{"id":3394415,"url":"https://alion.io/job/ebrd-principal-quality-eng-data-analytics","title":"Principal, Quality Eng; Data & Analytics","company":{"id":1756246,"name":"EBRD","domain":"ebrd.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/ebrd-com","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"SuccessFactors","truth_index":null},"role":"QA","role_family":"QA","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["London, United Kingdom"],"countries":["GB"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":52000,"max_usd":156000,"period":"year","method":"global_role_cell_scaled_by_country","sample_n":332},"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Agile","optional":false},{"name":"Azure","optional":false},{"name":"Azure Data Factory","optional":false},{"name":"Azure DevOps","optional":false},{"name":"CI/CD","optional":false},{"name":"Git","optional":false},{"name":"Informatica","optional":false},{"name":"Microsoft Fabric","optional":false},{"name":"MS SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Power BI","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Shift-Left Security","optional":false},{"name":"SQL","optional":false},{"name":"Anomaly Detection","optional":true},{"name":"Chaos Engineering","optional":true},{"name":"ITIL","optional":true},{"name":"JMeter","optional":true},{"name":"k6","optional":true},{"name":"Locust","optional":true},{"name":"NIST CSF","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-10T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-08-10","last_verified_at":"2026-11-02T12:38:15Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":84,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":84},"description":"Requisition ID\n36990\n\nOffice Country\nUnited Kingdom\n\nOffice City\nLondon\n\nDivision\nInformation Technology \n\nContract Type\nRegular \n\nContract Length\n\nPosting End Date\n03/11/2026\n\nPrincipal, Data and Analytics Quality Engineering Lead\nShape how quality is engineered across mission-critical financial platforms.\nThis is a rare opportunity to lead Quality Engineering at scale, driving intelligent automation, embedding quality into every stage of delivery, and redefining how enterprise data, integration and analytics platforms are tested, validated and trusted. You’ll operate across a diverse technology landscape spanning Microsoft Fabric, EBX, Azure Integration Services, Informatica IDMC and Control-M orchestration, bringing together modern QE practices, AI-driven insights and deep domain expertise to ensure resilience, accuracy and performance where it matters most.\nIf you’re passionate about transforming quality from a checkpoint into a strategic engineering capability and want to make a visible impact in a complex, regulated environment, this is your moment.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDefine and lead Quality Engineering strategy across the Data & Analytics platform estate, ensuring quality is embedded from design through to operational support across data, integration, master/reference data and reporting capabilities.\n\nLead platform-wide assurance across Microsoft Fabric, EBX, Azure Integration Services, Informatica IDMC and Control-M, ensuring consistent quality standards, automation patterns and governance controls across the full technology landscape.\n\nEmbed automation-first testing into CI/CD pipelines, covering functional, regression, reconciliation, interface, data quality and operational validation across cloud data platforms and integration services.\n\nDefine validation approaches for Microsoft Fabric workloads, including Lakehouse and Warehouse structures, Medallion Architecture flows, Data Factory pipelines, notebooks, semantic models, Power BI outputs and Direct Lake reporting patterns.\n\nEstablish QA practices for EBX master and reference data capabilities, including workflow validation, hierarchy testing, data governance rule validation, reference data integrity and integration with downstream consuming platforms.\n\nDefine assurance patterns for Azure Integration Services, including API and interface testing, message validation, event-driven integration, retry handling, exception paths, monitoring, alerting and resilience scenarios.\n\nLead QA for Informatica IDMC and related data integration services, including ingestion, transformation, reconciliation, lineage validation, data quality rules and migration assurance from legacy platforms where applicable.\n\nShape testing for the target-state Control-M orchestration model, covering batch scheduling, dependency validation, restartability, recovery, SLA monitoring, operational handover and end-to-end runbook assurance.\n\nAlign QA practices with regulatory frameworks including SOX, DORA and IFRS, and modern delivery models including Agile, DevOps, DataOps and QA-Ops.\n\nPartner with business domain experts, data owners, architects and engineering teams to ensure data accuracy, integrity, lineage, financial validation and operational resilience are built into test strategies.\n\nDesign test data and environment strategies for complex financial, integration and analytics scenarios, including payments, GL postings, month-end processes, master/reference data updates, batch orchestration and downstream reporting.\n\nDrive innovation in testing using AI/ML techniques, performance engineering, observability, service resilience validation and data quality analytics.\n\nElevate engineering maturity through shift-left and shift-right testing, reusable automation frameworks, quality gates, continuous improvement and measurable QE outcomes.\n\nNeed to Have - Your Essentials\nDemonstrable experience leading QA or Quality Engineering across modern Data & Analytics platforms, including data ingestion, transformation, orchestration, semantic modelling, reporting and operational support.\n\nStrong experience testing modern data platform configuration, data feeds, inputs and outputs across Microsoft Fabric, Medallion Architecture patterns, Azure Data Lake Gen2, SQL-based warehouses and related analytics services.\n\nPractical understanding of Microsoft Fabric workloads including Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Factory, Dataflows Gen2, notebooks, semantic models, Power BI, DAX and XMLA-based validation.\n\nExperience validating end-to-end data flows across source systems, integration layers, Lakehouse or warehouse stores, semantic models and downstream reporting outputs.\n\nExperience or strong working knowledge of EBX, Azure Integration Services, Informatica IDMC and Control-M-style scheduling or orchestration capabilities.\n\nProficiency in writing or reviewing technical validation queries and scripts using T-SQL, Python, Power Query, DAX or equivalent technologies for data reconciliation, data quality and transformation testing.\n\nExperience embedding testing into CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, Git-based workflows, branching strategies, quality gates and automated deployment controls.\n\nStrong leadership experience in Quality Engineering or QA within enterprise, financial services or regulated environments.\n\nProven ability to define test strategy, automation strategy, environment strategy and test data strategy for complex, multi-platform delivery programmes.\n\nDeep knowledge of test automation frameworks, data reconciliation approaches, interface validation, regression testing, performance validation and service resilience assurance.\n\nStrong understanding of regulatory and operational risk considerations, including SOX, DORA, IFRS, auditability, traceability and business continuity.\n\nAbility to influence stakeholders and embed quality across business, architecture, engineering, operations and supplier teams.\n\nExcellent communication skills, strategic mindset and ability to translate complex technical quality risks into clear business-facing insight.\n\nNice to Have\nISTQB Advanced Test Manager or equivalent quality leadership certification.\n\nITIL v3/v4 Foundation or experience aligning QA with service management practices.\n\nExperience applying AI/ML in Quality Engineering, including test optimisation, defect prediction, anomaly detection or analytics-led assurance.\n\nExperience with enterprise orchestration tools such as Control-M, Autosys or equivalent scheduling platforms.\n\nExperience with master or reference data management platforms such as EBX, including governance, workflow and hierarchy validation.\n\nExperience with enterprise integration observability, API monitoring, data lineage, data governance or data quality tooling.\n\nExperience supporting Microsoft Fabric adoption, migration or modernisation programmes.\n\nFamiliarity with NIST CSF or other cybersecurity frameworks.\n\nExperience in performance, scalability and resilience testing using tools such as JMeter, k6 or Locust.\n\nExperience scaling QE practices across large, complex organisations.\n\nFamiliarity with chaos engineering or resilience testing approaches.\n\nWhy You’ll Love This Role\nBecause this is more than QA leadership.\nThis is about redefining how quality is engineered across an entire organisation.\nYou’ll influence how critical financial systems are validated, how risk is reduced, and how engineering teams deliver with confidence at scale. 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