Data Quality Engineer
Location: Ballymena, Northern Ireland (2 days per week office based)
We pride ourselves on delivering world class solutions to our clients and rely on our talented and experienced Data Migration team to successfully onboard our customers to ensure their experience of our product is world class. At PlotBox we deal with a huge amount of data, ranging from critical business data to precious genealogical information. Our customers expect their data to be accurate and safe during the on-boarding process whilst operating on a cloud platform. We provide our customers with confidence from the beginning of our relationship.
To support recent growth, we are looking for a Data Quality Engineer to join our agile delivery team. You will be directly involved in the data migration process specifically in testing and quality control, utilising data analysis skills to identify, articulate and define the process around quality assurance.
With a desire for continual improvement, you will positively impact the data analysis, migration and testing tools to further develop and enhance our timely understanding of customer data and ensure the migration is of a high quality.
Responsibilities:
- Organise, lead, and facilitate internal workshops around data quality
- Design and create comprehensive data validation strategies
- Write and review end-to-end, integration and unit tests to ensure data quality
- Create and implement data testing strategies to ensure a high quality data migration
- Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases/data systems
- Conduct data quality assessments and audits to ensure standards are met and identify areas for improvement
- Work with management to prioritize business and information needs
- Be directly involved with end to end data migrations
- Take accountability for ongoing improvement of the analysis, mapping and QA process; and
- Build a culture of continuous delivery and improvement, ensuring that key processes are regularly analysed, maintained and improved
What we are looking for :
You will have strong experience of data migrations, quality assurance and/or data analysis in a software development environment, with:
- At least 12 months professional experience in a Data/Quality testing role or something similar
- Experience of contributing to process improvements
- A degree level qualification in Computing, Computer Science/CIT, or equivalent work experience
- Strong working knowledge of SQL
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desirable Experience -Its not a deal breaker, but ideally you will have:
- Experience with Python
- Knowledge of data profiling tools
- Experience working with complex data migration from legacy systems to SaaS
Company Summary
PlotBox is the innovative cloud-based deathcare management solution that enables cemeteries, crematories and funeral homes to serve their families in the best way possible. We are very clear on our mission; to take away some of the pain for families dealing with death and those who serve them, provide our customers with more time for what matters.
Headquartered in Northern Ireland, with offices in the United States and Australia, our growing, 100-strong multidisciplinary team of experts provides our partners with the same professional levels of service, support and satisfaction across the globe. We live and breathe our core values – Tenacity, Teamwork and Trust.
We have a passion for tech and innovation, actively exploiting new and cutting-edge tools and technologies to enhance our product and skillset. We actively promote from within and our dynamic scale up culture ensures that proactivity and initiative are rewarded with excellent career opportunities, progression and mobility.
How would our team describe life at PlotBox? When asked to describe our company, they use words such as fun, respect, care, team spirit, family feel, trust, happy, listen, sense of accomplishment, flexibility, development.
We are proud that, for the third year running, we have received our Great Place to Work® Certification™. This follows our top ten ranking on the 2022 UK’s Best Workplaces™ in Tech list, as well as being named one of the 2022 UK’s Best Workplaces™ For Women, and one of the 2022 UK's Best Workplaces™ for Wellbeing.
Our staff have told us loud and clear that they love working for PlotBox; from the relaxed working environment to feeling truly valued in their roles. In addition, our purpose-driven mission and the sense of pride in doing what we do - to ultimately lessen people’s pain at the most difficult time of their lives - means a lot to our team.
Benefits Offered by PlotBox
Our headquarters are ideally placed in the beautiful and scenic countryside location around Ballymena, along with other office locations in the USA and Australia. We are constantly increasing our list of benefits which currently include:
- Investment in employee growth, and opportunity for development
- Regular wellbeing initiatives and health cash plans
- Safe and supportive culture; we foster continuous improvement in all aspects of work
- Career mobility and progression
- Regular travel opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- Hybrid Working - between office and home locations
- Pension
- Life Insurance
- Active social and charity committee - lots of social events throughout the year
- Office perks: fridge and larder fully stocked with unlimited drinks and snacks
- Free Parking