Senior Data Quality Analyst I

MetLife; Maharashtra; On-site; INR 2,400,000 - 3,600,000; Full time

Job summary

MetLife India MGCC is seeking a Data Quality Analyst to strengthen data quality across production-grade analytics solutions. The role involves data profiling, validation, and monitoring of data pipelines, with mentorship duties for other analysts.

You will work across data governance, data quality, data modeling and BI capabilities, in an Azure-based data landscape, contributing to trusted data and actionable insights.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or equivalent educational qualification.
• 8-10+ years of relevant experience in data quality/analytics.
• Experience with data profiling, validation, and quality reporting.
• Proficiency in SQL and data tooling (ETL/ELT).
• Experience in on-premises and cloud data environments.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain validation rules/test cases to ensure data quality across dimensions (accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness).
• Perform data quality checks at lifecycle stages (unit, integration, UAT).
• Profile data to detect anomalies and ensure data quality artifacts.
• Collaborate with Business, Technology, Operations and D&A capabilities (Governance, Data Quality, Data Modeling, Data Architecture, Data Science, BI).
• Mentor and guide Data Quality Analysts; lead design, solutioning and estimations.

Skills

SQL

Azure Data Services

Data profiling

Data cleansing

Anomaly detection

Communication

Problem solving

Mentorship

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or information technology

Tools

Azure Data Factory

Azure Synapse

Job description

Position Summary

MetLife established a Global capability center (MGCC) in India to scale and mature Data & Analytics, technology and operations capabilities in a cost-effective manner and make MetLife future ready. The center is integral to Global Technology and Operations with a focus to protect & build MetLife IP, promote reusability and drive experimentation and innovation. The Data & Analytics team in India mirrors the Global D&A team with an objective to drive business value through trusted data, scaled capabilities, and actionable insights. The operating models consists of business aligned data officers- US, Japan and LatAm & Corporate functions enabled by enterprise COEs- data engineering, data governance and data science

Role Value Proposition

Data Quality Analyst plays a critical role in data and analytics life cycle and significantly contributes to ensuring data quality of production grade data and analytics solutions. The role requires one to demonstrate expertise in data profiling, validation, data pipeline monitoring and quality reporting.This role mentors Data Quality Analysts. It is an individual contributor role, expected to solve wide ranging business problems, It is an individual contributor role.

Job Responsibilities

• Build and maintain validation rules/test cases to ensure quality of data on variety of dimensions: accuracy, completeness, consistency and timeliness


• Perform DQ checks at various lifecycle stages e.g. (unit testing , intergration testing, user acceptance testing)


• Perform profiling to detect anomalies


• Create and maintain data quality artefacts


• Collaborate with multiple partners from Business, Technology, Operations and D&A capabilities (Data Governance, BSA, Data science, Data Platforms, BI)


• Independently lead design, solutioning & estimations


• Mentor DQ Analysts


• Collaborate with multiple partners from Business,Technology, Operations and D&A capabilities (Data Governance, Data Quality, Data Modeling, Data Architecture, Data science, DevOps, BI & insights)

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology or equivalent educational qualification

Technical Skills And Experience

• 8-10+ years of relevant experience


• SQL


• Azure Data Services (data factory,synpase)


• Data quality testing tools such as Atacamma(web & Desktop), IDQ, ETL tools like Tosca


• Data profiling, cleansing and anomaly techniques


• Understand Datamart, Data lake and Data Warehouse


• Mentorship experience


• Experience working with large data states in On-Prem and Cloud environments


• Communication skills, analytical skills, structured problem-solving skills


• Storytelling, Partner, Stakeholder engagement experience

Good To Have (Preferred)

• Exposure to Gen AI technology and tools


• NO-SQL databases, HIVE


• Banking Financial Services and Insurance domain knowledge