Data Quality Assurance Engineer

Position Summary

For over 19 years, Catalist has been a leader in civic data and data science innovation. Our mission is to provide progressive organizations with the data, software, and services needed to better identify, understand, and communicate with the people they need to engage and mobilize. Our clients include the largest, most influential organizations in the U.S. active in civic engagement, advocacy, and political campaigns.

Catalist is home to a dedicated, creative team of technologists, data scientists, and campaign experts committed to using our talents and technology to nurture a vibrant and growing progressive community.

As a data quality assurance engineer at Catalist, you will have a leading role in efforts to discover actionable insights using the largest repository of individual-level data in progressive politics. The position is responsible for ensuring the quality and accuracy of data throughout its life cycle  ideal candidate will be a highly motivated individual with excellent technical skills, a strong desire to learn new skills, and an interest in progressive politics.

Catalist values creativity and problem-solving. Our work is on the cutting edge of data-driven politics, and your support will help Democratic candidates and progressive organizations conduct successful advocacy and electoral campaigns.

This position reports to the Director of Data QA. The Data Quality Assurance Engineer is a part of a growing Data team that supports all underlying work at Catalist.

This position is included in our CWA bargaining unit.

• Create and execute data quality assurance tests on various datasets
• Present results, both orally and in writing, to technical and non-technical audiences
• Act as an advanced user of all internal and external Catalist tools, data, and products for the purpose of assessing Data Quality
• Utilize programming languages as well as other internal resources to answer questions internally and externally about data and data processing
• Generate and maintain documentation to support all deliverables and to facilitate future replication of tasks

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (large data sets, formulas, graphs, and pivot tables)
• Background check required

• Experience with SQL, Python, or other relational database programming language and shell scripting
• Interest in working with the following platforms:
  Google Big Query, Google Looker, Tableau, Jupyter Notebooks
• Willingness to be a problem solver and produce results in a fast paced environment
• Ability to focus on details and make productive suggestions on ways to streamline and improve processes
• Ability to be creative and personable and articulate ideas clearly Excellent project management skills, including ability to handle multiple projects at once
• Ability and willingness to learn new skills quickly
• Ability to become an internal subject matter expert on various datasets and support other Catalist departments/teams on usage of those datasets