About the Role
Join our Data Quality and Governance team to ensure critical data is trustworthy, monitored, and ready for decision-making. This role involves managing DQPro rules and Ataccama data quality monitoring, performing validation and reconciliations to identify issues, and improving production stability. It offers opportunities for hands-on problem-solving, operational excellence, and development in modern data quality tooling.
Responsibilities
- Own day-to-day DQ monitoring across DQPro and Ataccama, keeping controls current, effective, and well-documented.
- Run validation, reconciliations, and profiling to identify anomalies, false positives, and root causes.
- Produce data analysis and feedback to evidence progress, highlight trends, and ensure clear visibility of data quality status and outcomes.
- Support release and environment checks (pre-prod to prod) and help transition new controls into stable BAU monitoring.
- Maintain DQ registers, rule inventories and evidence packs, producing clear summaries for governance forums.
- Build familiarity with Reference Data Management (RDM) processes and support the business with ad-hoc queries, guidance and operational needs.
- Track recurring issues and improvements, partnering with stakeholders to drive remediation and strengthen monitoring over time.
Requirements
- Self-motivated and capable individual.
- Ability to work independently and as a team player.
- Effective communication skills across functions.
- Passion for developing and maintaining positive data management practices.
- Flexible, proactive, and customer-focused mindset.
- Support business-as-usual (BAU) operations related to reference data and data quality management.
- Contribute to the rollout of strategic data programmes.
- Open to participating in and supporting change management initiatives.
- Embed new ways of working across the organisation.
Skills
- Strong SQL fundamentals – able to read, test and make minor adjustments to queries.
- Proven capability in data validation and reconciliation, with good attention to detail.
- Confidence working with data quality controls, including thresholds, exceptions and outcomes.
- Clear written communication, with the ability to produce concise, structured documentation.
- Execution-focused and comfortable with repeatable operational tasks.
- Receptive to feedback and structured ways of working.
- Exposure to DQPro, Ataccama, or similar DQ tools.
- Knowledge of insurance data.
- Understanding of data governance concepts (ownership, SLA, severity, escalation).
- Experience with Power BI and/or Tableau for dashboards and data visualization.
- Basic familiarity with Databricks / cloud data platforms.
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Flexible working patterns
Experience Level
- Not specified
Education Level
- Not specified
Salary/Compensations
- A great starting salary plus annual bonus
Benefits
- Up to 16% company pension scheme
- Private medical and dental cover
- Menopause plan
- Emergency care benefit (children/Pets/dependants)
- Income protection
- Life assurance
- Electric car scheme
- Travel insurance
- 25 days paid holiday plus Bank Holidays
- Opportunity to buy/sell extra leave
- Countless opportunities to learn new skills and develop in your career
About the Company
- Markel is searching for a self-motivated and capable individual.
- Part of Markel Group (NYSE – MKL) a Fortune 500 company with over 60 offices in 20+ countries.
- A holding company for insurance, reinsurance, specialist advisory, and investment operations around the world.
- The work we do at Markel gives people the confidence to move forward, reach their full potential and seize opportunities.
- You’ll find your fit amongst our diverse global community of optimists and problem-solvers.
- We’re always pushing each other to think further because we believe that when we strive for better and realise our potential, we can help others reach theirs.
- Join us and play your part in something special!
Equal Opportunity
- At Markel we are all about the people, celebrating the value of a diverse workforce that brings experience and expertise from a wide variety of backgrounds and life circumstances.
- Whatever your background, if you feel you meet the requirements of this role then we want to hear from you.
- We will ensure that individuals are provided with any reasonable accommodations to be able to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions if successful.
- Please contact us via email at rec@markel.com or call us at 0161 507 5827 to request any accommodations or adjustments that may be needed, including alternative formats of documents or information on how to apply offline.
