Informatica Data Quality Analyst

General Description

Join a leading banking transformation program in Riyadh supporting a major financial institution's enterprise data governance initiative.

We are looking for an experienced Informatica Data Quality Analyst to support enterprise-wide data quality management, profiling, monitoring, and remediation initiatives using Informatica Data Quality (IDQ) On-Premises.

The consultant will work closely with Data Governance, Business, Data Management, and Technology teams to improve data accuracy, consistency, completeness, and regulatory compliance across critical banking domains.

This is a 6-month contract engagement with strong potential for extension.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain data quality rules, scorecards, and validation processes using Informatica Data Quality (IDQ) On-Premises.
• Perform data profiling, data discovery, and quality assessments across enterprise banking data assets.
• Analyze data quality issues, identify root causes, and recommend remediation strategies.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to define business rules, data quality standards, and validation requirements.
• Monitor enterprise data quality metrics and prepare dashboards and reports for governance teams.
• Support data cleansing, standardization, matching, and deduplication initiatives.
• Work closely with ETL, Data Engineering, and Database teams to resolve data quality issues.
• Document data quality rules, technical specifications, and governance processes.
• Participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and validate data quality improvements.
• Ensure compliance with enterprise data governance policies and banking regulatory requirements.
• Support production deployments, issue investigations, and ongoing optimization of Informatica IDQ solutions.
• Provide recommendations to improve overall data quality processes and governance maturity.

Required Skills

• Strong hands-on experience with Informatica Data Quality (IDQ) On-Premises.
• Experience developing and maintaining data quality rules, scorecards, and validation frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of data profiling, data cleansing, data standardization, matching, and deduplication techniques.
• Experience with Informatica PowerCenter and ETL processes.
• Strong SQL skills with experience querying and validating large datasets.
• Experience working with Oracle, SQL Server, or other enterprise relational databases.
• Understanding of enterprise Data Governance and Data Management principles.
• Experience performing root cause analysis and data quality issue remediation.
• Knowledge of metadata management and enterprise data lifecycle concepts.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with business stakeholders to define data quality requirements and business rules.
• Excellent documentation, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work in Agile or hybrid project delivery environments.

Preferred Experience

• Banking or financial services industry experience.
• Experience supporting enterprise data governance initiatives.
• Experience working with customer, accounts, loans, payments, treasury, risk, or regulatory reporting data domains.
• Familiarity with BCBS239, Basel, AML, KYC, or other banking regulatory frameworks.
• Experience with Informatica Axon or Informatica Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC).
• Experience supporting enterprise data warehouse or data lake environments.
• Exposure to Master Data Management (MDM) solutions.
• Experience participating in UAT, production deployments, and production support.
• Relevant Informatica certifications are an advantage.