Senior Data Business Analyst
Pacific Life · London, United Kingdom · 2mo ago
Job Title
Senior Data Business AnalystJob Description
A well established reinsurance organisation is investing in its permanent internal data capability to meet growing demand across underwriting, operations, and finance. This is a senior, high impact role where you will help shape how data is defined, governed, and used across the enterprise.
You’ll sit at the intersection of business analysis, data architecture, and enterprise change, working closely with senior stakeholders, data architects, and engineering teams to turn complex data challenges into clear, governed, and scalable outcomes.
This role is ideal for a Senior Data Business Analyst who enjoys operating in a structured, regulated environment, influencing how data works at an organisational level rather than delivering reports in isolation.
What you’ll be doing
Leading Data Led Change:
• Lead the initiation, discovery, and delivery of data focused initiatives across multiple business domains.
• Apply structured business analysis and change management approaches within a governance led delivery environment.
• Take ownership of smaller data projects and enhancements from early discovery through to business as usual adoption.
• Contribute to the ongoing evolution of data BA standards, tooling, and ways of working across the organisation.
Data Architecture Aware Business Analysis:
• Capture and define requirements with a data architecture mindset, ensuring solutions are scalable, consistent, and fit for purpose.
• Work confidently with:
o Conceptual, logical, and physical data models
o Data warehousing and analytical data platforms
o The distinction between data dictionaries and data glossaries
o Master data vs reference data
• Define requirements using data flows, lineage, source to target mappings, and reporting specifications.
• Act as a critical bridge between business stakeholders and Data Architecture / Engineering teams, ensuring shared understanding and alignment.
This role contributes to data architecture through high quality requirements, rather than owning solution design.
Data Governance & Data Quality:
• Embed data governance principles into delivery, including data ownership, standards, and controls.
• Support data quality assessments, issue identification, and remediation definition.
• Drive consistent data definitions and usage across domains.
• Ensure delivery aligns with enterprise data strategy and regulatory expectations.
Stakeholder Engagement & Influence:
• Engage with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership.
• Translate complex data concepts into clear, pragmatic recommendations that support decision making.
• Support adoption, change, and transition of data solutions into BAU.
• Act as a trusted advisor on data related decisions across the business.
What success looks like:
In this role, success is defined by:
• Clear, agreed data definitions and specifications that reduce ambiguity across business areas.
• Data governance being embedded into delivery, not treated as an afterthought.
• Improved visibility of data quality issues and agreed remediation approaches.
• Strong relationships between business, data architecture, and engineering teams.
• Stakeholders trusting data outputs and the decisions built on them.
What we’re looking for
Essential experience:
• Proven experience as a Senior Business Analyst delivering data centric initiatives.
• Strong conceptual understanding of data architecture and data warehousing (hands on delivery not required).
• Experience working in structured, governance heavy delivery environments.
• Ability to explain complex data concepts clearly to both technical and non technical audiences.
Desirable experience:
• Insurance experience (London Market desirable but not essential; wider insurance backgrounds welcomed).
• Exposure to SQL, Power BI, SSRS, or similar data and BI technologies.
• Experience partnering closely with Data Architecture teams.
• Familiarity with tools such as Visio, Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, Miro
Working For Pacific Life Re
Every person in our global team is valued for the unique qualities they bring to our business and we seek to build their expertise and support their individual ambitions at every step. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. We work hard and thrive on achievement, but we also know how to have fun and relax too. We regularly host a range of team building days to strengthen our team's connection with each other and reflect on their successes.
Providing employees with a healthy work-life balance is very important to our culture. We have a wide range of employee benefits and we host regular social activities and well being initiatives. We are also committed to supporting our employee's involvement in their communities, by actively fundraising, hosting charity events and overseeing volunteering opportunities.
Benefits (Only for Permanent and Fixed Term Employees)
Leave
25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
Adoption and fertility leave
Generous enhanced parental leave
Healthcare
Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents
Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary and Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary
Optical benefits
Savings & Retirement
15% combined employee/employer contributions
Wellness
Subsidized gym membership
Access to Employee Assistance Program
Cycle to Work and Electric Car Salary Sacrifice Scheme
Time off for volunteering
Charitable matching of employee donations
You Can Be Who You Are
We are committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion that embraces the authenticity of all employees, partners and communities. We support all employees to thrive and achieve their fullest potential.
As part of our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we will provide reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process to ensure equal access to applicants with disabilities. Please contact us about your needs so that we can discuss these with you to make sure that suitable adjustments are made, where possible.
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