Data Quality And Governance Engineer

Job Role:-Data Quality & Governance Engineer

Job Location:-Abu Dhabi, UAE

Experience:-5+ Years

Ensure enterprise data platforms deliver trusted, traceable, and governed datasets by embedding data quality, lineage, and governance controls across pipelines and analytics layers.

• Define and enforce data contracts including schema validation, nullability, referential integrity, and freshness rules
• Implement row-level and aggregate-level data quality checks within pipelines
• Design reconciliation and consistency validations to prevent data corruption
• Establish dataset SLAs and quality thresholds for controlled data promotion and consumption
• Implement lineage and metadata standards to enable auditability and root cause analysis
• Define semantic standards for governed analytics and AI consumption
• Ensure datasets exposed to analytics tools meet governance and quality requirements
• Design scalable quality enforcement patterns without impacting performance or cost

• Optimize placement of validations based on pipeline execution flow
• Integrate data quality controls into CI/CD and workflow orchestration
• Support audit, compliance, and regulatory traceability requirements
• Collaborate with engineering and platform teams to improve overall data trust maturity

• Strong expertise in data quality frameworks and governance implementation
• Hands-on experience with Unity Catalog, lineage, and metadata management
• Experience embedding data validations in Spark/Databricks pipelines
• Understanding of SLAs, reconciliation patterns, and data contracts
• Exposure to CI/CD integration and production data operations
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills