Senior Director, Data Quality & Observability

Scotiabank; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Scotiabank in Dallas seeks a Senior Director of Data Quality Engineering to define and scale data quality capabilities across analytics, regulatory reporting, and operational processes on a Databricks Lakehouse platform.

You will partner with senior leaders to establish enterprise-wide standards, oversee profiling, rule management, anomaly detection, and data contracts, and drive automated quality checks across end-to-end pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, data management, or a related discipline.
• 12+ years in data engineering, data quality, data management, platform engineering or related tech fields, incl. 7+ years leading teams
• Hands-on experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, and Lakehouse data engineering patterns
• Strong understanding of data quality dimensions, SLAs/SLOs, data contracts, and governance processes

Responsibilities

• Define and own the enterprise data quality engineering strategy, roadmap, and operating model.
• Lead design, delivery, and continuous improvement of scalable data quality capabilities across Bronze, Silver, and Gold layers.

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, information technology, data management, or a related discipline

Tools

Databricks

Delta Lake

Unity Catalog

Lakehouse patterns

Data quality platforms

Profiling tools

Observability frameworks

Rule engines

Monitoring capabilities

Metadata catalog

Azure cloud

Job description

Scotiabank in Dallas seeks a Senior Director of Data Quality Engineering to define and scale data quality capabilities across analytics, regulatory reporting, and operational processes on a Databricks Lakehouse platform.

You will partner with senior leaders to establish enterprise-wide standards, oversee profiling, rule management, anomaly detection, and data contracts, and drive automated quality checks across end-to-end pipelines.