Data Quality Analyst

Permanent 

Up to £51,000 + Pension + PMI + ShareSave + 6.6 weeks holiday + Hybrid Working (2 days per week in the office)

Southampton, Store Support Office

We believe anyone can improve their home to make life better. From our Southampton Store Support office (SSO) we equip our stores, our people, and our whole business with everything it takes to help our millions of customers create a home they’ll love. Join us as a Data Quality Analyst and you’ll be a big part of this. 

Role Purpose: The Data Quality Analyst will play a key role in ensuring a single, trusted version of customer data exists across the organisation. They will ensure the highest standards of data quality and work closely with a diverse set of stakeholders to deeply understand our data, enabling analysts and other data professionals to access the right data in the right way. The role sits within the central Data function and works in partnership with the Data Quality Manager to deliver the data quality strategy and operating framework, ensuring it aligns with the broader business objectives of B&Q.

Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:

• Identify and mitigate data quality issues across all stages of the data lifecycle, ensuring problems are resolved at source wherever possible
• Triage data quality issues, assessing impact and priority using agile practices to balance analytical needs and value drivers
• Maintain and update the data quality log, ensuring progress and resolutions are clearly documented and all stakeholders are up to date with progress
• Work alongside the Data Quality Manager and collaborate closely with Tech and Kingfisher to deliver the data quality framework and roadmap, ensuring good quality data is accessible and usable across the organisation
• Contribute to the development and delivery of a strategic approach to data quality by defining and establishing effective monitoring processes, using appropriate tools and methods to ensure standards remain consistently high
• Providing data quality expertise throughout development of new data assets, and offer guidance and support to colleagues on data quality best practice
• Proactively assess and recommend improvements to data capture and wider business processes
• Contribute to development and maintenance of the data glossary, data quality rules, and data lineage documentation.
• Be an active member of the wider data community across the group, engaging with the group data team and other banners across the group

Required Skills & Experience:

• Skilled in SQL, with some additional experience in languages such as Python or R preferred
• Experienced in using cloud‑based analytical platforms, including Databricks, Snowflake, Google BigQuery and similar tools
• Enjoys working with data and demonstrates strong analytical and problem‑solving abilities
• Experienced in conducting complex, multi–root cause analysis and applying an inquisitive, hypothesis‑driven approach to uncover and resolve underlying issues in collaboration with others
• Communicates clearly and confidently, building effective relationships across diverse teams and engaging both technical and non‑technical stakeholders to drive resolution
• Highly curious and motivated to understand how things work, consistently seeking to uncover the nuances behind business processes and data behaviours
• Shows strong attention to detail and takes the time needed to ensure accuracy in all work
• Comfortable making progress without having the full picture while maintaining awareness of potential risks
• Understands and maximises the value of data, acting with a commercial mindset to prioritise impactful and useful outputs

As part of a great team, you’ll be valued for who you are. We’re committed to making B&Q more diverse and representative of the communities we serve, where everyone can feel they belong and have equal opportunities. You will have access to a range of networks that represent our colleagues and allies and help us to continue to put diversity and inclusion at the heart of our business.

We also recognise that wellness means different things to different people, and we want to help colleagues be at their best and feel well by offering a range of benefits to help you. As well as a competitive salary, our benefits package includes an award-winning pension scheme, bonus, ShareSave options, 6.6 weeks holiday, payroll giving, an Employee Assistance Programme, shopping discounts, colleague wellbeing benefits and lots more! 

So we can support you during the application or interview process, please contact recruitment@b-and-q.co.uk for any recruitment adjustments.