Data Quality Analyst

Join our Data Quality and Governance team and play a key role in keeping critical data trustworthy, monitored, and ready for decision-making. You’ll manage DQPro rules and Ataccama data quality monitoring and run smart validation and reconciliations to spot issues early and improve stability in production. If you enjoy hands-on problem solving, repeatable operational excellence, and working at the intersection of governance and technology, this role offers real impact and clear development in modern data quality tooling.

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The opportunity:

Markel is searching for a self-motivated and capable individual to make a tangible contribution to Data Quality processes. The right candidate can work independently at the same time, they must be a good team player, able to align with shared goals, communicate effectively across functions, and contribute to a collaborative and supportive team environment. at Markel International. The ideal candidate will be passionate about developing and maintaining positive data management practices, an individual with a flexible, proactive and customer focused mindset.

The successful candidate will support business-as-usual (BAU) operations related to reference data and data quality management, while also contributing to the rollout of strategic data programmes. They should be open to participating in and supporting change management initiatives, helping to embed new ways of working across the organisation.

Part of Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries, is a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.

What you’ll be doing:

• Own day-to-day DQ monitoring across DQPro and Ataccama, keeping controls current, effective, and well-documented.
• Run validation, reconciliations, and profiling to identify anomalies, false positives, and root causes.
• Produce data analysis and feedback to evidence progress, highlight trends, and ensure clear visibility of data quality status and outcomes.
• Support release and environment checks (pre‑prod to prod) and help transition new controls into stable BAU monitoring.
• Maintain DQ registers, rule inventories and evidence packs, producing clear summaries for governance forums.
• Build familiarity with Reference Data Management (RDM) processes and support the business with ad‑hoc queries, guidance and operational needs as required.
• Track recurring issues and improvements, partnering with stakeholders to drive remediation and strengthen monitoring over time.

Key Skills:

• Strong SQL fundamentals – able to read, test and make minor adjustments to queries
• Proven capability in data validation and reconciliation, with a good attention to detail
• Confidence working with data quality controls, including thresholds, exceptions and outcomes
• Clear written communication, with the ability to produce concise, structured documentation
• Execution‑focused and comfortable with repeatable operational tasks
• Receptive to feedback nd structured ways of working
• Exposure to DQPro, Ataccama, or similar DQ tools
• Knowledge of insurance data and understanding of data governance concepts (ownership, SLA, severity, escalation)
• Experience with Power BI and/or Tableau for dashboards and data visualisation
• Basic familiarity with Databricks / cloud data platforms

What’s in it for you?

• A great starting salary plus annual bonus & strong benefits package…
• Up to 16% company pension scheme,
• Private medical and dental cover, Menopause plan, emergency care benefit (children/Pets/dependants)
• Income protection, Life assurance, electric car scheme, travel insurance
• 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays, with the opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
• As well as other great benefits on offer there are countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career!

Are you ready to play your part?

If you’re looking for a place where you can make a meaningful difference, you’ve found it. The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward, reach their full potential and seize opportunities. You’ll find your fit amongst our diverse global community of optimists and problem-solvers. We’re always pushing each other to think further because we believe that when we strive for better and realise our potential, we can help others reach theirs.

Join us and play your part in something special!

Choose ‘Apply Now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

At Markel we are all about the people, celebrating the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances. Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you. We are also happy to consider candidates who are looking for flexible working patterns.

We will ensure that individuals are provided with any reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful. Please contact us via email at [email protected] or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations or adjustments that may be needed, including alternative formats of documents or information on how to apply offline.

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