Senior Data Quality Analyst

Job Title: Senior Data Quality Analyst
Target Start Date: Q1 2026
Contract Type: Permanent, Full Time
Salary Range: £54,400 - £81,600 depending on experience
Location: Eastleigh, Hybrid (1x week)
Closing Date for applications: 17th December

Senior Data Quality Analyst

We're building a new Data Quality team within our Enterprise Data Services function, and we're looking for a highly skilled and motivated Senior Data Quality Analyst to help lead the delivery of our data quality strategy and manage a growing team. This is a fantastic opportunity to play a pivotal role in embedding best practices, driving continuous improvement, and supporting transformation programmes across Ageas.
This role offers potential to develop into a Data Quality Lead position as the team and function mature.

Main Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and direction to the Data Quality team, fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, and data excellence.
• Lead the execution of the Ageas Data Quality Strategy.
• Deliver high quality, consistent, and measurable data quality services across the organisation.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align data quality activities with business goals and our Enterprise Data Strategy.
• Inform the development and maintenance of the Data Quality roadmap by providing insights from operational experience and project delivery.
• Monitor and report on Data Quality KPIs, identifying trends and opportunities for improvement.
• Lead components of the implementation and optimisation of data quality tooling, ensuring effective roll out of the tool and adoption of ways of working.
• Act as a subject matter expert, guiding Data Stewards, Data Managers, and business users.
• Lead issue management processes and contribute to continuous improvement initiatives.
• Provide training and coaching to junior team members and stakeholders.
• Support transformation programmes including data migration, integration, and consolidation.
• Promote a culture of collaboration, accountability, and data excellence.

Skills and Experience

• Proven leadership experience, including managing and developing a team within a large enterprise environment.
• 5+ years in a data focused role, with at least 1 year of hands on experience in data quality.
• Proven ability to work independently and lead the delivery of data initiatives.
• Experience working with data quality tools and ideally Collibra.
• Hands on experience managing live data migrations, ensuring data integrity and business continuity.
• Strong SQL skills and familiarity with Python for data analysis and automation.
• Strong knowledge of Data Governance best practice and how it compliments Data Quality operations and processes.
• Experience working with Snowflake and Databricks platforms.
• A proactive mindset with the confidence to challenge existing processes and drive improvement.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience in Agile/Scrum environments.

Qualifications

• DAMA CDMP (Certified Data Management Professional) or equivalent.
• Recognised Data Quality Specialist certification or training.
• Experience in the insurance or financial services sector.
• Exposure to data migration or transformation programmes.

Benefits Flexible Working

Smart gives employees flexibility around location (as long as it's within the UK) and, for many of our roles, flexibility within the working day to manage other commitments, such as school drop offs etc. We also offer all our vacancies part time/job shares. We also offer a minimum of 35 days holiday (inc. bank holidays) and you can buy and sell days.

Supporting your Health

Dental Insurance Health Cash Plan, Health Screening, Will Writing, Voluntary Critical Illness, Mental Health First Aiders, Well Being Activities - Mindfulness.

Supporting your Wealth

Annual Bonus Schemes, Annual Salary Reviews, Competitive Pension, Employee Savings, Employee Loans.

Supporting you at Work

Well being activities, mindfulness sessions, Sports and Social Club events and more.

Supporting you and your Family

Maternity/pregnant parent/primary adopter entitlement of 16 weeks at full pay and paternity/non pregnant parent/co adopter at 8 weeks' full pay.

Benefits for Them

Partner Life Assurance and Critical Illness cover.

Get some Tech

Deals on various gadgets including Wearables, Tablets and Laptops.

Getting around

Car Salary Exchange, Cycle Scheme, Vehicle Breakdown Cover.

Supporting you back to work

Return to work programme after maternity leave.

About Ageas

We are one of the largest car and home insurers in the UK. Our People help Ageas to be a thriving, creative and innovative place to work. We show this in the service we provide to over four million customers.

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Our aim is to have great people everywhere in our business and we're always looking for outstanding people to join us. Most roles across Ageas allow a proportion of your time to be spent working from home and we're open to discussing flexible working, including full time, part time or job share arrangements. To find out more about Ageas, see About Us.

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