Data Quality Engineering Leader

Scotiabank; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible benefits

Inclusive culture

Job summary

Scotiabank is seeking a Senior Director of Data Quality Engineering to lead enterprise data quality strategy and build scalable Lakehouse-based capabilities. You will align with data owners, engineers, governance, risk, and business leaders to deliver audit-ready controls and measurable improvements in data trust across analytics and regulatory reporting.

You will drive adoption of reusable data quality frameworks, while shaping an organization of data quality engineers and managers to achieve

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, data management, or a related discipline.
• 12+ years of progressive experience in data engineering, data quality, data management, platform engineering, or related technology disciplines, including 7+ years leading engineering teams and 3+ years managing managers or senior technical leaders.
• Depth in financial services or other highly regulated industries, with demonstrated experience delivering audit-ready controls, regulatory reporting quality, operational risk reduction, and executive-level governance outcomes.
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, workflows, and Lakehouse data engineering patterns.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise data quality engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model aligned to Lakehouse architecture.
• Lead the design, delivery, and continuous improvement of scalable enterprise data quality capabilities, including profiling, rules management, and anomaly detection.
• Build and operate data observability capabilities for freshness, volume, schema drift, and distribution changes.
• Productize data quality capabilities as reusable platform services and promote data contracts with explicit quality expectations.
• Lead and develop a high-performing team of data quality engineers and managers.

Skills

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Data governance awareness

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Azure

Job description

Scotiabank is seeking a Senior Director of Data Quality Engineering to lead enterprise data quality strategy and build scalable Lakehouse-based capabilities. You will align with data owners, engineers, governance, risk, and business leaders to deliver audit-ready controls and measurable improvements in data trust across analytics and regulatory reporting.

You will drive adoption of reusable data quality frameworks, while shaping an organization of data quality engineers and managers to achieve