Key responsibilities

The Data Quality Specialist plays a pivotal role in unlocking the power of our data. He / She collaborates with key stakeholders across the organization to gather their needs, then dive deep into various data sources to extract valuable insights that inform business decisions across all LoBs and Business Functions.

This person will support the Data Quality Manager in the remediation process by analyzing, collecting, cleaning, and interpreting data sets to answer questions or solve problems related to Data Quality. The role of the Data Quality Specialist in collaborating with data stewards is essential to define data ownership and accountability for Critical Data Elements.

Through this role, you will have the main following responsabilities:

• Handle and model large datasets, solve complex problems, and answer critical business questions through data analysis.
• Develop strategies to identify, acquire, and utilize the right data sets to create solutions and support informed decision-making.
• Design and execute data quality checks and audits to identify inconsistencies and errors in data sets.
• Craft clear and insightful visualizations to effectively communicate your findings and translate data into actionable recommendations.
• Extract, integrate, and manipulate data to build data pipelines, automate reports and dashboards, and empower internal stakeholders with self-service tools.
• Own, design, develop, document, and manage scalable solutions for key metrics, reports, analyses, and dashboards that drive business success.
• Develop queries and data visualizations to fulfill ad hoc requests, recurring reports, troubleshooting needs, and ongoing projects.
• Apply data mining, modeling, warehousing, and other analytical techniques to develop and manage customer segmentation and predictive models that fuel business growth.
• Work closely with Lines of Business (LOBs) and Business Units (BUs) to understand their analytical needs, identify critical metrics/KPIs, and deliver actionable insights to Data / Business owners.
• Collect, merge, and clean data from diverse sources to prepare data for the Allianz Data Platform.
  Monitoring Critical Data Elements (CDEs):
• Develop and implement automated processes to monitor the quality of CDEs in real-time (or near real-time). This could involve setting up thresholds and alerts for metrics like data completeness, accuracy, consistency, and timeliness.
• Regularly analyze trends in CDE quality metrics to identify potential issues and proactively address them before they impact downstream processes.
• Investigate and troubleshoot root causes of CDE quality issues, working with data owners and stakeholders to resolve them.
  Data Profiling:
• Conduct data profiling exercises on new and existing data sets to understand their structure, content, and quality characteristics. This includes analyzing data types, value distributions, presence of missing values, outliers, and potential inconsistencies.
• Use data profiling insights to define data quality rules and identify potential areas of risk or non-compliance with regulations.
• Leverage data profiling techniques to identify hidden patterns, trends, and relationships within the data that can be used to improve business processes and inform decision making.

What you bring

• Multi-Year experience in collaboration with IT or working within IT department.
• Scrum, OPEX, Six Sigma and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) designation.
• Multi-Year experience in financial planning and IT cost management.
• Demonstratable experience in transformation programs; change management trainings.
• Multi-Year experience in collaboration with IT or working within IT department.
• Understanding of local and regional labour laws and regulations.
• Multi-Year experience in IT stakeholer or vendor management role.
• Agile Scrum, OPEX, Six Sigma and/or Project Management Professional (PMP) designation.
• Training and Experience in a leadership role.

What we offer

Our employees play an integral part in our success as a business. We appreciate that each of our employees are unique and have unique needs, ambitions and we enjoy being a part of their journey.

We are there to empower and encourage you with your personal and professional development ensuring that you take control by offering a large variety of courses and targeted development programs.

All that in a global environment where international mobility and career progression are encouraged. Caring for your health and wellbeing is key priority for us. This is why we build Work Well programs to providing you with peace of mind and give the flexibility in planning and arranging for a better work-life balance

53864 | Data & Analytics | Professional | Non-Executive | Allianz Partners | Full-Time | Permanent

Allianz Group is one of the most trusted insurance and asset management companies in the world. Caring for our employees, their ambitions, dreams and challenges, is what makes us a unique employer. Together we can build an environment where everyone feels empowered and has the confidence to explore, to grow and to shape a better future for our customers and the world around us.

We at Allianz believe in a diverse and inclusive workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage you to bring your whole self to work, no matter where you are from, what you look like, who you love or what you believe in.
We therefore welcome applications regardless of ethnicity or cultural background, age, gender, nationality, religion, disability or sexual orientation. Great to have you on board. Let's care for tomorrow.

Note: Diversity of minds is an integral part of Allianz' company culture. One means to achieve diverse teams is a regular rotation of Allianz Executive employees across functions, Allianz entities and geographies. Therefore, the company encourages its employees to have motivation in gaining varied skills from different positions and to collect experiences from across Allianz Group.