Data Quality Consultant: Rules, Metrics & Remediation

DAI Consultancy; Doha; On-site; QAR 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

DAI Consultancy in Qatar is seeking a Data Quality Consultant who helps clients measure and improve data fitness for operational and analytical use. The role profiles data, defines quality dimensions and rules, sets thresholds, monitors outcomes and supports remediation.

The consultant works with Data Owners, Data Stewards, business experts, architects and engineers to align quality with real business needs and authoritative sources.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in data-related field or equivalent experience.
• Typically 4-8 years in data quality, data analysis or related data-management work.

Responsibilities

• Identify critical datasets requiring data-quality management.
• Profile data to identify completeness, validity, consistency and other issues.
• Define data-quality rules, thresholds, reference sources and calculation logic.
• Develop quality assessment plans, rule registers, scorecards and monitoring specs.
• Calculate and validate quality results and explain implications for use.
• Maintain data-quality issue registers and prioritise by impact and urgency.
• Facilitate root-cause analysis across process, people, system and data-design factors.
• Develop remediation plans with owners, target dates and validation steps.
• Coordinate quality controls with metadata, master data and analytics teams.
• Define dashboards and reporting routines for ongoing monitoring.
• Validate remediation outcomes and distinguish corrected records from root causes.
• Train client teams to maintain rules and govern exceptions.

Skills

Data profiling

Rule design

Root-cause analysis

SQL and analysis

Issue prioritization

Quality monitoring

Analytical rigour

Root-cause thinking

Evidence discipline

Continuous improvement

Facilitating rule-definition

Explaining calculations

Writing precise rules

Working with data owners

Education

Bachelor's degree in data science, statistics, computer science, information systems or a related field

Equivalent combination of education and consulting/implementation experience

Tools

SQL

Job description

DAI Consultancy in Qatar is seeking a Data Quality Consultant who helps clients measure and improve data fitness for operational and analytical use. The role profiles data, defines quality dimensions and rules, sets thresholds, monitors outcomes and supports remediation.

The consultant works with Data Owners, Data Stewards, business experts, architects and engineers to align quality with real business needs and authoritative sources.