Full Time Data Governance and Quality Analyst Jobs, in Quacquarelli Symonds Kuala Lumpur - Ricebowl

Role: Data Governance and Quality Analyst

Location: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Job type: Full time, permanent – hybrid

This position offers a hybrid work model, allowing flexibility between working from home and our office. Typically, employees are expected to work 2 days in the office per week.

As a Data Governance and Quality Analyst, this is what you’ll be doing.

• Design, implement, and maintain data quality frameworks and validation rules for all data entering centralised data platforms.
• Develop quality checks, verification workflows, and monitoring dashboards for ongoing data accuracy and completeness.
• Partner with data engineers to embed automated controls within ingestion and transformation pipelines.
• Conduct regular data profiling and root‑cause analysis to identify and resolve quality issues.
• Document and maintain a catalogue of quality rules, validation logic, and known data risks.
• Establish and enforce standards for naming conventions, dataset structures, metadata requirements, and lineage documentation.
• Review new datasets for structural, governance, and quality compliance before onboarding into centralised data platforms.
• Define best‑practice guidance for engineers on dataset creation, transformation, and management.
• Define data access roles to ensure a principle‑based, controlled access model.
• Advise central IT on how these roles should be structured and implemented (while IT retains operational control of user provisioning).
• Develop role‑based access principles aligned to security, data sensitivity, and governance needs.
• Liaise with the Compliance Officer to ensure alignment with regulatory obligations without creating operational bottlenecks.
• Audit and catalogue existing datasets across centralised data platforms.
• Evaluate datasets for quality, usage, consistency, risk, and strategic value.
• Recommend and lead remediation actions: retain, repair, consolidate, archive, or deprecate.
• Support engineering teams to safely rebuild or retire legacy structures.
• Develop and maintain a roadmap for maturing data governance and quality capabilities across the organisation.
• Track governance adoption and identify opportunities to streamline processes.
• Provide training and communication to promote data quality awareness and shared accountability.
• Ensure governance supports analytics, reporting, and data science teams through clarity, consistency, and improved data trust.
• Act as the primary point of contact for governance and quality matters across engineering, IT, analytics, and compliance.
• Facilitate discussions related to data quality issues, source system changes, and process improvements.
• Communicate governance updates and data quality findings to internal stakeholders.

• Experience in data governance, data quality, data management, data engineering, or similar roles.
• Strong understanding of data quality frameworks, validation processes, and root‑cause analysis.
• Experience working with data lake or cloud‑based data platforms.
• Proficiency with SQL and data profiling techniques; familiarity with Python or ETL/ELT tooling is an excellent advantage.
• Experience working collaboratively with data engineering, IT, and compliance functions.
• Strong documentation skills, with the ability to articulate governance and quality standards.
• Strong analytical mindset and attention to detail.
• Excellent communication skills for both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Ability to balance governance rigour with practical, outcome‑oriented decision‑making.

• Competitive base salary
• Access to an annual bonus scheme (for qualifying roles only)
• 20 days annual leave, plus public holidays
• Generous maternity and paternity leave
• Access to an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) and MiCare health
• A vibrant social environment and multicultural and multinational culture
• Free subscription to the Calm App – the #1 app for sleep, meditation, and relaxation
• A focus on welfare which is led by our global wellness team, with mental health first aiders globally
• Access to a variety of diversity and inclusion initiatives and groups
• Strong recognition and reward programs – including a peer‑to‑peer recognition platform, quarterly and annual QS Applaud Awards, Connect with your Career annual PD event
• Support for volunteering and study leave
• Free subscription to LinkedIn learning – with over 5000 courses and programmes at your fingertips
• Options to join our outstanding global Mentorship programme
• Brand new breakout and relaxing spaces in office

QS Quacquarelli Symonds is proud to be a fair and equal organisation where everyone has the same opportunity to achieve their full potential, irrespective of their background or personal attributes. We celebrate our diversity and believe through sharing our experiences we can learn from one another, be stronger together, and enable our business to thrive.