Senior Data Analyst

Job Description:

Senior Data Analyst

Salary:From £44,900 per annum plus benefits

Contract type:Permanent

Shift pattern:Full-time – 37.5 hours per week

Location:Hybrid / Staines (TW18 3DZ), Manchester (M30 3SP), London (EC2R 7HJ), Leeds(LS5 3BF) - 2-day min in office per month

We make health happen

Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.

Role Overview

The Senior Data Governance Analyst will play a critical role in embedding data governance best practices across market-unit product squads. This positionis responsible forensuring that products adhere to robust guardrails for responsible and safe data use.As the subject matter expert for Data Governance within product teams, you will champion best practices, influence design decisions, and ensure governance principles are integrated throughout the product lifecycle.The role requiresexpertisein data governance frameworks, strong analytical skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to uphold organisational standards.

How you’ll help us make health happen:

• Implement and Evolve Governance Frameworks: Establish and continuously improve data governance frameworks, policies, and controls to ensure data accuracy, integrity, and security across all domains.
• Act as Product Team SME: Serve as the subject matter expert for Data Governance within product squads, ensuring designs and implementations adhere to governance standards and best practices.
• Advise and Influence: Act as a trusted advisor to senior business and technology leaders, shaping decisions on governance strategy, compliance, and risk management.
• Develop Governance Assets: Lead the creation and adoption of key artefacts such as data dictionaries, catalogues, lineage documentation, and metadata repositories.
• Champion Data Literacy: Promote data literacy across the organisation by designing and delivering education programmes for non-data professionals.
• Integrate Governance with Platforms: Drive governance integration with strategic platforms (e.g., Dynamics CRM, Snowflake, Power BI) and ensure alignment with agile delivery models.
• Ensure Regulatory Compliance: Lead governance efforts for compliance with regulations, ensuring robust controls and audit readiness.
• Align with Organisational Goals: Collaborate with IT and business units to align governance initiatives with organisational priorities and strategicobjectives.
• Represent Governance in Forums: Influence enterprise architecture, data strategy, and digital transformation initiatives through active participation in governance forums.
• MaintainDocumentation: Keep governance processes and tools up to date to ensure effective knowledge management.
• Foster Collaboration: Build strong relationships with Data Office teams to ensure clarity of roles and collaborative support.
• Mentor Junior Professionals: Guide and develop junior governance team members, fostering a culture of accountability and excellence.

Key Skills / Qualifications Needed For This Role

• Proven experienceas aSeniorDataAnalyst, ideally inacomplex, regulated environments.
• Deep knowledge ofdata management principles, governance frameworks, and industry best practices.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability todrive cultural changearound data.
• Strong technicalexpertiseinSnowflake,SQL,Power BI, and familiarity withAzure DevOps, confluence.
• Understanding ofregulatory frameworks(e.g. GDPR) and risk management.
• Experience withmetadata management, data quality tooling, and MDM platforms.
• Familiarity with Dynamics CRM or equivalent technology is favourable.
• Experience withProduct Operating Modelapproachesis preferred.
• Professional certifications such asDCAM,CDMP,highly desirable.

Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind
• An enhanced pension plan and life insuranceOnsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available
• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Area:

IT

Locations:

Angel Court, London, Bupa Place, Kirkstall Forge, Staines - Willow House

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