Data Quality Analyst – Wellington, 24-Month

New Zealand Government; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 79,000 - 96,000; Full time

Job summary

Ministry of Social Development (MSD) is seeking a Data Analyst focused on data quality to improve the quality, reliability, and value of data across MSD. You will collaborate with business and technical teams to identify data quality issues, understand causes, and support solutions that improve how data is managed and used.

This role helps define data quality standards, monitor key data, investigate issues, and support ongoing improvements, ensuring MSD's data is trusted, accurate, and fit for

Qualifications

• Relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent experience in data, information management, statistics, computer science, or a related field.
• Experience analysing data and identifying data quality issues.
• Strong SQL skills and experience working with large datasets.

Responsibilities

• Identify data quality issues and root causes.
• Define data quality standards and monitoring.
• Collaborate with data owners, stewards, engineers and analysts to implement improvements.
• Develop dashboards, scorecards, or monitoring reports.

Skills

SQL

Data analysis

Data quality

Data governance

Stakeholder mgmt

Communication

Te Tiriti Waitangi knowledge

Root cause analysis

Education

Tertiary qualification in data/IT

Job description

Ministry of Social Development (MSD) is seeking a Data Analyst focused on data quality to improve the quality, reliability, and value of data across MSD. You will collaborate with business and technical teams to identify data quality issues, understand causes, and support solutions that improve how data is managed and used.

This role helps define data quality standards, monitor key data, investigate issues, and support ongoing improvements, ensuring MSD's data is trusted, accurate, and fit for