Lead Business Analyst - Data models for Microsoft Fabric

Randstad; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a skilled Lead Business Analyst to join their Data and Analytics Team. The role involves setting up semantic models, ensuring data traceability, and leading a team to enhance metadata management. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in data governance, technical design, and stakeholder management. This contract role offers a competitive daily rate and a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive practical experience as a Metadata Manager and Architect.
• Successful implementation of metadata tooling improvements.
• Proficiency in technical design and designing stakeholder user experiences with lineage.

Responsibilities

• Set up semantic models and ensure end-to-end traceability of data.
• Co-lead the development of data models with data architects.
• Support the integration of tools with data tooling and change engineering.

Skills

Metadata management

Data governance

Stakeholder management

Logical data modeling

Technical design

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Solidatus

Aperture

Job description

Are you an experienced Business Analyst with expertise in establishing robust data governance and lineage in a modern data environment? A leading financial institution is seeking a skilled contractor to take on a pivotal role within their Data and Analytics Team.

Lead Business Analyst - Data models for Microsoft Fabric

Rate: £650 - £750 per day (via Umbrella Company)

Contract length: 4 months (with a view to extend)

Location: Hybrid London

You will be responsible for setting up semantic models and ensuring end-to-end traceability of data from ingestion to consumption across the enterprise. This is a key leadership role with management responsibility, driving the foundational capabilities for trustworthy data consumption.

Key responsibilities and focus areas

• Metadata and lineage leadership:
  • Set up semantic models, physical lineage linked to the logical data catalog, and ensure end-to-end traceability.
  • Manage and maintain logical lineage for critical data and lead stakeholder conversations on lineage tracking and remediation.
  • Work with analysts and designers to capture metadata as core deliverables and manage maintenance of metadata/process map artefacts.
• Enterprise data models:
  • Co‑lead the development of data models with data architects to support system design.
  • Support logical data models and co‑own master data management with data architecture.
• Tooling and platform implementation:
  • Support the implementation requirements for Purview with Fabric.
  • Support the integration of tools like Solidatus and Aperture with data tooling and change engineering.
  • Establish and effectively run a suite of data management tools, including metadata catalogs and Microsoft tooling.

Essential knowledge and experience

• Extensive practical experience as a Metadata Manager and Architect.
• Successful implementation of metadata tooling improvements.
• Proficiency in technical design and designing stakeholder user experiences with lineage.
• Current working knowledge of industry best practice (e.g., DAMA/EDM).
• Understanding and experience of logical data modelling and data normalisation.
• Experience designing metadata and lineage controls, including metric/KPI production.

Highly desirable

• Experience in an Investment or Commercial Bank, Asset or Fund Manager.
• Experience managing teams (direct and/or indirect reporting).
• Qualification or experience in an architecture framework (e.g., TOGAF).

If you are a driven Metadata Lead ready to ensure data is well-defined, fully understood, and consumable with confidence in its integrity and lineage, apply today!

Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.