Data Quality Expert - Data Platforms

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG; Hyderabad; Hybrid; INR 1,400,000 - 2,100,000; Full time

Job summary

Roche is seeking a Data Quality Expert to work with IT and business stakeholders to define, deploy and measure data quality and observability. The role emphasizes governance, data profiling, and collaboration across data creators and IT teams to ensure reliable, complete and compliant data assets.

The ideal candidate will have 3+ years in data quality management, a degree in CS or related field, and experience with Informatica DQ, Collibra DQ or Ataccama.

Qualifications

• Bachelor or Master degree in Computer Science or related field or equivalent experience.
• 3+ years IT/business analysis with data quality focus.
• 2-5 years in data quality management in a matrix organization.

Responsibilities

• Consult with business to define data quality requirements and KPIs.
• Collaborate with data creators, stewards and IT to ensure data usability and compliance.
• Design and maintain data quality rules, profiling and cleansing processes.
• Apply governance principles and support data observability efforts.
• Apply root-cause analysis to resolve data quality problems.

Skills

Data quality

Data governance

Stakeholder collaboration

Data profiling

Problem solving

Agile mindset

Education

Bachelor/Master in Computer Science or related

Tools

Informatica DQ

Collibra DQ

Ataccama

Job description

At Roche you can show up as yourself, embraced for the unique qualities you bring. Our culture encourages personal expression, open dialogue, and genuine connections, where you are valued, accepted and respected for who you are, allowing you to thrive both personally and professionally. This is how we aim to prevent, stop and cure diseases and ensure everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Join Roche, where every voice matters.

The Position

We are looking for a Data Quality Expert who works with IT and business stakeholders to facilitate the creation, maintenance, and validation of our strategic data assets. This role supports the definition and deployment of data quality and observability practices, defines measures and KPIs and implements rules needed to verify and validate the quality and fitness of the enterprise data. The Data Quality & Observability Expert uses best practices and tools to analyze and measure data quality and develop action plans to ensure data reliability, completeness, and consistency. The role will support the Data Governance teams in implementing governance practices and supporting compliance with required data quality and fitness standards.

Key Responsibilities

The position includes the following responsibilities:

• Consult and advise the business with regard to data quality
• You will partner closely with data creators, data stewards, data consumers, and different IT teams to ensure our data is usable, timely, robust, trustworthy, and compliant
• This role looks at the end-to-end data flow and lifecycle, from generation/acquisition to exploitation and value, to establish data quality dimensions, rules, and indicators
• You will apply data quality principles and best practices to design and maintain policies, methodologies, guidelines around data quality, data profiling, data cleansing, including KPI/metrics definitions
• You will collaborate with business stakeholders to identify attributes that require data quality and corresponding business rules
• Profile data, analyze user requirements, and translate & apply business rules to data quality rules
• You will interact with business stakeholders to resolve data quality problems using techniques such as root cause analysis as well as collecting user requirements
• Working with data quality and management platforms
• You will have experience with tools such as Informatica DQ, Colibra DQ, Ataccama
• Working with data standards and ontologies
• Data analysis with a strong focus on data quality and governance concepts

The ideal candidate

You are passionate about data and happy to collaborate with different stakeholders to achieve a common goal. You’re looking for a company where you have the opportunity to pursue interests across functions and geographies. You will be an influencer, communicator and change manager.

Years of relevant working experience

Minimum 2 years’ of relevant experience

Academic Requirement

Bachelor/Master degree in Computer Science or related fields (or equivalent work-related experience)

Key competencies

The following skills and competencies are needed:

• 3+ years experience in information technology /business system analysis, information design, resulting in a deep understanding of business processes and related information management, ideally in different parts of an organization
• 2-5 years of data quality management, preferably in a consulting environment
• Strong interest in data content and data quality
• Interest and passion for working in a complex data domain and dynamic business environment, solving challenging problems, and supporting transformation
• Ability to work in complex, matrix environments doing hands‑on work as the situation requires
• Understanding of the data governance process, data stewardship, data cataloging, data observability, data engineering, data integration, business rules management, etc.
• Ability to cultivate relationships with business partners to analyze and implement solutions to improve user experience
• Ability to improve users' trust and confidence in the data products
• Ability to demonstrate the direct impact of Data Governance practices on business decisions
• Strong consultancy and analytical skills, ability to learn new processes and concepts and understand the technical constraints of possible solutions
• Be an excellent communicator and collaborator, engaging with multiple technical and business stakeholders and leaders on all levels, transforming complexity into suitable structures
• Exhibits an Agile mindset, i.e. Good enough instead of perfection and Focus on “Reuse before Buy before Make” when providing direction on future solutions
• Domain knowledge in pharmaceutical industry is an added advantage
• Fluent english language skills and work experience in a multinational environment

Competencies and Skills

• Excellent teamwork skills and the ability to work effectively with a range of stakeholders
• Cultural sensitivity to interact with internal customers around the globe
• Great organizational and time management skills as well as the ability to deliver under pressure
• Adaptability and flexibility including the ability to manage ambiguity and change
• Meticulous approach of working, attention to detail as well as solution-oriented mindset
• Affinity and interest for data and IT topics as well as state‑of‑the‑art business applications
• Process and mastering data quality improvement orientation as well as end‑to‑end thinking
• Strong analytical/problem solving skills and proactive management of issues before they arise
• Initiative and ownership to tackle projects, problems, and changes without being asked

Working hours

Normal hours with flexibility to participate in virtual meetings outside of core business hours

Travel requirement

Minimal #Hyderabad2026

Who we are

A healthier future drives us to innovate. Together, more than 100’000 employees across the globe are dedicated to advance science, ensuring everyone has access to healthcare today and for generations to come. Our efforts result in more than 26 million people treated with our medicines and over 30 billion tests conducted using our Diagnostics products. We empower each other to explore new possibilities, foster creativity, and keep our ambitions high, so we can deliver life‑changing healthcare solutions that make a global impact. Let’s build a healthier future, together.

Roche is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe it’s urgent to deliver medical solutions right now – even as we develop innovations for the future. We are passionate about transforming patients’ lives. We are courageous in both decision and action. And we believe that good business means a better world. That is why we come to work each day. We commit ourselves to scientific rigor, unassailable ethics, and access to medical innovations for all. We do this today to build a better tomorrow. We are proud of who we are, what we do, and how we do it. We are many, working as one across functions, across companies, and across the world. We are Roche.