Markel International
Data Quality Analyst
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Data Quality Analyst
Senior Data Quality & Governance Analyst
**Join our Data Quality and Governance team—play a key role in keeping critical data trusted, monitored, and ready for decision-making.
You’ll manage DQPro rules and Ataccama data quality monitoring, run smart validations and reconciliations to spot issues early, and ensure operational stability in production. If you thrive on hands-on problem-solving, operational excellence, and the intersection of governance and technology, this role offers impactful work and clear career development in modern data quality tooling.
About Markel
We’re proud to be part of Markel Group – a Fortune 500 company (CE: NRSE – MKL) with over 60 offices in 20+ countries. As a holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and global investments, we empower individuals and organisations to seize opportunities. We’re all about people, collaboration, and pushing boundaries.
Our vision: We thrive when we win together and drive progress through shared success.
The Opportunity
Markel is seeking a self-motivated, capable individual to elevate our data quality processes. The ideal candidate will:
- Work independently but collaboratively, aligning with shared goals and collaborating across functions.
- Foster a customer-focused, proactive mindset and support the transition to new ways of working.
- Contribute to business-as-usual (BAU) reference data and data quality operations.
- Help when expanding its strategic data programmes.
Your Key Responsibilities
Data Quality and Governance
- Own day-to-day DQ monitoring across both DQPro and Ataccama, ensuring controls remain current, effective, and well-documented.
- Run validations, reconciliations, and profiling to identify anomalies within data, false positives, and underlying issues.
- Create data analysis and feedback to evidence progress, highlight trends, and ensure governance teams have clear visibility of data quality outcomes.
- Support release and environment checks (pre-prod to prod) to streamline control transitions into stable BAU.
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Data Lineage and Reporting
- Maintain DQ registers, rule inventories, and evidence packs, delivering clear summaries for governance forums.
- Build familiarity with reference data management (RDM) processes while supporting ad-hoc queries and operational needs.
- Track recurring issues, partner with stakeholders to drive remediation, and strengthen monitoring over time.
Key Skills & Requirements
To succeed in this role, we’re looking for a team player with the following strengths:
- Technical expertise in SQL fundamentals (reading, testing, and making minor query adjustments).
- Strong background in data validation, reconciliation, and detailed analytics.
- Experience working with data quality controls (thresholds, exceptions, and outcomes).
- Ability to document clearly in written form, with structured communication and concise reporting.
- Self-directed with operational skills—execution-focused and comfortable following structured methods.
- Keen open to feedback and adaptive to changes.
Technical Knowledge & Experience
- Proficiency or exposure to DQPro, Ataccama, or similar data quality tools.
- Baseline knowledge of insurance operations and common data governance concepts: ownership, SLAs, severity, escalation.
- Familiarity with Power BI or Tableau for data analysis, visualisation, and dashboards.
- Basic knowledge of Databricks or cloud data platforms (e.g., AWS/Azure/GCP).
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About You
We’re a diverse team of ambitious problem-solvers, professional optimists. This role wants to welcome someone who: ✔ Influences and brings expertise from a wide array of backgrounds. ✔ Thrive in both collaborative and self-directed environments. ✔ Support workplace flexibility and accommodations.
Rewarding Opportunities
Competitive Package
- Strong benefits package, including:
- A generous compensation base + annual bonus.
- 25 days paid holiday + Bank Holidays (with extra leave options).
- 16% company pension scheme.
- Private healthcare, dental cover, menopause plan, and support for illnesses or emergencies.
- Life assurance, earnings protection, and an electric vehicle scheme.
- Travel and relocation insurance backup.
- Development opportunities: Daily exposure to cutting-edge data quality and automation tooling, career growth in roles and training programs.
Culture & Diversity
At Markel, we celebrate a workforce where everyone contributes. We champion diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I)—we want you to:
- Reflect diverse experiences and backgrounds.
- Share ideas and support mutual growth.
Lively debate, fresh challenges, and building a more inclusive work culture—this is what we stand for.
Join Your Future
Find your reason to play your part—help others do the same. At Markel, we help people seize opportunities, reach goals, and move forward with confidence.
Jump in! Explore the next step by firing off your application today—Apply Now.
For flexible working options, accommodations, or further details on this role, please reach out via:
- Email: rec@markel.com
- Phone: +44 (0) 161 507 5827 Zip us a message and we’ll get to you in 1-2 days!
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