Senior Business Analyst

Senior Business Analyst - Metadata Lead 24 months until December 2027 Hybrid – occasional travel to Reading Rate - £TBD Role Requirements: * Proven experience in metadata management and data governance within highly regulated environments. * Strong understanding of GDPR, PII, export controls, and protective markings. * Ability to work within Azure-based ecosystems and integrate emerging services. * Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills. Key Responsibilities: * Acts as a business analyst with deep data governance and metadata expertise. * Lead the design of the programme-wide metadata schema that must scale across all nations. * Engage with business users, legal teams, and security/export-control specialists to understand how data is classified and what restrictions apply. * Capture existing metadata requirements from stakeholders and harmonise them into a single structured model. * Consider and design for GDPR, PII, UK and international government protective markings, export control rules, and the EU AI Act. * Define controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and metadata categories needed for compliant data sharing. * Work closely with Data Custodians and Data Governance Deputy to ensure metadata and policy frameworks align. Desirable Skills: * Experience with metadata management tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Alation). * Knowledge of data modeling and enterprise architecture principles. * Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) for metadata integration