Head of Data Quality Assurance @ Octus

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Octus

Octus is a leading global provider of credit intelligence, data, and analytics. Since 2013, tens of thousands of professionals across hedge fund, investment banking, management consulting, and law firm verticals have come to rely on Octus to make better, faster, and more confident decisions in pace with the fast-moving credit markets.
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Working at Octus

Octus hires growth-minded innovators and trailblazers across the globe to drive our business and culture. Our core values – Action Oriented, Customer First Mindset, Effective Team Players, and Driven to Excel – define an organizational ethos that’s as high-performing as it is human. Among other perks, Octus employees enjoy competitive health benefits, matched 401k and pension plans, PTO, generous parental leave, gym subsidies, educational reimbursements for career development, recognition programs, pet-friendly offices (US only), and much more.

Role

The Head of Data Quality Assurance will oversee the design, documentation, implementation and maintenance of a framework of tools and procedures that ensure the highest levels of data quality for client-facing and internal datasets across Octus.

Responsibilities:

Design, implement and manage procedures to analyze and improve data quality. Validate data and identify issues, both at scale and within data ops workflows.
This includes:

Drive the creation and execution of automated business rule checks and functional testing scripts.
Define and help enforce prescriptive guidelines for data creation and ingestion processes
Collaborate with Dataset Owners to establish and maintain quality standards
Define accuracy/completeness/timeliness metrics that comply with product requirements and data governance guidelines
Design and implement quality testing protocols tailored for specific datasets
Help drive the adoption of QA tools, procedures, and guidelines across the Octus organization
Incident management: identify, prioritize, track, escalate and resolve data-related issues
Documentation: QA procedures, standards and tools
Reporting: Create, manage and present data quality reporting metrics/dashboard
Ensure the Data Quality Assurance team achieves the accuracy/completeness/timeliness metric targets

Requirements:

8+ years of database management experience
BS Degree in either Computer Science or Finance related field
Demonstrable QA experience

Equal Employment Opportunity

Octus is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We strive to create an inclusive and diverse work environment where all individuals are valued, respected, and treated fairly. We believe that diversity enriches our workplace and enhances our ability to innovate and succeed.

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