Senior Data Quality & Readiness Lead

Halian; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 335,000 - 513,000; Full time

Job summary

Halian is seeking a seasoned QA and delivery assurance expert in Abu Dhabi to own end-to-end quality for Data Quality, Readiness, and Modelling deliverables before client submission. The role acts as the final internal quality gate, ensuring accuracy, completeness, traceability, and alignment with project methodology and client acceptance criteria.

Strong data quality, governance, and modelling background is essential.

Qualifications

• Strong experience in Data Quality Assurance, Data Governance, and Data Modelling.
• Hands-on understanding of Conceptual, Logical, and Physical Data Models.
• Knowledge of data profiling, CDEs, DQ dimensions, rules, scoring, and remediation.

Responsibilities

• Independently QA the complete client submission package, including data profiling outputs, CDE scope, data quality rulebooks, dashboards and reports, and remediation trackers.
• Perform detailed QA of data modelling deliverables at conceptual, logical, and physical levels.
• Validate entities, attributes, relationships, keys, naming conventions, data types, and model documentation.
• Validate alignment between data models and downstream Data Quality deliverables, ensuring consistency across tables, CDEs, keys, and business definitions.
• Conduct cross-deliverable reconciliation to identify inconsistencies across scope, rule IDs, CDEs, data quality dimensions, and scores.
• Independently reproduce or validate critical Data Quality calculations and ensure traceability to evidence and methodology.
• Review exclusions, low-coverage areas, and source-system limitations with documented rationale and impact.
• Maintain a QA checklist and issue register, classify findings by severity and risk, and drive resolution with stakeholders.
• Prepare final readiness recommendations: Ready / Not Ready for Client Submission.

Skills

Data Quality Assurance

Data Governance

Data Modelling

QA Processes

SQL Validation

Tools

SQL

Job description

Halian is seeking a seasoned QA and delivery assurance expert in Abu Dhabi to own end-to-end quality for Data Quality, Readiness, and Modelling deliverables before client submission. The role acts as the final internal quality gate, ensuring accuracy, completeness, traceability, and alignment with project methodology and client acceptance criteria.

Strong data quality, governance, and modelling background is essential.