Data Quality Engineer for Trustworthy Data & AI

Embelo; Cape Town; Hybrid; ZAR 420,000 - 660,000; Full time

Job summary

Embelo in Cape Town is expanding its data capability and seeks a hands-on Data Quality Engineer to help clients build trusted data. You will focus on data quality, validation, profiling and reconciliation using SQL and modern quality frameworks.

Work with Data Engineering, MDM and Integration teams to ensure data is accurate, complete and ready for downstream reporting and AI initiatives. Hybrid work in Cape Town with some in-office days.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in Data Quality/Data Engineering/Data Governance/Data Analytics
• Strong SQL skills with data profiling and validation
• Experience designing or implementing data quality rules and automated checks
• Experience with data reconciliation and root-cause analysis
• Familiarity with data quality dimensions (completeness, accuracy, consistency, validity, uniqueness, timeliness)
• Ability to collaborate with data stewards and explain issues to technical and non-technical stakeholders

Responsibilities

• Profile source and target data to identify quality issues and anomalies
• Design and implement automated data validation and quality checks using SQL and data quality frameworks
• Define and maintain data quality rules across ingestion, transformation and publishing pipelines
• Investigate data issues to root cause and coordinate with engineering and business teams
• Triage and prioritize data quality issues with data stewards
• Build monitoring and reporting around data quality metrics and trends
• Support Master Data Management activities including match/merge and survivorship
• Embed data quality controls into pipelines with Data Engineers and Integration teams
• Document data quality rules, findings, exceptions and remediation actions clearly
• Support data governance and stewardship across client data domains
• Establish repeatable data quality standards and engineering practices

Skills

SQL

Data profiling

Data validation

Root cause analysis

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor's degree (Computer Science/Info Systems/Data Science)

Tools

Elementary

Great Expectations

Informatica Data Quality

Databricks

dbt

Job description

Embelo in Cape Town is expanding its data capability and seeks a hands-on Data Quality Engineer to help clients build trusted data. You will focus on data quality, validation, profiling and reconciliation using SQL and modern quality frameworks.

Work with Data Engineering, MDM and Integration teams to ensure data is accurate, complete and ready for downstream reporting and AI initiatives. Hybrid work in Cape Town with some in-office days.