Original job description
Take the next step in your professional journey with our Burnaby client as a Data Quality Analyst on an initial 7-month contract with strong potential for extension. In this critical assignment, you will help advance enterprise data strategy by assessing, profiling, and enhancing high-value data assets across diverse business units. Working alongside forward-thinking project teams and cross-functional partners, you will play an active part in establishing sustainable data quality practices that enable confident decision-making across the entire organization.
Advantages
• Enjoy a flexible hybrid schedule requiring only one day per week on site at the Burnaby office.
• Influence enterprise data strategy through high-visibility data quality and governance initiatives.
• Collaborate within a supportive, multidisciplinary team of project managers and technical specialists.
• Gain direct exposure to enterprise-level data management frameworks and controls.
• Position yourself for continued career growth with potential contract extension opportunities.
Responsibilities
• Profile, assess, and monitor critical data assets to uncover inconsistencies, patterns, and areas for improvement.
• Support the development and adoption of enterprise data quality standards, validation criteria, controls, and operating procedures.
• Define and track clear data quality rules, thresholds, metrics, scorecards, and routine exception reports.
• Conduct thorough root cause analyses on complex data defects and partner with technical teams on remediation plans.
• Support the formal cataloging and governance of Critical Data Elements across key organizational domains.
• Partner with business and technical stakeholders to capture data requirements, define improvement priorities, and track resolutions.
• Deliver targeted guidance, reference documentation, and practical training to ensure organizational alignment on data quality standards.
Qualifications
• Degree in Information Management, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Business, or equivalent practical experience.
• Five or more years of direct experience focused on data quality analysis, data profiling, or data governance.
• Demonstrated proficiency using SQL, business intelligence platforms, data profiling tools, and office spreadsheet applications.
• Strong practical understanding of core data management areas including metadata, master data, data architecture, and data lifecycles.
• Relevant industry certifications such as CDMP, CDQP, or DGSP, or hands-on experience with governance tools like Microsoft Purview, Collibra, or Informatica.
Summary
If you bring a passion for data accuracy and want to make a tangible impact across enterprise systems, we want to hear from you.
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More about this job
Responsibilities
The Data Quality Analyst at Randstad Canada will profile and monitor important data, find errors, and help set data quality rules and standards. They will also investigate the causes of data problems and work with business and technical teams on fixes and training.
Requirements
Candidates need a degree in information management, computer science, data analytics, business, or equivalent experience, plus five or more years in data quality, profiling, or governance. They need SQL, BI platform, data profiling tool and spreadsheet skills, and certifications such as CDMP, CDQP or DGSP are an asset.
Skills
- SQL
- Business intelligence platforms
- Data profiling tools
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Purview
- Collibra
- Informatica
- Data quality analysis
- Data governance
- Metadata management
- Master data management
- Data architecture
- Data lifecycle management
- Root cause analysis
- Data quality metrics and scorecards
- Critical Data Elements
- Data cataloging
- Requirements gathering
- Stakeholder communication
- Training and documentation
Categories
- Data & Analytics
- Technology
- Consulting
Keywords
- Data Quality Analyst
- data quality
- data profiling
- data governance
- SQL
- business intelligence
- BI
- Microsoft Purview
- Collibra
- Informatica
- metadata management
- master data management
- data architecture
- Critical Data Elements
- data cataloging
- CDMP
- CDQP
- DGSP
- Excel
- contract
Tools
- SQL
- Microsoft Purview
- Collibra
- Informatica
Fields of study
- Information Management
- Computer Science
- Data Analytics
- Business
