Senior Business Analyst

Competitive day rate.
Opportunity to shape the governance, standards, and operating frameworks.

About Our Client

Our client is a leading public sector organisation delivering large-scale data and digital initiatives that support economic growth, collaboration, and innovation across the UK. This programme offers the opportunity to contribute to a high-profile data transformation project with significant national impact.

Job Description

Develop data-sharing rulebooks, agreements, and reusable governance templates.
Define and maintain tourism-related data taxonomies, metadata standards, and schema guidance.
Design governance frameworks including participation criteria, change management processes, and dispute resolution mechanisms.
Work with technical teams to align business governance requirements with platform implementation.
Create guidance on data harmonisation, structure, and interoperability across multiple data sources.
Develop toolkits and standards for data uploads, metadata management, and collaboration.
Capture lessons learned from programme participants and drive continuous improvement.
Define accreditation and trust mark frameworks for data suppliers and consumers.
Assess conformity assessment models and recommend appropriate assurance approaches.
Establish security and data protection baselines in collaboration with legal and information security teams.
Produce business analysis artefacts including process maps, requirements documents, operating models, and RACI matrices.
Facilitate workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions across technical and non-technical audiences.
Support programme governance through reporting, risk management, and steering group documentation.

The Successful Applicant

A successful Senior Business Analyst should have:

Proven experience delivering business analysis within enterprise data platform, analytics, or cloud data transformation programmes.
Strong knowledge of data governance, data management, stewardship, ownership models, data quality, and metadata management.
Experience working with modern cloud data platforms such as Databricks, Snowflake, Microsoft Fabric, Azure Data Lake, or similar technologies.
Knowledge of data catalogues, data lineage, master data management, and data governance tooling.
Experience defining business and governance requirements for data platforms and analytics solutions.
Understanding of data architecture principles, data modelling, metadata standards, and information management frameworks.
Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to engage technical and non-technical audiences.
Experience facilitating workshops and translating business requirements into actionable platform capabilities.
Knowledge of data privacy, information security, UK GDPR, and regulatory requirements.
Excellent communication, documentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Experience working independently and managing deliverables in complex transformation programmes.
Understanding of Data & AI platforms and the role of trusted, governed data in enabling advanced analytics and reporting.
Experience within the public sector is highly desirable.