Senior Data Quality Analyst

About this role

Putting people first, every day

BDO is a firm built on a foundation of positive relationships with our people and our clients. Each day, our professionals provide exceptional service, helping clients with advice and insight they can trust. In turn, we offer an award-winning environment that fosters a [people-first culture](https://www.bdo.ca/about/talent-culture) with a high priority on your personal and professional growth.

Your Opportunity

The Data Quality Analyst will play a critical role in analyzing and improving data quality across cross-functional systems within the firm. Operating within the Data Governance team, this person must have a strong sense of data governance—understanding its principles and how data quality fits within the governance framework—even if they are not a governance expert. This is a new role and will require advanced analytical skills, proficiency in SQL and Python, business process insight, and the ability to work collaboratively with data stewards and other stakeholders. The ideal candidate would have an advanced understanding of the end-to-end data process and how integrated data technologies work to perform thorough and accurate root cause analysis.

The candidate must be able to learn and adopt new data quality tools such as Soda, AI-powered data quality platforms, as well as native data quality functions in platforms like Microsoft Purview and Databricks.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze data across multiple, diverse systems to understand business flows, model structures, and potential sources of quality issues.
• Research and understand undocumented or complex data models to support issue investigation and ongoing monitoring.
• Work collaboratively with data stewards to design, document, and implement business-focused data quality rules, translating them into actionable technical requirements for developers and engineers.
• Investigate root causes of data quality problems and provide evidence-based recommendati...