"Data Quality Analyst"

Job Description:

• Continuing
• Full Time
• Position based at Bundoora Campus
• Salary HEO8 starting from $115,566 plus 17% superannuation

About the position

This role contributes to data quality standards, testing and validation processes, metadata completeness, and data documentation that supports trusted, governed and reusable enterprise data assets. The position works closely with data stewards, custodians, business analysts, platform teams and analytics professionals to resolve data quality issues, define and document business rules, build shared understanding of data meaning, and support quality monitoring.

Duties will include but are not limited to:

• Conduct data profiling to identify anomalies, missing values, duplicate records, rule violations and definitional inconsistencies and apply data quality dimensions. Maintain monitoring routines, dashboards and validation processes to assess quality performance, risk trends and remediation outcomes. Support business and data teams to define remediation approaches, escalation paths and business rule clarifications.
• Document decisions, business impacts and prioritisation logic.
• Coordinate remediation actions across portfolios, including ETL logic updates, source system corrections if required, metadata enhancement and process changes.
• Contribute to enterprise data quality standards, validation processes and definitional clarity across data domains.
• Document business rules, lineage context, glossary entries and controlled vocabularies to support metadata completeness and consistent analytics interpretation.
• Support standardisation of reference data.
• Translate business data requirements into executable data quality rules (e.g. Informatica, SQL, platform-native rules).

Skills and Experience

To be considered for this position, you will have:

• Demonstrated experience in data profiling, validation logic, anomaly detection, quality reporting or data investigation in a complex environment.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and data governance platforms such as Informatica.
• Experience supporting data glossary, reference data structures and metadata management
• Strong analytical capability in root-cause discovery, remediation planning and quality impact assessment.
• Experience providing training and education to users on using a platform, policies and best practices.

Please refer to the Position Description for other duties, skills and experience required for this position.

PD - Data Quality Analyst.pdf

Benefits

• 17% employer contributed superannuation
• On site child care facilities
• Flexible work arrangements
• Discounts for staff and their family members to study a range of La Trobe courses

How to apply

Closing date: By 11:55pm on Monday 9th March 2026

Position Enquiries: Rohan Thomas, Associate Director Information Management

Email: Rohan.Thomas@latrobe.edu.au

Recruitment Enquiries: recruitment@latrobe.edu.au

Only candidates with Full Working Rights in Australia may apply for this position.

Please submit an online application ONLY and include the following documents:

• Cover letter,
• An up-to-date resume and;
• A separate document addressing each bullet point under the Essential Criteria ‘Skills and knowledge required for the position’, which is located in the position description.

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