Overview
Data Quality Manager Jobs in Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates at Tandem Interim
Title: Data Quality Manager
Company: Tandem Interim
Location: Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates
Data Quality Lead | Abu Dhabi Government Transformation Program
We are seeking a Data Quality Lead to drive data quality governance, KPI validation, and analytical assurance across large-scale government data platforms.
This is a senior leadership role responsible for ensuring that dashboards, reports, KPIs, and analytical outputs are accurate, consistent, and trusted across multiple systems and stakeholders.
The successful candidate will act as the bridge between business, analytics, and engineering teams, ensuring data-driven decision-making is supported by reliable and high-quality information.
Key Responsibilities
Data Quality & KPI Assurance
- Lead validation of KPIs, metrics, business rules, and analytical outputs across dashboards and reports.
- Ensure consistency of calculations, definitions, and results across multiple platforms and reporting layers.
- Validate alignment between business requirements, data models, and analytics outputs.
- Perform functional and cross-platform validation of reporting and analytical products.
Governance & Quality Oversight
- Define and enforce enterprise-wide data quality standards, controls, and validation frameworks.
- Review and approve data quality rules, testing approaches, and validation methodologies.
- Act as the final quality authority prior to executive and leadership reporting releases.
- Drive continuous improvement of data quality processes and controls.
Stakeholder & Vendor Management
- Partner with business stakeholders to clarify KPI definitions, business rules, and reporting expectations.
- Oversee quality assurance of externally delivered datasets, dashboards, and analytics products.
- Manage critical data quality issues, escalations, and remediation activities.
- Provide guidance on data quality impacts during platform enhancements and transformations.
Strategy & Data Governance
- Monitor and report on data quality performance across platforms.
- Identify systemic data issues and recommend strategic improvements.
- Contribute to data governance, metadata, reference data, and master data initiatives.
- Mentor and guide Data Quality Analysts and Data Quality Developers.
Required Experience
- 8–10+ years of experience in Data Quality, Data Governance, Analytics Assurance, or related fields.
- Strong experience validating KPIs, metrics, dashboards, and analytical outputs.
- Experience working with senior stakeholders and leadership-facing reporting environments.
- Proven ability to lead data quality initiatives across enterprise-scale data ecosystems.
Technical Skills
- Strong understanding of data models, data warehousing, ETL/ELT processes, and analytics pipelines.
- Ability to review SQL queries, transformation logic, and validation frameworks.
- Experience overseeing dashboard, reporting, and analytics quality assurance.
- Familiarity with metadata management, data governance, ontology, and business glossary concepts.
