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Senior Business Analyst - Metadata Lead

24 months until December 2027

Hybrid – occasional travel to Reading

Rate - £TBD

Role Requirements:

* Proven experience in metadata management and data governance within highly regulated environments.

* Strong understanding of GDPR, PII, export controls, and protective markings.

* Ability to work within Azure-based ecosystems and integrate emerging services.

* Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Key Responsibilities:

* Acts as a business analyst with deep data governance and metadata expertise.

* Lead the design of the programme-wide metadata schema that must scale across all nations.

* Engage with business users, legal teams, and security/export-control specialists to understand how data is classified and what restrictions apply.

* Capture existing metadata requirements from stakeholders and harmonise them into a single structured model.

* Consider and design for GDPR, PII, UK and international government protective markings, export control rules, and the EU AI Act.

* Define controlled vocabularies, taxonomies, and metadata categories needed for compliant data sharing.

* Work closely with Data Custodians and Data Governance Deputy to ensure metadata and policy frameworks align.

Desirable Skills:

* Experience with metadata management tools (e.g., Collibra, Informatica, Alation).

* Knowledge of data modeling and enterprise architecture principles.

* Familiarity with cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) for metadata integration