An embodiment of the present invention is directed to an on-demand data quality assessment that receives a request to trigger a data quality process on a dataset at rest, wherein the request includes an application name, a platform name, a database name, a schema name, and a dataset name. The system includes a data quality process configured to execute data quality rules against the dataset and generate a job identifier for the data quality process. The system includes a response component configured to return the job identifier in response to the request and further return data quality results in response to a subsequent request including the job identifier. The data quality results include individual rule results with failure counts and pass or fail determinations, and summary metrics showing total rules executed, passed, and failed.