Data Product Quality Lead

The Company 

RightShip is the world’s biggest third party maritime due diligence organization, providing expertise in global safety, sustainability and social responsibility best practices. 

We bring together years of industry expertise with the output from analytics and large data sets to provide our safety and environmental scoring systems, recommendations and consultancy services. 

Using leading data and technology, we aim to set new benchmarks in environmental protection. We support global initiatives and action influencing practical and impactful change, enabling “win-win” for business and the environment. 

To find out more visit RightShip.com. 

What we offer 

We offer a place where you know you are contributing to an organization who are constantly working to ensure ships are safe as possible so that crew and cargo are protected. We are passionate about maritime efficiency, safety and sustainability practices. 

We offer generous rewards. Our base salary is competitive, we support employee wellbeing and provide our employees with a Healthy Living Allowance and our annual incentive scheme is awesome. We have some great talent who are happy to share their experience and skills to help you on your way and we are committed to professional development to make sure your career keeps growing while you’re working with us.

What makes RightShip a great place to work at:

RightShip is an equal opportunity employer, and we champion diversity. Our teams are composed of individuals from different geographies, cultures, religions, ethnicities, races, genders, sexual orientations, abilities, and generations. We believe that a diversity of experiences makes us stronger—as individuals, as communities and as an organization.

Don’t meet every single requirement of this role? Still apply! Research tells us that that women and underrepresented groups are less likely to apply unless they meet every single requirement.  At RightShip we believe that the right hire is someone who makes an addition to our culture, rather than someone who fits in and conforms to our status quo. We want to add team members who not only value RightShip standards and workplace culture, but also bring an aspect of diversity that positively contributes to our work environment. If you are excited about this role, or about our company in general, we would love to hear from you!

Reporting to the Senior Manager – Data Products, the Data Product Quality Lead will be part of the Data team and is responsible for transforming our data capability, bringing together years of industry expertise with the output from analytics and large data sets to deliver improvement to quality across critical data sets required for our safety and environmental scoring systems, and core processes including vetting services. 

You will oversee and lead all aspects of data quality assurance including applying industry best practices, developing new testing solutions and methods, and establishing metrics. You will be responsible for the testing and validation of data pipelines, platforms, and products. In this role, you will work closely with the departments’ Product Owners, coordinating with QA and developers as well as liaising with key project stakeholders as required. 

In this role, you will lead the data testing strategy across a wide variety of products and responsibilities, ensure data accuracy and integrity across systems, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality, trusted data solutions. 

Major Responsibilities 

DATA MANAGEMENT  

• Provide subject matter expertise in data management and governance  
• Liaise with Data Governance to establish and own a proactive data quality management framework 
• Drive adoption of data quality culture across the organization. 
• Effectively and efficiently manage data quality and validation activity   
• Use your ability to influence and support a diverse set of stakeholder groups to effectively manage Data Quality issues and incidents, contribute to the identification and remediation of issues  
• Manage master data, including creation, updates, protection and deletion  
• Ensure that data produced and provided is complete, accurate, valid and relevant using system validation and exception / control reports and consistent with regulation and internal policies  
• Data quality measurement and monitoring and data quality issue management and remediation  
• Develop reports and provide analysis  

ADMINISTRATION SUPPORT  

• Monitor and maintain quality assurance checking across Project Manager schedules and reports  
• Assess the quality of analysis and action plans related to operational issues and collaborate with relevant stakeholders to ensure effective resolution when necessary.  
• Offer support and guidance to data product users to help ensure that the information meets organizational and customer requirements. 

LEADERSHIP  

• Build trust and positive culture within RightShip  
• Embed RightShip’s values into everything we do  
• Lead, coach and develop the Data Quality Analysts within the team. Ensure a safe and inclusive workplace, which engages its employees  
• Drive a customer orientation and service minded approach  
• Ensure a safe and inclusive workplace, which engages its employees  
• Lead and direct staff to ensure achievement of quality and performance targets   

QUALITY AND STANDARDS  

• Support the implementation of global processes and instructions  
• Ensure that all governance and compliance procedures, policies and standards are followed to mitigate any potential risk to RightShip
• Contribute to continuous improvement of testing processes, tools, and documentation

Qualifications, Skills and Experience 

Must Have: 

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, Information Systems, Data Science, or a related field. 
• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working in data testing, QA, or similar roles. 
• Ability to lead testing efforts across multiple projects and remote teams.  
• Able to influence and drive projects to meet key milestones and overcome challenges  
• Possess the ability to work in a fast-paced environment that supports production and maintenance level changes  
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills  
• Strong understanding of data structures, ETL processes, and data warehousing concepts. 
• Proficiency in SQL and scripting languages. 
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills 
• Experience with automated testing tools and frameworks for data. 

Nice to have: 

• Working knowledge of Databricks, Power BI and other data and analytical tools. 
• Experience in maritime or environmental sectors. 

RightShip is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity, enables access and promotes inclusion in our workplace. You must have the right to live and work in this location to apply for this job.