Data Quality Engineer

Bupa Dental Care; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days holiday

Private healthcare

Remote GP access

Cycle to work

Wagestream - earned wages access

Employee discounts

Job summary

Bupa Dental Care is seeking a Data Quality Engineer to strengthen data governance and build automated quality pipelines in Snowflake. Joining the Data Governance team you will collaborate with Data, Architecture and Engineering to deliver scalable solutions that improve data accuracy, lineage and access controls.

This hybrid role requires weekly office attendance from either London or Bristol. The job combines hands-on data engineering with governance, quality checks and proactive issue

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Data Engineer role with data quality, governance or data management.
• Strong Snowflake experience, including SQL optimisation and data pipeline development.
• Experience building data pipelines using dbt, Airflow or similar tools.
• Strong SQL and Python or another data engineering language.
• Experience implementing automated data quality checks and monitoring.
• Familiarity with Git and CI/CD practices (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Ability to translate governance requirements into scalable technical solutions.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain data quality pipelines and controls in Snowflake.
• Develop automated monitoring, validation and alerting frameworks.
• Support data lineage, metadata management and governance tooling.
• Implement governance controls around data access, classification and retention.
• Collaborate with Data Governance, Architecture and Engineering teams.
• Drive continuous improvements to data quality, reliability and performance.

Skills

Data quality

Snowflake

SQL optimisation

Data pipelines

Python

CI/CD

Communication

Governance

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Git

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Atlan

Purview

Job description

Data Quality Engineer

Permanent, Full-time

Hybrid - based from either our London or Bristol office, with office attendance required once a week and occasional travel between locations depending on business needs.

The Role

At Bupa Dental Care, we're strengthening how we manage, govern and trust our data. As a Data Quality Engineer, you'll play a key role in building the technical foundations that underpin effective data governance across the organisation.

Working within our Data Governance team, you'll design and develop automated data quality pipelines, controls and monitoring frameworks within Snowflake, helping to ensure data is accurate, reliable and trusted. You'll turn governance requirements into scalable technical solutions, proactively identifying and resolving data quality issues while working closely with colleagues across Data, Architecture and Engineering.

This is an exciting opportunity for a hands-on data professional who enjoys combining data engineering expertise with a passion for improving data quality and governance.

What you'll be doing

• Building and maintaining data quality pipelines and controls in Snowflake.
• Developing automated monitoring, validation and alerting frameworks.
• Supporting data lineage, metadata management and governance tooling.
• Implementing governance controls around data access, classification and retention.
• Working closely with Data Governance, Architecture and Engineering teams.
• Driving continuous improvements to data quality, reliability and performance.

Knowledge, Skills & Experience

Essential

• Proven experience in a Data Engineer role, with exposure to data quality, governance or data management practices.
• Strong hands-on Snowflake experience, including SQL optimisation and data pipeline development.
• Experience building and orchestrating data pipelines using tools such as dbt, Airflow or similar.
• Strong SQL skills and proficiency in Python or another data engineering language.
• Experience implementing automated data quality checks, monitoring and validation frameworks.
• Familiarity with version control and CI/CD practices (e.g. Git, GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).
• Ability to translate business and governance requirements into scalable technical solutions.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to collaborate across technical and non-technical teams.

Desirable

• Experience with data catalogue, metadata management or data lineage tools such as Atlan or Purview.
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks and best practices.
• Experience implementing data security controls, classification, masking or access management within Snowflake.
• Experience working within a regulated environment.
• Exposure to cloud platforms and infrastructure-as-code tools such as Azure, AWS or Terraform.

Benefits

The benefits here are industry-leading, and we'll be able to tell you more about them in the process (or jump to the benefits and rewards page on our careers site for a flavour). But here's a snapshot:

• 25 days holiday, plus the option to buy more.
• Discounts in over 7,000 retailers, discounted gym membership and discounted dental insurance (of course).
• Health Trust - our bespoke employee private healthcare plan, providing healthcare cover with no medical underwriting for colleagues and their families.
• Access to remote GP and nurse services, physiotherapy, and mental health support.
• MyHealthcare Allowance, an annual allowance which is redeemable against a menu of Bupa healthcare products.
• Early access to your earned wages through Wagestream.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• And many more, just ask…

To find out more about working with us, find us on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Here you'll be welcomed. We champion diversity and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. You'll find an inclusive environment where you can be yourself and where everyone is driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world.

Bupa takes pride in being a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer and will aim to offer an interview/assessment to disabled applicants who best meet the minimum criteria for the role. We are committed to ensuring you are treated fairly during the recruitment process and offer reasonable adjustments to anyone who may benefit from accommodations to the recruitment process.

Bupa Dental Care is an equal opportunities employer.