Associate Operational Access Management Analyst

Associate Operational Access Management Analyst Salary:
Competitive Plus Benefits

Location:

Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park, Coventry, CV7 9RD

Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 05 March 2026
Requisition :

We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles.

We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.

London office and home

The Associate Operational Access Management Analyst role will drive and deliver access management controls, audits and improvements. This role is key to supporting our business to be compliant to regulations and policies by managing data and colleague permissions to access different classifications/sensitivities of data.

The role, part of our Operational Governance team within our Customer & Data domain in Sainsbury’s Tech, will involve working across multiple systems, using a range of tools and technologies to support us to operate effectively in protecting the business.

The key responsibilities of this role are to manage on two types of governance activity: our approach to Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and democratised data (i.e. the data freely available to the analytics community).

The fundamental purpose of the role is to ensure that our data is protected as a corporate asset and, as such, we need to manage, improve and govern it in a way which creates value from that asset. This role will support our compliance to both information and data policies.

• Utilise all defined processes to facilitate providing colleagues access to privileged systems and tools.
• Support the implementation of the Personal Identifiable Information (PII) process creation and maintenance of our internal system controls.
• Taking the lead from corporate policy, contribute to the building of workflows used for accessing PII data, helping to identify relevant stakeholders and owners to continuously improve processes for granting colleague access to PII and Commercially Sensitive data.
• Use systems (Microsoft Forms, JIRA etc.) for managing access and in parallel document the process for audit and compliance.
• Ensure access requests and approval are recorded and auditable via ticketing system.
• Reporting and policing existing access to PII data aligned to our standing operating procedures in the team.
• BAU support of PII access and issues, including facilitate access requests and providing support and guidance for use of PII data where needed.
• Provide guidance and be a single point of contact for PII access needs and questions.
• Provide reporting where needed to Group Governance and entity/data owners (for awareness of colleagues who can access their resources).

• Focus on regular and robust self-auditing of activities and auditing across Sainsbury’s data community.
• Robust focus on who has access to PII including managing access for leavers/movers and auditing of non-used access and expiring where needed.
• Curiosity to understand our opportunity for continuous improvement, including suggesting and testing new ideas, while ensuring PII access considerations are specified and our user experience is maintained during capability developments.
• Escalation of non‑compliance up to Head of Operational Governance through specified tools.
• Collaborative not only in the Operational Governance team but across Sainsbury’s data.
• Be a problem solver, especially identifying and resolving specific access issues.
• Proactive in supporting our ambition to build automation of access management and monitoring, aligned to the Operational Governance strategy.
• Role‑model for great access management and promote the benefits to all.
• Managing a variety of complex tasks within tight…