Senior Quality Engineer
Optum · Raleigh, NC · Yesterday
Quality Assurance$92k–$164k/yrFull-time
Primary Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain scalable data quality frameworks to validate accuracy, completeness, consistency, and timeliness of enterprise data across multiple data domains
- Implement data validation, reconciliation, and anomaly detection logic across batch and streaming data pipelines
- Embed automated data quality checks into ETL / ELT pipelines to enforce quality gates and prevent defective data from propagating downstream
- Build reusable data quality automation components, libraries, and frameworks that can be consistently adopted across data engineering teams
- Validate Power BI datasets, semantic models, and dashboards by ensuring: Source-to-report data reconciliation, Metric and KPI accuracy, Aggregation, filter, and refresh correctness
- Partner with reporting and analytics teams to validate Power BI measures, calculations, and business logic against certified data sources
- Monitor and report on data quality metrics and trends, including dashboard-level data accuracy and consistency
- Perform root cause analysis for data quality and reporting issues, collaborating with upstream data producers and downstream consumers to drive permanent fixes
- Leverage AI-assisted data quality practices, including: GenAI-based rule generation and test case creation, Intelligent anomaly detection and pattern recognition, Automated triage and summarization of data quality issues
- Enable AIOps-style data observability, using AI-driven insights to proactively identify data drift, schema changes, and metric anomalies
- Support governance and audit readiness by ensuring data quality controls, validations, and dashboard certifications are documented and traceable
- Continuously improve data quality practices through automation, standardization, and AI-driven enhancements, reducing manual validation effort
- Design, develop, and deploy AI-powered solutions to address complex business challenges with emphasis on responsible use of AI
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or IT related field
- 5+ years of experience in data quality engineering, quality engineering, or data engineering roles with a strong focus on automation and frameworks with a solid understanding of data quality dimensions (accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness, validity)
- 5+ years of experience with SQL for data profiling, reconciliation, and validation
- 5+ years of experience implementing automated data quality frameworks embedded within ETL / ELT workflows
- 3+ years of experience in Python and PySpark, including building reusable notebooks and automation frameworks
- 3+ years of proven experience working in a Databricks environment, supporting large-scale data pipelines and analytics platforms
- 2+ years of hands-on experience validating Power BI datasets, dashboards, KPIs, and metrics against source systems
Preferred Qualifications
- Strong communication skills with the ability to translate business reporting requirements into technical quality controls