Data Operations Lead: Mastering Quality & Lifecycle

Peregrine Advisors; Washington; On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

OPEN Data Jobs is seeking a Data Manager to oversee data intake, validation, and publication workflows. The role focuses on maintaining data quality, establishing reliable handoffs among data producers, engineers, stewards, and consumers, and driving continuous improvements in data operations.

The ideal candidate has experience with data-lifecycle processes, SQL-based validation, and developing repeatable data-management routines that support reporting, analytics, or AI efforts across complex

Qualifications

• Experience operating data-quality, data-lifecycle, publication, or data-service processes.
• Structured data handling and validation techniques.
• Ability to coordinate data producers, technical teams, stewards, and consumers.

Responsibilities

• Data intake, validation, correction, and publication workflows with clear owners and service expectations.
• Data-quality checks, reconciliations, issue queues, and root-cause improvement routines.
• Operational dashboards and reporting of timeliness, completeness, accuracy, and unresolved issues.
• Handoffs among data producers, stewards, engineers, and data consumers.
• Develop repeatable processes for datasets used in reporting, analytics, or AI applications.

Skills

Data quality

Data lifecycle

SQL

Validation methods

Reconciliation

Workflow design

Issue management

Continuous improvement

Coordination

Data governance

Job description

OPEN Data Jobs is seeking a Data Manager to oversee data intake, validation, and publication workflows. The role focuses on maintaining data quality, establishing reliable handoffs among data producers, engineers, stewards, and consumers, and driving continuous improvements in data operations.

The ideal candidate has experience with data-lifecycle processes, SQL-based validation, and developing repeatable data-management routines that support reporting, analytics, or AI efforts across complex