About the Role
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.
Responsibilities
- 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.
- Capture and define requirements with a data architecture mindset, ensuring solutions are scalable, consistent, and fit for purpose.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Requirements
- 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.
- 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.
Skills
- Data Architecture
- Data Warehousing
- Data Governance
- Data Quality
- Business Analysis
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Engagement
- SQL
- Power BI
- SSRS
- Visio
- Azure DevOps
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Miro
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior
Benefits
- 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days
- Adoption and fertility leave
- Generous enhanced parental leave
- Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents
- Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary
- Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary
- Optical benefits
- 15% combined employee/employer contributions to savings & retirement
- 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
About the Company
- A well established reinsurance organisation is investing in its permanent internal data capability to meet growing demand across underwriting, operations, and finance.
- 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.
- 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 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.
- Pacific Life Re Values
- At Pacific Life Re, our vision is to bring an innovative and dynamic approach to the marketplace.
- Our global team is not afraid to disrupt and challenge industry thinking to provide the best life and health reinsurance services possible.
- Working in some of the most complex and fast-moving markets has taught us that knowledge and innovation go hand in hand.
- Today, we are continuing our rapid growth internationally with offices across Europe, Asia, North America, Australia, and Bermuda.
- With over 1000 employees across the globe, we take pride in our inclusive culture, underpinned by our values and behaviours, providing an environment where everyone can grow and develop.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.
