Data Governance Analyst Manchester Hybrid in Manchester - Oliver James

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 requirements
• Translate business conversations into structured data requirements and documentation
• Define and document data points, attributes, rules and business definitions
• Work with engineering to model data and implement governance requirements
• Support rollout of metadata and quality tooling
• Build strong relationships across business, operations, IT and engineering teams
• Act as the primary contact for your assigned work packages
• Help embed best practice and maturing governance processes across the organisation

What You'll Bring

• Interest or experience in data governance, data management or related areas
• Ability to turn business needs into clear data requirements and actionable artefacts
• Strong organisational skills and confidence working independently
• Excellent stakeholder engagement capability across all levels
• Proactive, hands-on mindset with willingness to get involved in both business and technical detail
• Interest in tools like Databricks, Informatica, and Excel-based governance templates
• Curiosity, initiative and a desire to grow alongside a maturing data governance function

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