Senior Business Analyst (London)

Insight Investment is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to join the Core Data Engineering team in London. With a primary focus on the end-to-end data lifecycles within the enterprise, you will work collaboratively within an established team to drive continuous improvement of our data governance and delivery processes, ensuring robust support for current and new operations.

You will partner closely with data consumers, product owners, engineers, and analysts to proactively elicit clear requirements that can be understood and delivered across a variety of business streams. In addition to enhancing our current data capabilities, you will actively seek opportunities to support the onboarding of solutions into our new data platform, which is presently under development.

Success in this role will require you to work hand-in-hand with both Business stakeholders and agile teams, championing data transformation initiatives that focus on technology modernisation, strengthened data governance, and fostering enterprise-wide data democracy. You’ll identify business needs, communicate insights, and provide guidance to ensure the successful implementation and transition of data solutions.

Role Requirements

• Collaborate across consumers, operations and technology to elicit, document and communicate business requirements
• Translate complex problems into clear, outcome-focused user stories
• Ensure alignment with data governance, compliance, and audit expectations
• Facilitate impact assessments and support data lineage documentation
• Partner with UX designers to shape user-centric solutions
• Support training and onboarding activities related to data processes and tools

Experience Required

• Strong understanding of modern data platforms and their application withing a corporate enterprise
• Knowledge of data governance frameworks, e.g. DCAM and practical application to across data management, quality, usage, classification, and architecture
• Data engineering concepts such as ETL/ELT pipelines and structured data management
• Familiarity with data modernisation strategies
• An awareness of metadata cataloging tools and their operational usage
• Financial services experience and knowledge of asset management data domains such as holdings, transactions, pricing and reference data
• An appreciation for working within an agile mindset in a regulated environment
• Experience working across multiple squads and coordinating with UX designers, data engineers, and governance leads
• Strong requirement elicitation and stakeholder engagement skills
• Ability to write clear outcomes and user stories for agile delivery
• Experience collaborating with UX designers to align business needs with user experience
• Proficiency in documenting data lineage and business rules
• Skilled working to understand and explain complex SQL queries
• Capability to perform impact assessments across systems and processes
• Competence in supporting training and knowledge transfer activities

Insight is committed to being an inclusive employer and encourages applications from all suitably qualified applicants irrespective of background, circumstances, age, disability, gender identity, ethnicity, religion or belief and sexual orientation. If you are a candidate with a disability, or are assisting a candidate with a disability, and require an accommodation to apply for one of our jobs, please email us at [email protected]

About Insight Investment

Insight Investment is a leading asset manager focused on designing investment solutions to meet its clients’ needs. Founded in 2002, Insight’s collaborative approach has delivered both investment performance and growth in assets under management. Insight manages assets across its core liability-driven investment, risk management, full-spectrum fixed income, currency and absolute return capabilities.

Insight has a global network of operations in the UK, Ireland, Germany, US, Japan and Australia. More information about Insight Investment can be found at: www.insightinvestment.com