Engineers data quality checks, tests and observability across the data platform.
Entry
Intermediate
Coding
High
Key skills
Career overview
The Data Quality Engineer designs and implements data quality checks, tests, contracts and observability across pipelines and warehouses. They catch bad data before it reaches dashboards and models. The role leads to Data Architect, Data Governance Analyst or Senior Data Engineer positions.
Main responsibilities
- Guarantee data quality, freshness and lineage
- Measure and improve data quality
- Build reliable data ingestion pipelines
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines
- Monitor platform health, alerts and dashboards
- Keep technical documentation up to date
- Prepare and execute change requests in production
- Analyse application logs to identify root causes
- Mentor junior team members and review their work
- Automate recurring tasks with scripts
Technical skills
Technologies
Education level
Education requirements vary depending on the company, country and experience. Professional experience, certifications and technical skills can sometimes compensate for formal education.
High School / Bac
Less common
Bac+2 (2-year degree)
Less common
Bac+3 (Bachelor)
Less common
Bac+5 (Master / Engineering)
Common entry point
Experience & coding level
Experience level
Coding level
Useful certifications
Certifications are never mandatory. They are one way among others to prove a skill.
- dbt Analytics Engineering Certification
- Google Professional Data Engineer
- DAMA CDMP Associate
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Possible branches
Where can you go next?
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Overlap: 49% · Difficulty: Easy
Skills to learn: SQL, Orchestration (Airflow), Spark / distributed processing
View roadmapOverlap: 51% · Difficulty: Medium
Skills to learn: Policy & compliance (GDPR), Stakeholder management, SQL basics
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Soft skills
- Rigour and attention to detail
- Analytical thinking
- Problem solving
- Attention to detail
- Clear communication
- Sense of ownership
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