Data Quality Analyst

Mutual of Omaha Mortgage; San Diego (CA); Remote; USD 50,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading mortgage company is seeking a Data Quality Analyst to ensure the integrity of data across its lifecycle. This fully remote position involves testing data quality, regulatory reporting, and documentation, requiring a strong understanding of data pipelines and validation procedures. Ideal candidates will have 2-5 years of experience, proficiency in MS SQL Server, and familiarity with Power BI.

Qualifications

• 2-5 years’ experience in a data focused role.
• Core understanding of data pipeline including ingestion, transformation, modeling, and preparation.
• Mortgage experience strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Test and validate new data sourced by the data engineering team.
• Ongoing monitoring of exceptions and engagement with business partners.
• Update and maintain data lineage and definitions of primary data models.

Skills

Data validation procedures

Data pipeline understanding

Strong communication skills

Critical thinking

Tools

MS SQL Server

Power BI

Git

Job description

Data Quality Analyst

Compensation Range: $50,000 - $65,000

The Mortgage Business Intelligence & Analytics team oversees all activities and functions involved with the company’s Business Intelligence platform, giving mortgage company business leaders access to reliable, actionable data to better manage and understand the business and drive company growth.

We are seeking a data analyst to focus on continuous auditing of our data quality. This role will be responsible for the oversight of our data throughout its lifecycle, including ingestion, transformation, and presentation within reporting. They will partner closely with the data engineering team to test new data sources and ensure parity with production systems, and proper modeling for our reporting environment. The Data Quality Analyst will also contribute to the documentation, development, and maintenance of our reports.

What you will be doing:

Data Quality (35%)

• Test and validate new data sourced by the data engineering team including 1:1 validation against production systems
• Ongoing validation of primary and derived tables
• Periodic review of reports to ensure parity across reporting
• Assist with peer reviews of team’s work

Regulatory Reporting (20%)

• Ongoing monitoring of exceptions, including engagement with business partners to resolve data discrepancies
• Collection and curation of data points from business partners
• Execution of regulatory data preparation processes
• Documented validation of datasets against system of record

Documentation (15%)

• Update and maintain data lineage and definitions of our primary data models
• Create metadata for existing and new reports

Maintenance (20%)

• Make minor changes and updates to existing reports as needed
• Submit pull requests for changes to views used for reporting
• Continuous enhancement of semantic models including efficiency audits

Team Support & Other Duties (10%)

• Provide backfill support for ongoing team work
• Assist on specific projects as needed

Qualifications

• 2-5 years’ experience in a data focused role
• Core understanding of data pipeline including ingestion, transformation, modeling, and preparation
• Strong understanding of data validation procedures including system parity, checksum, row-level, object-level, and incremental change validations
• Experience with documenting and maintaining validation logs
• Report development and data visualization experience
• Ability to independently trace and resolve issues through research and data mining
• Mortgage experience strongly preferred

Required Skills

• Intermediate to Advanced proficiency with MS SQL Server including:
  • Standard data mining
  • Advanced querying/window methods
  • Create/read views and stored procedures
  • Joins across multivariate datasets including multiple keys
  • Data normalization
• Basic to Intermediate proficiency with Power BI including
  • Power Query
  • Semantic Models
  • DAX
  • Report design and layout
• VCS such as Git or TFS
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Critical thinking
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Fabric a plus

This opportunity is fully remote with the option to work from our offices in San Diego, CA, Irvine, CA, or Omaha, NE for those who prefer an office environment. You will be joining a dynamic, fully remote team which is distributed across pacific, central, and eastern time zones and supporting our business across all US time zones.

We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship for this role.