Data Quality Specialist

DIGITAL LUXURY GROUP, DLG SA; Remote; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading luxury data solutions provider based in South Africa is seeking a Data Quality Specialist. The role focuses on ensuring the reliability of data for their AI-driven platform. Responsibilities include validating data pipelines, cleansing data, and collaborating with AI Engineers. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and 2+ years in data quality, proficient in SQL and Python. This fully remote position offers a competitive salary package ranging from R40,000 to R45,000 per month.

Benefits

Remote-friendly role with international collaboration

Direct exposure to senior leadership

Opportunity for growth in luxury industry

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in data quality, data operations, or similar hands-on data role.
• Strong ownership and self-drive required.
• Strong English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure operational excellence of data across LuxuryIQ.
• Validate data pipelines, monitor data freshness.
• Cleanse, standardize, and enrich data.

Skills

SQL for data querying

Python for automation and scripting

Data quality processes

Attention to detail

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

BigQuery

Data visualization tools

Job description

Overview

DLG (Digital Luxury Group) is a Swiss-headquartered company building an AI-powered market intelligence platform used by leading luxury brands to understand their markets, competitors, and consumers. Our platform processes millions of data points across search trends, social signals, and market movements to give luxury executives clarity they can't get anywhere else.

What you’ll do

As a Data Quality Specialist, you will ensure the operational excellence of data across LuxuryIQ. You will be responsible for implementing, executing, and maintaining data quality processes that guarantee accurate, complete, and reliable data for our AI-driven insights.

• Validate data pipelines across LuxuryIQ, including search trends, social signals, and market data feeds
• Monitor data freshness and timeliness to ensure insights reflect current market conditions
• Cleanse, standardize, and enrich data — including brand taxonomy and entity mapping
• Build and maintain automated data quality checks in BigQuery and Python
• Identify and resolve anomalies, duplicates, and inconsistencies across datasets
• Collaborate with AI Engineers to ensure data meets requirements for models and analytics
• Create dashboards to track data health and pipeline performance
• Document validation rules, procedures, and data dictionaries
• Support incident resolution and escalate critical data issues

Requirements

• Bachelor\'s degree in a relevant field
• 2+ years of experience in data quality, data operations, or similar hands-on data role
• Proficiency in SQL for data querying and validation
• Working knowledge of Python for automation and scripting
• Experience with BigQuery or similar cloud data platforms
• Strong English communication skills
• Strong ownership, self-drive and attention to detail

Nice to have

• Experience in Luxury industry (watches, jewelry, or fashion)
• Familiarity with e-commerce and social media datasets
• Experience with data quality tools (Great Expectations, dbt tests, Soda, or similar)
• Familiarity with data visualization tools (Looker Studio or similar)
• Understanding of AI/ML data requirements
• Experience validating data from external APIs

This is a fully remote position based in South Africa.

What we offer

Compensation:

R40,000 – R45,000 per month, depending on experience

• Remote-friendly role with international team collaboration across Switzerland, the UK and China
• Direct exposure to senior leadership — no layers of middle management
• Opportunity to grow with a platform that\'s scaling across the luxury industry
• Wellbeing and learning support