Data Governance Analyst Manchester Hybrid

Oliver James
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Last month
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Data Governance Analyst

Manchester | Hybrid (2-3 days office)

We're looking for a hands-on, business-facing Data Governance Analyst to support a growing specialty insurance business and strengthen its Data Governance Framework. You'll join a small central team covering global markets, working alongside Data Management, Data Quality and AI Ethics leads to embed consistent, mature data practices across the organisation.

The Role

You'll work across a variety of data initiatives, new products, operational migrations, and process changes, helping the business understand their data requirements, ownership, frequency, and usage. You'll define data points, create clear business definitions, assess whether data needs to be conformed across sources, and specify physical attributes such as data types and lengths.

You'll support modelling this data in the platform, partnering closely with engineering teams, and contribute to the rollout of metadata and quality standards. You'll also help introduce Data Management Plans that bring clarity to ownership, stewardship and the handling of master and reference data.

This is a practical, varied role ideal for someone who enjoys solving data problems, engaging with the business, and shaping governance in a developing environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Support delivery of data standards, information models, metadata and data quality requi...

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