Business Analyst (Data Governance) - Perm role - Global company - Central London

Salary: £64K base + benefits

Hybrid: 3 days a week of travel to the office in Central London

We are hiring a Business Analyst - Data Governance and Microsoft Purview to work with business stakeholders, data owners, data stewards, and technology teams to capture requirements, map processes, document data definitions, and support the delivery of practical governance improvements using Microsoft Purview where appropriate to create measurable business value.

This is a hands-on business analysis role with a strong focus on data governance and Microsoft Purview: you will help define ways of working, document current and future state processes, support data quality and ownership initiatives, and ensure business requirements are clearly translated into deliverable actions across cataloguing, glossary, lineage, classification, and data quality use cases.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Work with business stakeholders, data owners, data stewards, and technical teams to gather, analyse, and document requirements for data governance initiatives
• Document current and future state business processes, data flows, roles, responsibilities, and governance controls
• Support the definition and adoption of data ownership, stewardship, data quality, metadata management, and data issue management processes
• Support the configuration, adoption, and business use of Microsoft Purview capabilities such as the data catalogue, business glossary, collections, classifications, lineage, and data quality features
• Translate business needs into clear functional requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and prioritised backlogs
• Facilitate workshops, interviews, and playback sessions to align stakeholders and validate requirements, processes, and governance outcomes
• Create and maintain documentation, including business requirements, process maps, data dictionaries, glossaries, RAID logs, and decision records
• Use SQL, reporting tools, or data profiling outputs to support data analysis, data quality investigation, and evidence-based recommendations
• Collaborate with data engineering, analytics, architecture, security, and compliance teams to ensure governance requirements are embedded into solution design
• Support data quality measurement, root cause analysis, remediation planning, and ongoing monitoring of agreed governance metrics
• Contribute to the development of business glossaries, critical data element definitions, policies, standards, and operating procedures
• Work with stakeholders to define Microsoft Purview glossary terms, ownership models, metadata standards, and catalogue enrichment requirements that improve data discoverability and trust
• Provide clear communication on progress, risks, dependencies, and decisions to project teams and senior stakeholders