Senior Data Quality & Observability Lead

McKesson Corporation; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 105,000 - 174,000; Full time

Job summary

McKesson is seeking a Senior Data Quality Analyst to design and mature a data quality capability from the ground up. You will collaborate with Data Domain Officers, stakeholders, and engineering teams to encode business meaning into testable quality rules and observability services.

Responsibilities include building an enterprise framework, establishing SLAs/SLOs, and integrating quality checks across pipelines while ensuring regulatory compliance in healthcare data.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business Administration, or related field (Master's preferred) or related experience.
• 7+ years of experience in data quality, data observability, data engineering, or data governance, including building a data quality capability in a large organization.
• Proven experience designing data quality frameworks and implementing observability tooling and practices.
• Strong understanding of data pipelines, architecture, and ETL/ELT and streaming workflows.
• Hands-on experience with data quality/observability platforms and catalog/lineage tools such as Collibra, Informatica, Monte Carlo, Great Expectations, Soda; Alation/Informatica Axon.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the enterprise data quality framework with dimensions, scoring, thresholds, and escalation paths.
• Stand up data observability capabilities across priority pipelines and datasets.
• Define and operationalize data quality rules with data owners and stewards.
• Build reusable rule libraries, dashboards, and alerting for downstream teams.
• Conduct data quality assessments and drive remediation with owners and engineering teams.
• Evaluate and administer data quality tooling and catalog/lineage stack.
• Establish data quality SLAs/SLOs and report KPIs to leadership.
• Collaborate with legal, compliance, and privacy teams to meet regulatory requirements.

Skills

Data quality

Data observability

SQL

Python

Data governance

ETL/ELT

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology/Computer Science/Business Administration

Master's degree preferred

Tools

Collibra

Informatica

Monte Carlo

Great Expectations

Soda

Job description

McKesson is seeking a Senior Data Quality Analyst to design and mature a data quality capability from the ground up. You will collaborate with Data Domain Officers, stakeholders, and engineering teams to encode business meaning into testable quality rules and observability services.

Responsibilities include building an enterprise framework, establishing SLAs/SLOs, and integrating quality checks across pipelines while ensuring regulatory compliance in healthcare data.