Data Quality Engineer

About Reward Founded in 2001, Reward is an industry leader transforming the world of customer engagement and commerce media. Operating in 15 countries across Europe, Middle East and Asia, Reward’s cloud-based API platform integrates content, advertising, and commerce to deliver exceptional experiences for consumers resulting in increased customer engagement, retention, and overall satisfaction.

Reward’s Loyalty-tech platform is behind many award-winning bank loyalty programmes seen today from brands such as Visa, NatWest Group, Barclays, and First Abu Dhabi Bank to name a few. Their leading commerce media platform fuses purchase insights with loyalty-tech, offering an unparalleled edge in digital advertising and performance marketing for retailers. Leveraging rich data and insights, the Reward platform provides a comprehensive view of consumer behaviour, empowering retailers to target marketing messages more effectively, resulting in independently verified sales uplift and long-term customer lifetime value.

Beyond bridging the gap between content and commerce, Reward is a purpose driven business. We are seeking a Data Quality & Governance Engineer to ensure our data is accurate, complete, trusted, and compliant. You will design and operationalize data quality controls, establish and maintain end‑to‑end lineage, and embed governance-by-design across data products and pipelines. You’ll partner with engineering, analytics, security, and compliance to lead quality improvement and regulatory alignment initiatives at scale.

Data Quality Engineering
Define and implement data quality rules (validity, completeness, uniqueness, timeliness, conformity, integrity) across ingestion, transformation, and serving layers.
Build automated DQ testing and observability (anomaly detection, SLAs/SLOs) within CI/CD and orchestration workflows.
drive root‑cause analysis and preventative fixes.

· Data Lineage & Metadata
Enrich metadata (technical, business, operational) and integrate with data catalog and business glossary.
Ensure lineage visibility for auditors, stewards, and data product owners.

· Governance & Compliance
Operationalize data policies (classification, retention, access, usage) and embed privacy & security controls (e.g., Align with regulatory obligations (e.g., Partner with Legal/Security/Compliance to implement governed data sharing and data contracts.

· Lead quality improvement programs: define targets, metrics, and runbooks; Mentor engineers/analysts on best practices in DQ, lineage, and governance-by-design.
Publish dashboards and scorecards for data product quality; 5+ years in Data Engineering, Data Quality, or Data Governance roles with production systems.
~ Strong SQL and hands-on experience with one or more: Spark/Databricks, dbt, Airflow/Databricks Workflows, Kafka/Kinesis, Python.
~ Experience implementing data quality frameworks and observability (e.g., Understanding of governance frameworks (data classification, glossary, stewardship, ownership, access controls).
~ Solid grasp of privacy & compliance (GDPR/UK GDPR principles, DPIAs, data minimization, retention) and security (RBAC/ABAC, masking, encryption, key management).


Translates complex data issues into clear, actionable insights for execs and engineers.
Risk Mindset: Works cross-functionally with platform, analytics, InfoSec, and Legal.

Annual Leave: 25 days + bank holidays
Ability to buy and sell holiday days as well as the ability to bank days (tenure dependant)
Flexible working options: we are operating a hybrid working model with 3 days a week from the office
Pension: Employee share scheme
Private healthcare - Bupa
Critical illness cover
Life insurance cover
Dental cover
Optical cover
Yulife app for access to employee wellbeing and discounts
Perks at Work, cashback/discount shopping site
Employee referral scheme
Salary sacrifice program which includes cycle to work scheme, electric car scheme and season ticket loans
Company events i.e. Christmas party, all-company event and other social/hosted events during the year (we have an active social committee)