Senior Data Governance Analyst

A well-established global organisation in the insurance/financial services sector, recognised for technical expertise and a collaborative, high-performance culture. The business is investing in data, governance, and operational resilience to support strategic growth, strengthen controls, and improve decision-making across the enterprise.

This role is responsible for strengthening and operating a robust data governance framework to protect data integrity, reduce risk, and enable confident decision-making. You’ll lead and support governance initiatives across policy, stewardship, metadata, master data management, and compliance—working closely with stakeholders across the business and technology to embed best practice data management.

• Data policies and standards: Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to implement and enforce data governance policies, standards, and procedures for data usage, access, and handling.
• Data stewardship: Work with data owners/stewards to support data ownership, classification, and metadata management, ensuring alignment with regulatory and internal requirements.
• Master Data Management (MDM): Drive accountability for MDM implementation and ongoing maintenance to improve data integrity, quality, and policy compliance.
• Data documentation: Maintain and improve core governance artefacts including data dictionaries, catalogues, lineage, and data flow documentation.
• Governance tooling SME: Administer and maintain metadata within data governance platforms (e.g., Microsoft Purview and MDM tooling such as Profisee or equivalent).
• Project oversight: Provide governance leadership and assurance for data projects, ensuring alignment to governance principles through guidance, controls, and review.
• Lead key initiatives: Deliver initiatives across the governance lifecycle, including data minimisation, data loss prevention, backup & recovery, data quality, classification, catalogue & lineage, MDM, and compliance.
• Training and enablement: Create and deliver data governance training, promote best practices, and recommend improvements to processes to enhance data management maturity and reduce privacy risk.
• Ad hoc support: Contribute to wider data and governance priorities as required.

• Significant experience (typically 7+ years) in a data-related discipline, with 3+ years in data governance or closely related roles (e.g., senior data analyst, business analyst, compliance analyst, data steward).
• Hands‑on delivery experience across data governance and data management initiatives, including Master Data Management.
• Strong understanding of data governance principles and best practice (metadata, lineage, classification, data quality, controls).
• Proven ability to lead or coordinate governance initiatives and drive process improvement across stakeholders.
• Experience working with data privacy regulations and compliance expectations (e.g., GDPR and other relevant frameworks).
• Practical experience with data warehousing and business intelligence environments and reporting tools (e.g., Power BI and equivalents).
• Working knowledge of Microsoft 365 collaboration tooling (e.g., SharePoint, One Drive, Teams).
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, and training capability—able to influence across varying levels of technical understanding.
• Highly organised, proactive, and comfortable working independently in a fast‑moving environment.

• Experience with Microsoft Purview data governance modules and/or similar governance platforms.
• Experience with MDM platforms (e.g., Profisee) and implementing metadata/catalogue/lineage practices at scale.
• Insurance or financial services domain experience (e.g., property & casualty, reinsurance, liability, or specialty lines).
• Familiarity with additional data protection and operational resilience regulations/standards (e.g., HIPAA, CCPA, DORA) depending on business footprint.
• Awareness of emerging trends in governance, analytics, AI/ML, and data security protocols.