supports the development and execution of IT data qualityprocesses across IT teams and functions. Under guidance from senior staff, this role assists inidentifying IT data quality gaps, performs data profiling and analysis, and helps maintainprocesses that ensure organizational data is accurate, complete, and compliant. The analystworks collaboratively across IT and operational teams to investigate data issues and contribute toongoing IT data quality improvement efforts.

Responsibilities

▪ Assists in defining and implementing an overall IT data quality strategy and approach todetermine, investigate, and resolve data quality issues.▪ Utilizes profiling, quality tools, and various IT data sources in order to determine causes ofquality issues.▪ Establishes an on-going process to maintain IT data quality and define IT data quality auditprocesses.▪ Identifies and leverages opportunities to improve the IT data quality management processes,systems, and standards.▪ Analyzes data errors, rejections, and anomalies across IT systems; assists in coordinatingresolution with relevant teams and external partners as needed.▪ Supports data governance activities including maintaining data dictionaries, metadatadocumentation, and business glossary entries.▪ Trains and articulates to the other departmental professionals regarding the benefits and needfor quality checking.▪ Assists in validating data accuracy across ETL pipelines, staging environments, and datamarts using SQL-based reconciliation scripts.▪ Works closely with clients and internal business units to resolve any quality issues.▪ Recommends modifications and changes, if any, to the appropriate departments.▪ Participates in after-hours support rotation to ensure 24/7 availability of critical systems.▪ Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Quality Control, QualityAssurance, or related field preferred. Minimum two (2) years ofexperience in data quality analysis, data management, or a related ITrole.

 

Special Skills, Licenses and Certifications

Willingness to acquire knowledge on new technologies to solve qualityproblems, excellent problem solving and analytical skills, ability towork independently, self-directed and solutions-oriented, soundorganizational and planning skills with a solid attention to detail,effective communication skills and excellent interpersonal skills.

 

Performance Based Competencies

Effective written and oral communication skills. Ability to assist othersin defining their needs in a collaborative, tactful manner. Demonstratedaptitude for acquiring new technical skills in a data qualityenvironment. Detail-oriented with strong organization skills. Ability towork on multiple projects and assignments simultaneously and meetdeadlines.

 

Work Environment And Physical Demands

 

Standard cubicle within a shared common area. Ability to use acomputer with standard software packages. More than 50% of worktime is spent in front of a computer monitor. When required, ability tomove, carry, and/or lift objects of varying size, weighing up to 25pounds.

 

 

 

All HealthPlan employees are expected to:

 

• Provide the highest possible level of service to clients;
• Promote teamwork and cooperative effort among employees;
• Maintain safe practices; and
• Abide by the HealthPlan’s policies and procedures, as they may from time to time be updated.

HIRING RANGE:

 

$ 32.51 - $ 39.01

 

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER NOTICE

 

The job duties, elements, responsibilities, skills, functions, experience, educational factors and the requirements and conditions listed in this job description are representative only and not exhaustive of the tasks that an employee may be required to perform. The employer reserves the right to revise this job description at any time and to require employees to perform other tasks as circumstances or conditions of its business, competitive considerations, or work environment change.