Data Quality Analyst II

At American Equity Investment Life Holding Company ® we offer leading annuity products that help empower our clients to fulfill their needs and wants in retirement. Our success comes from hiring high-energy individuals who embody the beliefs that drive our unique culture. We currently fund over half a million retirements nationwide, and have been headquartered in West Des Moines, Iowa, for over twenty-five years with satellite offices in Charlotte, NC and New York, NY.

General Purpose Of The Job

The Data Quality Analyst partners with business and IT partners to drive discovery, design and execution for profiling, assessing and cleansing data. This role is responsible for defining policies and procedures for the day-to-day operational and administrative management of data quality, while monitoring data quality metrics and requirements for all data domains.

• Position sits in West Des Moines and will work an onsite hybrid schedule**
  
  

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

• Proactively improves the quality of company reporting by providing a high level of data quality awareness across the enterprise.
• Conducts complex data profiling, data analysis, business rules and cleansing rules related work.
• Provides business processes, system support and data quality governance through data coordination and integration to ensure efficient processes and consistent data flows to business and stakeholders.
• Ensures data integrity and compliance by performing data cleansing, data audits, and data validation. Performs root-cause analysis on data-related system problems and recommends or executes corrective action.
• Scopes, sizes and manages data quality implementation efforts.
• Provides subject matter expertise for Ataccama Data Quality Rule Development and Ataccama Data tools.
• Performs other work as assigned.
  
  

Supervisory Responsibilities

Direct Reports: None

General Description of Indirect Reports (2 and 3-downs): None

Education And/Or Experience

Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, MIS, Statistics, Information Management or related field of study; plus two (2) years of related experience; or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.

CERTIFICATES, LICENSES, PROFESSIONAL DESIGNATIONS: N/A

Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Experience in writing data quality rules and workflows and building scorecards utilizing a Data Quality tool (Ataccama preferred)/SQL.
• Experience with data profiling using a Data Quality tool (Ataccama preferred).
• Experience in gathering business data quality requirements and metrics.
• Knowledge of data quality domains.
• Knowledge of data governance and data quality concepts.
• Ability to manage relationships across Business and IT.
• Strong customer service orientation.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.
• Mathematical skills and strong attention to detail.
• Ability to work cooperatively and successfully with employees, customers, and other outside third parties.
• Strong organizational and planning skills.
• Proficient in the use of MicroSoft Office Suite.
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals and technical/operational procedures.
• Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to successfully handle change and meet deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.
  
  

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This description covers the major purpose and essential functions of the job. It is not intended to give all details or a step-by-step account of the way each task is to be performed. Employees may receive other job related instructions and be required to perform other job related work requested by their manager. All requirements are subject to possible modification to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities.

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