Director of Data Quality & Observability

Ziff Davis; Dallas (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work and travel opportunities

Job summary

Ookla, an Accenture Company, seeks a Data Quality & Observability Lead to build and lead the enterprise data quality framework, monitoring capabilities, and observability practices across analytics, AI/ML, and products. Hybrid work with ~25% travel to engage stakeholders and drive program execution.

The role partners with data engineering, analytics, and governance teams to embed quality across pipelines and data products, defining standards and KPIs for data health and trust.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in data quality frameworks, observability, monitoring
• Understanding of pipelines, warehousing, and modern data stack components
• Experience designing enterprise data quality programs with rules engines
• Familiarity with data observability platforms and tooling
• Strong communication and stakeholder management
• Ability to translate data quality into business language for executives
• Strategic mindset balancing governance and delivery

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise data quality framework
• Build and operate data observability to monitor health, freshness, volume, schema changes
• Embed quality checks and SLAs across pipelines and data products
• Define and track data quality KPIs; communicate status to leadership
• Lead root cause analysis and remediation for quality incidents
• Champion data-as-a-product mindset across business and technology
• Evaluate and manage data quality and observability tooling
• Manage and develop the Data Quality Analyst function and cross-functional stewards

Skills

Data quality

Data observability

Data monitoring

Data reliability

Data pipelines

Data warehousing

Transformation tools

Modern data stack

Stakeholder management

Executive communication

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Monte Carlo

Great Expectations

Soda

dbt tests

Job description

Ookla, an Accenture Company, seeks a Data Quality & Observability Lead to build and lead the enterprise data quality framework, monitoring capabilities, and observability practices across analytics, AI/ML, and products. Hybrid work with ~25% travel to engage stakeholders and drive program execution.

The role partners with data engineering, analytics, and governance teams to embed quality across pipelines and data products, defining standards and KPIs for data health and trust.