Senior Data Quality Specialist Data CDP Global - London

About CDP

CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The world's economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action. In 2021 we launched our new five-year strategy: Accelerating the Rate of Change - find out more here. Visit or follow to find out more.

About the Data Governance & Quality team

The Data Governance and Quality team provides CDP staff with the information, guidance and training needed to ensure our data is accurate, consistent across systems and our products and insights are reliable and trustworthy. This involves setting and aligning standards and definitions to policies that will measure and improve data quality. To attain 'good quality data,' we set clear benchmarks and measures to achieve it. Our goal is to enable CDP to generate the most accurate and reliable insights from the data it needs to deliver our mission.

Job Purpose and Background

The Senior Data Quality Specialist will lead data quality methodologies and reporting frameworks to improve CDP's data. This role supports a strategic focus on data quality and a data-centric culture. Responsibilities include championing and clearly explaining data quality priorities, developing methodologies and processes to embed data quality within team deliverables, creating data quality improvement plans, and reporting across critical data domains. Building and rolling out Power BI dashboards to give the business a tangible feel for the possibilities of having good data. The role involves working with stakeholders to identify and prevent data quality issues, defining high-quality, measurable, and trustworthy data. This hands-on role translates the benefits of good data quality, ensuring it's understood by all data users.

Key responsibilities include:

• Develop methodologies and guidance to analyse, measure, and report on data quality improvements, focusing strongly on accuracy, reliability and consistency across all key CDP data domains.
• Demonstrate strong technical hands-on experience of using SQL and other query/programming languages (e.g., T-SQL and Python) for data extraction, analysis and reporting, with exposure to large and complex datasets.
• Build various Data Quality Dashboards to continuously monitor errors and ensure that data stewards are proactively improving data quality across CDP.
• Apply data governance principles as a key enabler to deliver scalable data products and insights for products and services relying on the data.
• Supervise, motivate, and empower colleagues, promoting a data governance culture where data quality value is recognised within teams across CDP and in the output produced.

You will have the following skills and applied experience:

• Data Quality Analyst Manager or Data Quality Management qualification, or at least 3 years of hands-on experience in a data quality management role.
• Demonstrate strong experience using SQL and other query/programming languages (e.g., T-SQL and Python) for data extraction, analysis and reporting.
• Experienced in leading senior stakeholders to secure buy-in and align activities with strategic goals whilst applying relevant frameworks.
• Strong analytical and technical skills for generating reports and visualizations using tools such as Power BI, Tableau, etc., and communicating insights to drive actionable outcomes.
• Experience in implementing data quality methodologies and principles to ensure the delivery and maintenance of high-quality data assets.
• An understanding of overseeing data quality and governance tools to assess and report data quality issues at an enterprise level.
• A good understanding of the data lifecycle and the effective application of data governance best practices across all phases.
• Analytical, with excellent and diverse problem-solving skills and a keen attention to detail.
• Strong communication and presentation skills in English, with experience delivering training to diverse audiences and group sizes.
• Knowledge of process automation and improvement.

Salary and benefits: £60,000 - £70,000 per annum. Working for a leading people-centric environmental NGO with dedicated, passionate and caring coworkers. 30 days' holiday plus bank holidays, generous non-contributory pension provision, Employee Assistance Programme, life assurance, training and development, flexible working opportunities and other benefits.

Final offer amount depends on multiple factors such as candidates experience and expertise, geographic location, total compensation, and market data. Benefits will be offered based on specific regional requirements. Interested applicants must be eligible to work legally in the UK. We cannot sponsor for this role.

Before you apply

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How to apply:

Please upload your CV in the application form along with a covering letter as an additional document setting out how you meet the required skills and experience or key responsibilities, which should be no more than two pages. We will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis. The closing date is 28th February, 2025. We are looking for the successful candidate to start as soon as possible.