***HIRING*** - 3 Month Contract (Extendable)

Job Title – Data Quality Engineer (Databricks).

Salary – AED 35,000 - 38,000 Per Month.

Contract Length – 3 Months – Extendable.

Location – Dubai.

Start Date – ASAP.

Role Overview

The Data Quality Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing, and operating the client's enterprise data quality framework within the Databricks platform. The role will deliver automated profiling, quality rule execution, cleansing, monitoring, remediation support, and quality reporting capabilities across 170 datasets and 1,346 prioritised Critical Data Elements (CDEs).

Working closely with Data Modellers, Data Catalogue Specialists, business data owners, and platform engineers, the Data Quality Engineer will establish scalable and reusable quality controls that improve trust, accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, validity, and uniqueness across the client's data estate.

Key Responsibilities

Databricks Platform Configuration and Administration

Configure and manage the Databricks environment supporting enterprise data quality operations.
Establish and maintain:
Compute clusters.
PySpark notebook frameworks.
Delta Lake storage structures.
Unity Catalog integration.
Optimise platform performance for large-scale profiling and rule execution across all in-scope datasets and CDEs.
Implement development, testing, and production deployment standards for data quality assets.

Data Profiling and Quality Assessment

Design and develop AI-assisted profiling notebooks using PySpark.
Perform baseline data quality assessments across the six quality dimensions:
Completeness.
Accuracy.
Consistency.
Validity.
Timeliness.
Uniqueness.
Capture and analyse:
Null value rates.
Duplicate records.
Invalid values.
Format violations.
Outliers.
Schema drift.
Produce quality profiling outputs for all prioritised CDEs and datasets.

Data Quality Rule Factory Development

Design and implement a reusable Data Quality Rule Factory.
Build parameterised PySpark-based rule templates capable of supporting large-scale rule deployment.
Enable automated generation and management of approximately 6,730 data quality rules without manual rule-by-rule development.
Ensure rules are reusable, configurable, and maintainable across multiple datasets and domains.

Data Quality Controls and Pipeline Integration

Deploy quality rules as reusable Databricks Jobs integrated into Delta Lake processing pipelines.
Embed quality controls within bronze, silver, and gold processing stages.
Implement automated quality gates preventing data progression where defined thresholds are not met.
Maintain rule traceability and execution history for audit and governance purposes.

Data Cleansing and Quality Improvement

Develop automated remediation and cleansing pipelines using PySpark.
Implement:
Standardisation routines.
Data enrichment processes.
Deduplication logic.
Schema harmonisation controls.
Deploy machine learning models managed through MLflow for:
Anomaly detection.
Exact duplicate detection.
Fuzzy matching and duplicate identification.
Ensure all AI and ML recommendations are explainable, auditable, and routed through human-in-the-loop validation processes where required.

Exception Management and Reprocessing

Design and manage exception handling processes for failed quality records.
Implement quarantine Delta Lake tables serving as the Failed Record Register.
Capture and maintain:
Failure reason.
Associated CDE.
Rule reference.
Processing timestamp.
Resolution status.
Develop reprocessing workflows to support correction and controlled re-ingestion of remediated records.

Data Quality Metrics and Reporting

Develop Delta Lake metric aggregation structures supporting enterprise quality reporting.
Calculate and publish:
Data Quality Index (DQI) scores.
Dimension-level quality metrics.
Rule pass/fail rates.
Dataset compliance scores.
SLA adherence indicators.
Provide curated outputs to support Power BI quality dashboards and executive reporting.

Monitoring, Alerting and Predictive Quality Management

Configure automated quality monitoring and alerting mechanisms.
Implement threshold-based notifications using:
Databricks SQL Alerts.
Azure Monitor integrations.
Develop predictive risk scoring models to identify datasets at risk of future quality degradation.
Support proactive quality management and operational intervention activities.

Root Cause Analysis and Remediation Support

Apply Databricks machine learning and pattern analysis techniques to profiling and rule execution outputs.
Support AI-assisted root cause analysis across established remediation categories.
Identify recurring quality issues, systemic defects, and process breakdowns.
Produce prioritised remediation datasets for business and operational stakeholders.
Export remediation outputs to Power BI and Excel to support:
Remediation Tiering Matrix.
Prioritisation Scoring Models.
Governance reporting processes.

Governance, Compliance and Stakeholder Engagement

Collaborate with Data Modellers and Data Catalogue Specialists to ensure quality controls align with authoritative data definitions and metadata standards.
Support DDA and DGE governance processes by producing required quality artefacts and evidence.
Maintain documentation, version control, and audit trails for all quality assets, rules, models, and processes.
Participate in quality reviews, governance forums, and stakeholder workshops.

Required Skills and Experience

Strong experience designing and implementing enterprise Data Quality frameworks.
Advanced Databricks engineering experience.
Strong PySpark development skills.
Experience with:
Delta Lake.
Unity Catalog.
Databricks Workflows and Jobs.
Databricks SQL.
Experience building scalable data validation and quality rule frameworks.
Knowledge of machine learning techniques for anomaly detection and data quality monitoring.
Experience using MLflow for model management and deployment.
Strong understanding of data governance, metadata management, and data lifecycle processes.
Experience integrating data quality metrics into reporting platforms such as Power BI.
Knowledge of cloud-based data engineering and modern lakehouse architectures.

Deliverables

Configured Databricks Data Quality environment.
Enterprise Data Quality Rule Factory.
AI-assisted profiling notebooks and baseline assessment outputs.
Automated data quality validation and gating processes.
Data cleansing and remediation pipelines.
Failed Record Register and reprocessing workflows.
Data Quality metric aggregation tables.
DQI reporting feeds and dashboard datasets.
Predictive quality monitoring and alerting solutions.
Root Cause Analysis and remediation support datasets.
Governance, audit, and compliance artefacts supporting DDA and DGE reviews.

Regards,

Ollie