Business Analyst

Metadata Lead 24 months until December 2027 Hybrid – occasional travel to Reading Inside IR35 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.