Data Quality Management Lead
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- Toronto, ON
- $85,000-156,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
Work Model: Hybrid
Reference code: 132605
Primary Location: Toronto, ON
All Available Locations: Toronto, ON; Burlington, ONOur PurposeAt Deloitte, our Purpose is to make an impact that matters. We exist to inspire and help our people, organizations, communities, and countries to thrive by building a better future. Our work underpins a prosperous society where people can find meaning and opportunity. It builds consumer and business confidence, empowers organizations to find imaginative ways of deploying capital, enables fair, trusted, and functioning social and economic institutions, and allows our friends, families, and communities to enjoy the quality of life that comes with a sustainable future. And as the largest 100% Canadian-owned and operated professional services firm in our country, we are proud to work alongside our clients to make a positive impact for all Canadians.By living our Purpose, we will make an impact that matters.
- Have many careers in one Firm.
- Enjoy flexible, proactive, and practical benefits that foster a culture of well-being and connectedness.
- Learn from deep subject matter experts through mentoring and on the job coaching
- Develop, implement, operationalize and support the ongoing execution of the enterprise Data Quality Management framework.
- Establish data quality standards, procedures, and control mechanisms and translate into actionable controls and practices.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise Data Governance and Risk Management frameworks and integrate into the enterprise Data Architecture.
- Design and implement automated DQ rules and validation checks across critical data elements (CDEs).
- Integrate automated agents for continuous monitoring and real‑time issue flagging, audit trails, reporting and issue escalation and resolution.
- Implement issue management workflows with clear ownership and SLA tracking.
- Monitor recurring data quality issues and trends, escalating material risks as required through governance channels
- Partner with Data Owners and Data Stewards to embed DQ accountability.
- Facilitate domain-level DQ forums and working groups.
- Provide guidance to business units on DQ best practices and control design.
- Establish standards for data profiling, data requirements, data validation, reconciliation and other relevant testing for all initiatives that require implementation through the Enterprise Data Platform.
- Ensure all relevant initiatives include sufficient business testing and UAT will production today in advance of implementation with sufficient testing timelines to certify data quality in advance of go-live.
- Support identification and resolution of data-related issues pre and post go-live
- Collaborate with Data Governance, Metadata Management, and Data Architecture teams.
- Ensure DQ rules are aligned with data lineage and data classification frameworks.
- Support integration of DQ capabilities within data platforms (e.g., ETL, MDM, Data Lakes).
- Ensure that all data pipelines undertake a certification process to meet control and data quality standards and requirements
- Prepare enterprise-level DQ dashboards including historical, current and projected DQ related KPIs.
- Present insights, trends, and risk exposures to senior leadership.
- Track remediation effectiveness and continuous improvement metrics.
- Identify automation opportunities in DQ monitoring and remediation.
- Benchmark against industry best practices.
- Evaluate emerging technologies and innovations that enable Data Quality Management including Agentic AI, LLMs, autonomous agents, and AI tooling to uplift DQ maturity.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Data Management, Computer Science, or related field.
- 8+ years of experience in Data Governance, Data Quality, or Data Management.
- 3+ years leading enterprise-wide DQ initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience delivering Data Quality programs, Data governance frameworks, Data lifecycle management, and/or relevant controls frameworks
- Experience with leading DQ tools such as: Informatica DQ, Collibra DQ, Talend, Ataccama etc.
- Strong SQL skills and familiarity with data profiling, data analysis, DQ rule design, and DQ metrics.
- Demonstrated experience leveraging modern AI tools for data management.
- Hands-on use of agentic coding tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex etc as well as Cursor, VSC and/or equivalent. to accelerate DQ engineering, rule creation, data profiling, data analysis, metadata alignment, issue root-cause analysis and resolution, and/or documentation.
- Demonstrated experience in use AI agents for automated DQ rule generation, anomaly detection, and issue remediation.
- Experience integrating AI-assisted controls within ETL, MDM, and cloud platforms.
- Experience leading AI adoption initiatives across governance, analytics, or engineering teams.
- Knowledge of BCBS 239, GDPR, SOX, equivalent regulatory standards, and/or controls frameworks.
- Relevant vendor certifications, ISO 8000 experience
- Experience with Azure and Databricks, or equivalent hyperscaler technology
- Experience building AI agents for metadata enrichment or automated lineage extraction