Data Quality Lead – Asset Data Reliability & Insights

Arrow Global Group; Manchester; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Arrow Global Group is seeking a Data Quality Lead in Manchester to define data quality standards and partner with IT to implement checks, dashboards, and alerts. You will drive continuous improvement and establish trust in data across asset management datasets including real estate, lending, and credit.

The role requires governance experience, strong stakeholder engagement, and a background in financial data domains.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field.
• Demonstrated experience in a Data Governance or Data Management program.
• Proven experience leading data quality, data governance, or data controls in a data-rich environment (financial services, credit, real estate, asset management, or similar).
• A background in financial data domains (IBOR/ABOR, transactions, market data, reference data).
• Experience working with business stakeholders to define critical data elements, data definitions, and “fit for use” requirements.
• Familiarity with data quality tooling and modern orchestration/observability practices.
• Comfortable building processes from scratch in a newly formed team.
• Resourceful, motivated self-starter with the ability to collaborate across business and technology.
• Strong analytical, verbal, and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Establish domain-specific data quality rules and thresholds for core datasets across Real Estate, Lending & Credit.
• Define metrics to assess data quality performance and drive continuous improvement.
• Partner with Data Engineering to design automated checks, dashboards, and alerts for pipelines and reports.
• Lead root-cause analysis of data incidents and coordinate fixes with source platforms.
• Use trend analysis to prioritise remediation and improve data reliability and trust.
• Maintain expertise in data quality industry trends and implement advanced methodologies.

Skills

Data governance

Data quality tooling

Stakeholder engagement

Financial data domains

Instrumentation

Process improvement

Communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science / Information Systems / Data Science

Job description

Arrow Global Group is seeking a Data Quality Lead in Manchester to define data quality standards and partner with IT to implement checks, dashboards, and alerts. You will drive continuous improvement and establish trust in data across asset management datasets including real estate, lending, and credit.

The role requires governance experience, strong stakeholder engagement, and a background in financial data domains.