Data Quality Analyst

IN SHORT

As a Data Quality Analyst , you will play a key role in ensuring that data across SEFE is accurate, complete, consistent, and fit for purpose. Combining analytical expertise with business understanding, you will investigate data quality issues, identify root causes, and drive sustainable improvements that enhance trust in data. Your work will support informed decision-making, effective governance, and the delivery of high-quality data across the organisation.

WHAT WILL YOU DO

Perform data profiling and quality assessments to monitor accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, and validity across critical datasets.

Identify, investigate, and resolve data quality issues by conducting root cause analysis and working with stakeholders to implement corrective and preventative actions.

Define, implement, and monitor automated data quality rules and validation checks across data pipelines, reporting environments, and transformation processes.

Develop and maintain data quality dashboards, metrics, and reporting that provide visibility of data quality performance and support governance objectives.

Collaborate with data engineers, business analysts, migration teams, subject matter experts, and system owners to embed quality controls throughout the data lifecycle.

Drive continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to automate validation, cleansing, and exception management processes while promoting best practice data governance and stewardship.

WHAT WILL YOU BRING

Proven experience delivering data quality improvement initiatives, ideally across multiple business environments; experience within a regulated industry is advantageous.

Strong understanding of data profiling, data quality assessment techniques, remediation approaches, and data governance principles.

Hands-on experience using SQL to analyse, validate, reconcile, and investigate data issues.

Familiarity with data quality and governance tools such as Microsoft Purview, along with an understanding of ETL processes and data transformation activities.

Naturally inquisitive, analytical, and methodical, with the ability to translate business requirements into measurable technical validation rules.

Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge assumptions and present data-driven insights clearly and effectively.

You don’t need to meet every requirement. If the role excites you, we’d love to hear from you.

ABOUT US

SEFE is an international energy company anchored in Europe, delivering energy solutions that ensure reliable and affordable supply. Our activities span the entire energy value chain – from origination and trading to sales, transport and storage. With decades of trading expertise and a growing LNG portfolio, SEFE is one of Europe’s leading suppliers to industrial customers, providing more than 200 TWh of gas and power each year. We supply over 50,000 clients, from small businesses to municipalities and multinational organisations. By investing in clean energies, we support our customers on their decarbonisation journey and contribute to the energy transition. SEFE employs over 2,000 people worldwide and is owned by the Federal Government of Germany.

Securing energy – now and for the future.

OUR BENEFITS

We’re committed to creating an inclusive environment that embraces diversity and fosters the development of knowledge, skills, and experience. Whatever your role, you’ll find an open, welcoming atmosphere that empowers you, and recognises your contribution.

This is a contract role, initially for 6 months with the potential to extend. Based in our Manchester office, conveniently located close to travel networks we offer the opportunity to follow a hybrid working model.

Join SEFE and help us secure gas supply across Europe and shape a better, more sustainable tomorrow.