Data Quality Lead — AI-Driven Data Excellence

Jobtailor; New Jersey; On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Data Quality Lead to drive the data quality strategy across datasets within the One Data Platform. You will prioritize critical commercial domains, define standards, and monitor quality metrics to ensure timely, accurate data for analytics and AI use cases.

You will lead profiling, validation, and issue triage, coordinating with data engineering, product teams, and external providers to implement corrective actions and prevent recurrence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, data analytics, computer science, engineering, business, life sciences, or related field.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in data quality or data management.
• Strong knowledge of the pharmaceutical industry and commercial pharma business processes.
• Experience defining data quality rules and applying accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, validity, and uniqueness dimensions.
• Experience supporting enterprise data platforms, cloud data environments, analytics platforms, or governed data products.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution and continuous improvement of the data quality strategy across datasets.
• Prioritize critical commercial and enterprise data domains based on business impact and risk.
• Define and maintain data quality standards, controls, acceptance criteria, and monitoring practices.
• Establish quality requirements and readiness checks for onboarding new data sources and products.
• Develop and track data quality metrics, scorecards, service expectations, and improvement plans.
• Improve data readiness for business, AI, and analytics use cases.
• Explore responsible AI-enabled methods for identifying, explaining, prioritizing, and preventing data quality issues.
• Lead day-to-day data profiling, validation, reconciliation, exception management, and issue triage across the One Data Platform.
• Monitor dashboards and identify trends, recurring defects, and operational risks.
• Coordinate root-cause analysis with data engineering, source-system teams, data providers, and business owners.
• Drive corrective and preventive actions, track issue ownership, and ensure timely remediation.
• Validate that fixes address root causes without downstream business impact.
• Partner with commercial business teams, data product owners, master data management, data governance, analytics teams, and external data providers.
• Improve the quality, consistency, and timeliness of inbound commercial data.
• Provide functional leadership for delivery partners, establish priorities, develop team capabilities, and ensure quality and timely data-quality services.

Skills

Data Quality Management

SQL Proficiency

Pharmaceutical Industry Knowledge

AI-Assisted Data Techniques

Cross-Functional Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in information systems or related field

Tools

Snowflake

AWS

Databricks

Azure

Data Governance Tools

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking an experienced Data Quality Lead to drive the data quality strategy across datasets within the One Data Platform. You will prioritize critical commercial domains, define standards, and monitor quality metrics to ensure timely, accurate data for analytics and AI use cases.

You will lead profiling, validation, and issue triage, coordinating with data engineering, product teams, and external providers to implement corrective actions and prevent recurrence.