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What You Need To Know

Shape a remarkable future with us. Build a career working for an industry leader that truly invests in their people – and equips them with leading technology, continuous learning, and the ability to bring their best selves to work. As the premier wine and spirits distributor, Southern Glazer’s isn't just one of Forbes’ Top Private Companies; it's a family-owned business with deep roots dating back to 1933.

The reputation of Southern Glazer’s is well-established, and it's no surprise that we are regularly recognized for our culture. Southern Glazer’s has been recognized by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Inclusion and Diversity, as well as for Women and Parents and Families. These accolades speak volumes about our commitment to creating a supportive and inclusive culture of belonging for all employees.

As a full-time employee, you can choose from a wide-ranging menu of our Top Shelf Benefits, including comprehensive medical and prescription drug coverage, dental and vision plans, tax-saving Flexible Spending Accounts, disability coverage, life insurance plans, and a 401(k) plan. We also offer tuition assistance, a wellness program, parental leave, vacation accrual, paid sick leave, and more.

By joining Southern Glazer’s, you would be part of a team that values excellence, innovation, and community. This is more than just a job – it's an opportunity to build the future of beverage distribution and grow with a company that truly cares about its people.

Overview

Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is accelerating its digital transformation by adopting Databricks as our enterprise data platform and migrating all data quality processes to this unified environment. As we build a modern, governed data ecosystem, the Senior Data Quality Analyst will play a pivotal role in ensuring trust in our data across operations and analytics. This role requires deep expertise in data structures, data pipelines, and an understanding of the operational and analytical impact of data quality. You will partner with internal teams, suppliers, customers, and third-party partners to proactively identify, remediate, and prevent data issues. Passion for the wine and spirits category is a plus.

If you want to join a team that is focused on building trusted data foundations on a modern lakehouse platform and desire to shape how data quality drives business outcomes at the nation’s leading wine and spirits distributor, we’d love to hear from you!

Primary Responsibilities

Data Quality

+ Design, develop, and maintain data quality rules, profiles, scorecards, and monitoring solutions

+ Proactively monitor data quality across SGWS data ecosystems.

+ Perform root-cause analysis to determine whether issues originate in (1) source systems, (2) ingestion/transformation pipelines, or (3) consumption layers; recommend technical, process, or governance improvements.

+ Collaborate with Data Engineering and Data Governance teams to implement automated data quality controls and remediation.

+ Validate resolution of data quality issues post-remediation and ensure sustained compliance with defined standards.

Data Validation

+ Lead data validation efforts on strategic projects, including creation of validation plans, data profiling, rule design, and defect tracking.

+ Document data definitions, lineage, transformation logic, and quality rules to support project deliverables (data flow diagrams, translators, defect logs).

Data Governance & Enablement

+ Actively participate in the enterprise Data Governance program, including stewardship of critical data elements.Deliver research, discovery analysis, and presentations to advance data management and governance initiatives.

Minimum Qualifications

+ Bachelor’s degree in Information Science, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or related field.

+ 3–5 years of hands-on data quality experience (rules engine development, profiling, scorecards, root-cause analysis).

+ Strong understanding of data structures, dimensional modeling, pipeline orchestration, and the impact of data quality on operational and analytical use cases.

+ Experience in Power BI or Tableau for data quality dashboarding and reporting is highly valued.

+ Intermediate to advanced SQL skills; ability to write complex queries for profiling and validation.

+ Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Visio).

+ Exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills with proven ability to influence cross-functional partners.

Preferred Qualifications

+ Proficiency with Databricks (Unity Catalog, Delta Lake, Lakehouse Monitoring, Delta Live Tables, or dbt) for data quality implementation.

+ Experience migrating data quality processes from legacy tools (Informatica IDQ, Alteryx etc.) to Databricks.

+ Knowledge of data governance frameworks and tools (Unity Catalog governance, Apache Atlas, etc.).

+ Familiarity with Python or PySpark for custom data quality checks.

+ Certification in Databricks (e.g., Databricks Certified Data Engineer Associate/Professional) or Power BI (DA-100/PL-300).

+ Prior work in consumer goods, distribution, or beverage alcohol industries.

Physical Demands

+ Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) or mobile device

+ Physical demands include a considerable amount of time walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping

+ May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

EEO Statement

Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits, an Affirmative Action/EEO employer, prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type and provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training. SGWS complies with all federal, state and local laws concerning consideration of a qualified applicant's arrest and/or criminal conviction records. Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides competitive compensation based on estimated performance level consistent with the past relevant experience, knowledge, skills, abilities and education of employees. Unless otherwise expressly stated, any pay ranges posted here are estimates from outside of Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits and do not reflect Southern Glazer's pay bands or ranges.

_If you have any questions or concerns about whether this posting complies/adheres with local pay transparency requirements, please contact the SGWS talent acquisition team at [email protected]_

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Southern Glazer's Wine and Spirits provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.