Data Quality Engineer

TEGNA Inc.•Tysons, VA

About The Position

TEGNA Inc. (NYSE: TGNA) helps people thrive in their local communities by providing the trusted local news and services that matter most. With 64 television stations in 51 U.S. markets, TEGNA reaches more than 100 million people monthly across the web, mobile apps, streaming, and linear television. Together, we are building a sustainable future for local news. The Data Quality & Governance Engineer is responsible for ensuring the data across our consumer data platform is accurate, consistent, documented, and trustworthy. This role focuses on implementing frameworks and processes to maintain high data integrity, which is foundational to all analytics and activation use cases.

Requirements

4+ years of experience in data quality, data governance, or a related data engineering field.
Expert-level SQL skills for data profiling, analysis, and validation.
Solid understanding of ETL/ELT development and data modeling concepts.
A meticulous and detail-oriented mindset with a passion for data accuracy.

Nice To Haves

Programming experience in Python for writing custom data quality checks and automation.
Experience working in a cloud data warehouse environment like Snowflake.
Familiarity with data privacy regulations and concepts.

Responsibilities

Act as the subject matter expert for our product analytics platform, Amplitude, driving its adoption and ensuring data integrity.
Partner with Product and Marketing teams to define KPIs and build dashboards and reports to monitor user engagement, feature adoption, and campaign performance.
Implement and manage automated data quality testing and validation frameworks within our ETL/ELT pipelines (DBT tests, Great Expectations).
Excellent data analysis skills (using Sql, GraphQL) to identify root cause of issues
Act as the primary owner of the data quality assurance framework, investigating and triaging data issues and driving them to resolution.
Work with source system owners and analysts to define and enforce data standards.

Benefits

TEGNA offers comprehensive benefits designed to safeguard the physical, mental and financial health of our employees and their families. TEGNA offers two medical plan options for full and part-time employees through Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas, as well as access to dental and eye care coverage; fertility, surrogacy and adoption assistance; disability and life insurance.
Our 401(k) program offers full, part-time and temporary employees the opportunity to contribute 1% - 80% of their pay on a pre-tax basis to TEGNA’s 401(k). Contributions made up to the first 4% of pay are eligible for a 100% match from the company and are 100% vested from day one.
Regardless of participation in TEGNA medical plans, ALL employees and their eligible family members receive nine free virtual doctor’s appointments with a physician through Teladoc, and 12 free annual therapy sessions with a licensed clinician through Spring Health.
TEGNA offers a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) benefit as well as nine paid holidays per year.
Some jobs are covered by a collective bargaining agreement and thus some or all of the benefits described herein may not apply. For example, some newsroom bargaining unit employees receive health and retirement benefits under plans administered by the union.

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