Hiring: Data Quality Specialist
Company: Leading Commercial Banking Institution
Location: Punjab, Pakistan / On-Site
Employment Type: Full-time
Seniority Level: Executive / Senior Director (14+ years experience)
Estimated Salary: PKR 450,000 - PKR 700,000 per month (Commensurate with senior banking executive scales)
Industry: Banking & Financial Services / Data Governance
Company Overview
Our client is one of Pakistan’s premier commercial banking institutions, maintaining a comprehensive retail, corporate, treasury, and international financial presence across the region. Operating under strict regulatory oversight, the bank is executing an ambitious enterprise data modernization program to establish industry-leading data governance, advanced analytics, and real-time risk controls.
The institution fosters an executive-level environment centered on architectural precision, regulatory compliance, enterprise risk management, and technological innovation.
Key Responsibilities
- Define, operationalize, and maintain the bank's enterprise-wide Data Quality strategy, policies, and control frameworks aligned with DAMA-DMBOK and regulatory standards (e.g., BCBS 239).
- Identify Critical Data Elements (CDEs) across Retail, Corporate, Treasury, Risk, Finance, and Compliance domains while setting precise quality rules, thresholds, and KPIs.
- Establish measurement frameworks tracking six core data dimensions: accuracy, completeness, consistency, validity, timeliness, and uniqueness.
- Design and deploy executive Data Quality dashboards, scorecards, and reporting suites to track institutional data health trends over time.
- Lead root-cause analysis, impact assessments, and cross-functional remediation protocols for systemic data defects and operational anomalies.
- Partner with Data Engineering and IT teams to embed automated data quality validation rules, pipelines, and AI/ML anomaly detection tools into core banking architectures.
- Guide data stewards and platform owners on data lineage, metadata cataloging, data ownership, and governance compliance across Data Lakes and Warehouses.
Experience & Qualifications
- Minimum 14+ years of overall IT and Data Management experience, with at least 10 years dedicated to Data Quality and Data Governance within Banking or Financial Services.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or Finance (Master’s degree preferred).
- Expert understanding of global banking governance frameworks, including DAMA-DMBOK, BCBS 239, and international data privacy regulations (e.g., GDPR).
- Demonstrated track record of leading 2 to 3 large-scale enterprise Data Quality and Governance implementations through production go-live.
- Proven leadership capacity to interface with C-suite executives, risk heads, compliance directors, and engineering leads.
Technical Skills Required
- Enterprise DQ Platforms: Deep hands-on experience with Informatica Data Engineering Quality (DEQ), Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC), and Informatica AXON (or matching enterprise platforms).
- Database & Querying: Advanced mastery of SQL for complex querying, data profiling, validation, optimization, and database debugging.
- Scripting & Analytics: Working proficiency in Python for data profiling, workflow automation, and anomaly detection modeling.
- Visualization & Reporting: Expertise building automated DQ scorecards using Power BI or Qlik.
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The bank offers top-tier executive compensation, comprehensive family medical benefits, performance bonuses, and a central role in driving regional banking technology modernization.