Senior Data Analyst - Data Delivery & Strategy

M&G; England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Pension scheme

Job summary

M&G is seeking a senior data delivery professional to bridge business needs and technology delivery. You will lead complex data analysis, shape data definitions, and collaborate with business SMEs, Product Owners, Data Owners and data engineering teams.

You will ensure requirements are clear, validated and traceable, balancing business value, cost and risk while driving data governance across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Proven expertise combining business analysis, data analysis and data cataloguing.
• Ability to identify, document and validate complex data requirements.
• Proven expertise in Agile methodologies, writing good user stories in agile teams including validated definition of done / acceptance criteria.
• Proficient use of enterprise data platforms, semantic models and dimensional modelling.
• Proficiency in SQL for data validation and analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead the documentation and cataloguing of data requirements for existing and redesigned business processes.
• Lead complex data analysis to validate business requirements, including direct investigation of source systems.
• Translate data requirements into measurable business outcomes that support improved decision-making and operational efficiency.
• Assess and document upstream and downstream data flows, dependencies and interdependencies within the enterprise data architecture.
• Produce clear technical change specifications, User Stories and narratives that technology teams can build against, with end-to-end traceability.
• Interrogate and sense-check requirements from a sustainable data perspective.
• Lead data quality assessments and support the development of data-driven improvement strategies.
• Build strong working relationships across business SMEs, data engineering teams and senior stakeholders.

Skills

Business analysis

Data analysis

Data cataloguing

Agile methodologies

SQL for data validation

Data governance

Data modelling

Data architecture

Stakeholder engagement

Source-system investigation

Tools

Power BI

Snowflake

Azure

Databricks

Job description

M&G is seeking a senior data delivery professional to bridge business needs and technology delivery. You will lead complex data analysis, shape data definitions, and collaborate with business SMEs, Product Owners, Data Owners and data engineering teams.

You will ensure requirements are clear, validated and traceable, balancing business value, cost and risk while driving data governance across the enterprise.