Data Quality & Governance Engineer

Epergne Solutions; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data solutions company in Abu Dhabi is seeking a Data Quality & Governance Engineer with over 5 years of experience. This role involves ensuring that enterprise data platforms deliver trustworthy and governed datasets. Key responsibilities include defining data contracts, implementing data quality checks, and collaborating with engineering teams to enhance data trust. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in data quality frameworks and governance implementation.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in data quality and governance.
• Strong expertise in data quality frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Unity Catalog and metadata management.

Responsibilities

• Define and enforce data contracts with schema validation.
• Implement data quality checks within pipelines.
• Design validations to prevent data corruption.

Skills

Data quality frameworks

Governance implementation

Unity Catalog

Spark/Databricks pipelines

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Job description

Job Role:-Data Quality & Governance Engineer

Job Location:-Abu Dhabi, UAE

Experience:-5+ Years

Role Summary

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

Key Responsibilities

• 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

Secondary Responsibilities

• 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

Required Skills & Experience

• 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