Data Quality & Governance Engineer

Harnham - Data and Analytics Recruitment
London, United Kingdom
Last week
£70,000 – £80,000 pa

Salary

£70,000 – £80,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Security Clearance
Required
Posted
2 Jun 2026 (Last week)

Benefits

Bonus scheme Pension contribution Hybrid working model

DATA QUALITY & GOVERNANCE ENGINEER
£80,000
LONDON

This is a key hire into a growing data and AI function within a regulated financial services environment. The role offers a strong mix of hands-on technical work and data governance ownership, with the chance to shape how data quality and trust is embedded across the business.

THE COMPANY

Our client is a fast-growing financial services organisation providing core banking and technology services to a broad range of businesses, including fintechs and SMEs. They operate in a highly regulated environment and are investing heavily in their data platform as part of continued growth. This role has been created due to increasing demand for trusted, high-quality data across the organisation.

THE ROLE
  • Take ownership of data quality and governance across key business domains
  • Build and maintain data quality metrics using SQL and dbt, ensuring accuracy and reliability
  • Implement and manage the organisation's data governance tooling, including metadata, lineage and documentation
  • Work closely with stakeholders to define data standards, metrics and data definitions
  • Support finance and analytics teams by improving visibility into data quality and source reliability
  • This role is heavily hands-on (circa 75% technical), while also offering real ownership over governance practices and tooling.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
  • Experience in data quality, analytics engineering or data engineering roles
  • Strong SQL skills and hands-on experience with dbt
  • Understanding of data governance concepts such as data lineage, data dictionaries and quality frameworks
  • Experience working with data quality metrics and validation processes
  • Comfortable working with stakeholders and translating business requirements into technical metrics
  • Experience with governance or metadata tools is advantageous
SALARY AND BENEFITS
  • £70,000 - £80,000 base salary
  • Bonus scheme
  • Pension contribution
  • Hybrid working model (2 days per week in London)

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest by sending your CV toHarry Lack through the 'Apply' link.

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