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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Data Quality Analyst - **Company:** Social Care Wales - **Location:** Cardiff, UK (Remote available) - **Salary:** £36,948.0 - £39,066.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Data Analysis, Big Data, Databases, Data Cleansing, Data Governance, Data Integrity, Data Retention, Statistical Hypothesis Testing, Database Performance - **Published:** June 14, 2026 - **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=89a2e82ca80c5502 ## About the Role Do you have experience in Leadership? ## Description The CRM database Team is looking to appoint a Data Quality Officer to focus on data integrity, implementation of governance and technical standards and working with others to implement solutions to ensure our data model is well structured, documented and suitable for a wide variety of reporting. This would include: * Extracting and critically reviewing datasets to highlight issues, concerns or inaccuracies * Researching options for improvement of these issues taking into account system and user constraints * Being able to communicate the why and how of any changes to colleagues to instil a strong data quality culture within Social Care Wales. * Working with the CRM Database team to ensure data governance, retention and best practice are implemented from planning through to delivery. You will contribute to the development of new processes across the organisation as we seek to connect our digital estate and create a unified and authenticated user record and develop our dataverse. This role is offered with flexible working options, and we are happy to consider job share arrangements. The main focus of this role is to: * drive continuous data quality improvement across Social Care Wales * support the organisation through the creation of data quality enhancement plans. by developing data quality rules and monitoring their implementation and impact * Support the maintenance of required frameworks to treat data as an asset * develop reporting mechanisms and performance indicators for data quality and insights to track the status and resolution of data quality issues * develop, test and implement business validation and deletion rules * perform data quality audits and statistical tests on large datasets to identify inconsistent and incomplete data and/or rule violations and exception reports * support the development of a data cleansing and deletion plan to manage database performance, comply with data retention requirements and ensure database processing performance * gather data from our systems to identify and interpret performance trends. * maintain a Data Quality Issues Log, to risk assess, prioritise, identify root causes of, and remediation for, issues identified * work with owners of each system to ensure documentation of fields and data captured, rules and validation, retention as well as any other required data standards is documented and maintained. Adhere to best practices in data analysis and collection, keeping abreast of developments and trends in data quality analysis. * be able to communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders equally effectively to ensure incorporation of standards and recommendations. The closing date for this role is 05 July 2026 and the interviews will be on-line on 21 July 2026. 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