Data Quality Specialist

Linklaters

Linklaters is a global law firm, providing legal services in 20 countries and through 30 offices.

Linklaters is a people business. Being best in class in the eyes of our clients means that our people must be exceptional.

We look not only for brilliant minds, but for people who will thrive in our environment: people who love working collaboratively and demonstrate the innovative, efficient, agile, entrepreneurial, and responsible mind-set we aim to bring to every interaction.

Ours is an environment of outperformance. We achieve this not with targets and incentives, but by fostering a positive, supportive, fair, and open atmosphere.

We respect and value difference but insist on inclusivity. We celebrate all aspects of diversity and challenge any form of bias. This is vital to our ability to work as one team, with a common goal.

Your Role

Supports the effective management, quality, and governance of data across the Firm by helping to maintain trusted, consistent, and well-controlled data used in business processes, reporting, and decision-making. Works with business and technology stakeholders to support data standards, improve data quality, clarify data definitions, and promote good data management practices across relevant systems and processes.

• Proactively works with business stakeholders to define, test and implement data quality testing and monitoring to improve the consistency and usability of data across systems and teams,

• Acts as the day-to-day central point of contact for the data quality committee, preparing submissions on data quality issues and proactively suggesting resolutions to identified data quality issues

• Helps identify, investigate, and resolve data issues, working with stakeholders to understand root causes and support timely remediation.

• Supports data quality monitoring and reporting, including the preparation of dashboards, scorecards, and regular updates on issues, trends, risks, and improvements.

• Contributes to data governance activities by helping to document data flows, ownership, controls, lineage, and usage across relevant datasets and processes.

• Supports adherence to data governance policies, standards, controls, and regulatory requirements relevant to the handling and management of data.

• Works closely with cross-functional teams, including business users, product owners, technology teams, data owners, and other stakeholders, to ensure data quality principals are embedded across the firm.

• Provides practical guidance to stakeholders on good data management practices, including the correct creation, maintenance, use, and handling of data.

• Supports change initiatives, projects, and process improvements by helping to ensure data requirements, controls, and quality considerations are addressed.

• Contributes to continuous improvement activities that strengthen data stewardship, governance, and data quality practices across the Firm.

About You

• Proven ability to work with data in a structured and detail-focused way, with experience supporting data quality, data governance, or data management activities.
• Experience maintaining or supporting data quality and proven use of data quality systems and processes as part of an integrated data team
• Good understanding of data quality principles, including accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and validity.
• Experience working with cross-functional stakeholders to investigate data issues, clarify requirements, and support improvements in data quality and control.
• The ability to model, organise, analyse, and interpret data and related information to identify issues, trends, and opportunities for improvement.
• Experience preparing clear reporting, documentation, or dashboards for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Familiarity with data governance principles, metadata, data lineage, ownership models, and control frameworks.
• The ability to translate data-related issues into clear, practical actions and recommendations for stakeholders.
• Proficiency in digital tools and reporting systems used for data quality monitoring and reporting
• Strong organisational and time management skills, capable of managing multiple priorities and delivering work to deadlines.
• A careful and methodical approach, with strong attention to detail and a commitment to improving the reliability and usability of data.
• Comfortable working in an evolving environment, helping to establish and improve processes, standards, and ways of working where needed.

Our Benefits

Health & Wellbeing:

• Private Medical Insurance
• Free in-house fitness centre and subsidised health club memberships
• Free onsite GP service and periodic health assessments

Finance:

• Pension and flexible savings options
• Income protection and life assurance
• Mortgage advice and will-writing services

Family & Lifestyle:

• Electric car and cycle to work schemes
• Emergency family care
• Additional holiday/birthday leave
• Maternity/paternity/shared parental leave
• Travel insurance and season ticket loan
• Option to join sports and social clubs, as well as our employee networks groups (such as our Gender Equality Network, With Pride, or Social Mobility Networks)

If you think this role would suit you, please click apply below. We look forward to hearing from you!

Technical Skills

This list of duties and responsibilities above is not exhaustive.  It is intended to describe the general content of, and requirements for, the performance of this job. As such, the role may also include the undertaking of additional tasks as required.