Data Quality & Governance Engineer

Job in London, Greater London, W1B, England, UK

Listing for: Harnham - Data & Analytics Recruitment

Full Time, Part Time position
Listed on 2026-06-22

Job specializations:

IT/Tech
Data Analyst, Data Engineering, Data Security, Data Warehousing

Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 80000 GBP Yearly GBP 80000.00 YEAR

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 to Harry Lack through the 'Apply' link.