Lead Data Steward & Data Quality Architect

StarHub; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

StarHub is seeking a Lead DXP C360 Data Platform data quality steward to drive trusted data for self-service analytics. You will own the data stewardship model, implement automated quality rules, and maintain catalog hygiene, partnering with Data Engineering and governance teams to embed controls in production.

You will leverage Snowflake, Python, and orchestration tools to operationalize checks, analyze data defects, and elevate data trust across priority datasets.

Qualifications

• 5–9+ years of experience in data stewardship, data quality, analytics operations, data governance with technical depth, or adjacent data engineering work.
• Strong ability to work with Snowflake SQL and Python, and to use them for profiling, rule implementation, exception analysis, and control automation.
• Demonstrated experience implementing or operating DQ frameworks, scorecards, certification workflows, or metadata/catalog processes.

Responsibilities

• Own the data stewardship execution model for priority datasets, including ownership, trust status, certification criteria, and quality controls.
• Design, implement and improve automated data quality rules, checks, and remediation workflows for governed datasets.
• Maintain data catalog hygiene and trust metadata so critical datasets are discoverable and certified for use.
• Analyse data patterns, exceptions, and recurring defects to identify root causes and quality trends.
• Partner with engineering and governance teams to translate business definitions into executable quality and trust controls.
• Lead stewardship operations across domains by setting standards and driving issue handling and escalation.
• Define, implement and improve automated checks for completeness, uniqueness, validity, referential integrity, reconciliation, freshness, and schema drift.
• Use SQL, Python, Snowflake, orchestration tooling, and metadata workflows to operationalize DQ checks and issue detection.
• Analyse recurring defects and pattern shifts to identify origin of issues in source, pipeline, or business definitions.
• Coach data users on how to use data, interpret controls, and manage data trust issues.

Skills

SQL

Python

Snowflake

Data governance

Data quality

Workflow orchestration

Tools

Airflow

Airbyte

AWS

Job description

StarHub is seeking a Lead DXP C360 Data Platform data quality steward to drive trusted data for self-service analytics. You will own the data stewardship model, implement automated quality rules, and maintain catalog hygiene, partnering with Data Engineering and governance teams to embed controls in production.

You will leverage Snowflake, Python, and orchestration tools to operationalize checks, analyze data defects, and elevate data trust across priority datasets.