Company Summary
Join a team that puts its People First! First American's Direct division provides comprehensive title insurance protection and professional settlement services for real estate purchases, refinances and equity loans. Since 1889, First American (NYSE: FAF) has held an unwavering belief in its people. They are passionate about what they do, and we are equally passionate about fostering an environment where all feel welcome, supported, and empowered to be innovative and reach their full potential. Our inclusive, people-first culture has earned our company numerous accolades, including being named to the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® list for six consecutive years. We have also earned awards as a best place to work for women, diversity and LGBTQ+ employees, and have been included on more than 50 regional best places to work lists. First American will always strive to be a great place to work, for all. For more information, please visit www.careers.firstam.com.Job Summary
Reviews, analyzes, and ensures the quality of data loaded into database systems. Provides production job support from a quality perspective. Must be able to understand business rules, work with varying data formats, and develop metrics and audit procedures to monitor data quality. Understand, query and manipulate varying data and file formats. Identify, compare, and resolve data quality problems. Evaluate business impact of specific data quality issues. Measure and audit large volumes of varying data for quality issues. Works with multiple groups, including overseas groups, to resolve issues.
Essential Functions
- Utilize tools to analyze, query and manipulate data according to defined business rules and procedures.
- Performs QC tests (system and visual) to verify data integrity.
- Assist in correcting minor data quality errors.
- Documents and works to resolve basic problems.
- May update/maintain database with reviewed and corrected data.
- Communicate issues to programmers to resolve data quality issues.
- Updates logs, tracks user requests, fulfills basic requests.
Knowledge and Skills/Technology Used
- Knowledge of required tools to query and manipulate data in varying file formats.
- Knowledge of all types of data formats and file structures.
- Ability to follow data quality standards, metrics and audit procedures.
- Generally conveys technical issues/problems to programmers.
- Strong detail orientation.
- Tenacity for solving detailed issues.
- Knowledge of MS Word and Excel to create/update documents and spreadsheets containing basic formulas and formatting.
Typical Education
- High School diploma or equivalent
Typical Range of Experience
- Typically has 1-3 years of directly related experience.