Senior Data Quality Analyst (Principal Data Analyst) - #1694397
BBC
Date: 1 day ago
City: Cardiff
Contract type: Full time
Work schedule: Full day

Package Description
Job Reference: 23317
Band: D
Salary: £53,000-£60,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Attachment / Fixed Term Contract - 9 months duration
Location: Office Base is London, Cardiff, Salford, Newcastle or Glasgow (This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack .
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the [email protected] . For any general queries, please contact: [email protected] .
Job Introduction
The BBC is making the shift from being a broadcaster that speaks to our audiences to being a service that is shaped by them and designed around their wants and needs whilst stimulating and delighting audiences around the world. To achieve this mission of being a Digital First BBC, we are building a data organisation which will lead cultural and organisational change. This includes transitioning the BBC to a data product organisation, evolving our data architecture and embedding data capabilities company wide. To help us progress along that journey, the Data Governance function plays a crucial part.
When you join the BBC as a Senior Data Quality Analyst, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – quality is at the heart of everything we do. Our aim is to guide the organisation into best practise that ensures our data is well managed, safe, discoverable and of excellent quality. As such we are very much part of the organisation, not on the outside looking in.
Trusted data is a fundamental aspect of our data strategy; having an operational Data Quality framework will be essential to deliver on it. As a Senior Data Quality Analyst in the Data Governance function, your role is pivotal to establishing a Data Governance framework. In the role, you will be responsible for supporting the definition and implementation of Data Quality frameworks and best practices as well as hands on analysis of data sets through data profiling and monitoring.
Interview Process
Two Stage Interview Process
This is a wide reaching and varied role within the Data Governance Team and will require interfacing with many different teams and colleagues within the BBC. You will be working to develop best practise advice, policies, frameworks and standards; that’s a big part of what we do as a team.
As a Senior Data Quality Analyst you will be heavily involved in the creation and roll out of the BBC’s Data Quality Framework. Data teams across the BBC need your expertise to implement Data Quality processes, monitoring and controls leading to an uplift in Data Quality across the organisation. Capturing, recording and maintaining data quality business rules is a key aspect of the role, as is creating and maintaining scorecards to show the positive impact that Data Quality work is having on the BBC’s Critical Data.
Specifically, You Will Be Responsible For These Activities
Some of the things that we would love to see in candidates for this role:
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here .
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .
Job Reference: 23317
Band: D
Salary: £53,000-£60,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
Contract type: Attachment / Fixed Term Contract - 9 months duration
Location: Office Base is London, Cardiff, Salford, Newcastle or Glasgow (This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working)
We’re happy to discuss flexible working. Please indicate your choice under the flexible working question in the application. There is no obligation to raise this at the application stage but if you wish to do so, you are welcome to. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
Excellent career progression – the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities – our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. You can find out more about working at the BBC by selecting this link to our candidate pack .
If you need to discuss adjustments or access requirements for the interview process please contact the [email protected] . For any general queries, please contact: [email protected] .
Job Introduction
The BBC is making the shift from being a broadcaster that speaks to our audiences to being a service that is shaped by them and designed around their wants and needs whilst stimulating and delighting audiences around the world. To achieve this mission of being a Digital First BBC, we are building a data organisation which will lead cultural and organisational change. This includes transitioning the BBC to a data product organisation, evolving our data architecture and embedding data capabilities company wide. To help us progress along that journey, the Data Governance function plays a crucial part.
When you join the BBC as a Senior Data Quality Analyst, you join a culture of purpose and belonging – quality is at the heart of everything we do. Our aim is to guide the organisation into best practise that ensures our data is well managed, safe, discoverable and of excellent quality. As such we are very much part of the organisation, not on the outside looking in.
Trusted data is a fundamental aspect of our data strategy; having an operational Data Quality framework will be essential to deliver on it. As a Senior Data Quality Analyst in the Data Governance function, your role is pivotal to establishing a Data Governance framework. In the role, you will be responsible for supporting the definition and implementation of Data Quality frameworks and best practices as well as hands on analysis of data sets through data profiling and monitoring.
Interview Process
Two Stage Interview Process
- Half hour call with a Data Governance Lead
- One Hour (virtual) panel interview which includes Use Case presentation (To be communicated in advance to allow preparation time) and competency based Q&A
This is a wide reaching and varied role within the Data Governance Team and will require interfacing with many different teams and colleagues within the BBC. You will be working to develop best practise advice, policies, frameworks and standards; that’s a big part of what we do as a team.
As a Senior Data Quality Analyst you will be heavily involved in the creation and roll out of the BBC’s Data Quality Framework. Data teams across the BBC need your expertise to implement Data Quality processes, monitoring and controls leading to an uplift in Data Quality across the organisation. Capturing, recording and maintaining data quality business rules is a key aspect of the role, as is creating and maintaining scorecards to show the positive impact that Data Quality work is having on the BBC’s Critical Data.
Specifically, You Will Be Responsible For These Activities
- Support the creation and roll out of a Data Quality framework to assess, design, execute and monitor Data Quality controls.
- Support data teams across the BBC to implement and uplift Data Quality measurement and monitoring capabilities.
- Ensure Data Quality rules are defined and captured within our data governance tools as appropriate.
- Support the organisation and specifically data teams to maintain their Data Quality rules on a BAU basis.
- Ensure accurate data quality scorecards are produced to give visibility to the Data Governance Committee and other forums on Data Quality results across critical data, including adherence to standards, processes and reusability.
- Support the Data Quality issue management process to ensure that issues are captured and dealt with efficiently following best practise; underlying themes are to be recorded and explored to improve data quality across the BBC.
- Support BAU and change management processes corresponding to Data Quality measurement, monitoring and issue management capabilities.
- Develop Data Quality management guidelines to help data teams manage the quality of their data in a standard and consistent way.
- Conduct Data Quality tool assessments and POCs as needed, and develop recommendations on appropriate implementation, configuration and use of these tools.
Some of the things that we would love to see in candidates for this role:
- Significant hands on experience working in Data Quality Management and implementation of Data Quality frameworks
- Previous experience in data analysis, data profiling and Data Quality dashboard creation to demonstrate the value of the function and improvements being made
- Experience defining Data Quality rules, Business Rules and data controls
- Experience working with enterprise data quality tools such as Anomalo, Monte Carlo, Soda, or similar Data Quality solutions.
- Experience writing, executing and scheduling SQL queries to discover and track Data Quality issues and measure improvement over time.
- Experience with Python including packages such as Python Great Expectations.
- Experience using analytics and dashboarding tools such as Tableau to create and manage appropriate Data Quality dashboards
- The ability to work with large and complex data sets, displaying strong analytical and numeracy skills with a high attention to detail and high levels of accuracy
- An organised and methodical person with excellent problem solving abilities that enjoys a challenge.
- An excellent communicator with the ability to engage, influences and develop strong relationships with business stakeholders.
- A good understanding of a broad range of systems, cloud and on-premises platforms, databases (database management studios) and how they integrate (ETL, ELT, Messaging, APIs etc.).
- Experience of working with Data Governance and Metadata management tools such as Alation
The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. Priority consideration means for those employees seeking redeployment their application will be considered alongside anyone else at risk of redundancy, prior to any individuals being considered who are not at risk.
We don’t focus simply on what we do – we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us. Please make sure you’ve read about our values and behaviours here .
Diversity matters at the BBC. We have a working environment where we value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.
We want to attract the broadest range of talented people to be part of the BBC – whether that’s to contribute to our programming or our wide range of non-production roles. The more diverse our workforce, the better able we are to respond to and reflect our audiences in all their diversity.
We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief. We will consider flexible working requests for all roles, unless operational requirements prevent otherwise.
To find out more about Diversity and Inclusion at the BBC, please click here .
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