Canopius Group
Data Governance Analyst
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Data Governance Analyst
Data Governance Analyst
About the Role
At Canopius, our delivery teams ensure business users can effectively leverage data insights to drive strategic decision-making. Our enterprise Lakehouse platform on Databricks eliminates fragmented, ungoverned silos on legacy technologies, fostering creativity and scalability. We are building a governed, interoperable data estate that empowers self-service for business teams while providing a trusted foundation for advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI—accelerating innovation across our industry.
The Data Governance Analyst supports the establishment and operation of effective data governance across Canopius, ensuring data is well-defined, trusted, controlled, and consistently used enterprise-wide. Partnering with Data Owners, Data Stewards, and governance functions, this role focuses on embedding policies, standards, metadata, lineage, business definitions, and data quality practices across all business domains.
Primarily, the role involves:
- Administering and maintaining the Data Governance toolset, ensuring metadata, business glossary content, data ownership, classifications, and governance artefacts are accurate, complete, and up to date.
- Supporting governance forums, working groups, data issue management, and reporting to help projects and business teams demonstrate compliance with data policies.
- Collaborating with stakeholders to drive a stronger data-led culture and improve the governance of data across the organisation.
The ideal candidate is an analytical, detail-oriented data professional passionate about fostering a stronger data culture and improving governance. You should possess:
- Strong data analysis and Excel skills, with a solid understanding of data governance principles.
- Experience using governance tooling to manage metadata, data quality, business glossaries, and continuous improvement.
- Expertise in insurance data, particularly Lloyd’s market data, would be advantageous.
Responsibilities
Key tasks include, but are not limited to:
- Establish data governance frameworks, including policies, standards, controls, classifications, and operating models across business domains.
- Administer Data Governance toolsets, defining processes to ensure metadata, lineage, and business glossary content remain accurate, complete, and governed.
- Capture, document, and standardise business definitions, key data elements, and data ownership (e.g., glossary, data dictionary).
- Support the Business Glossary application, integrating business feedback to enhance usability, adoption, and alignment with governance requirements.
- Collaborate with Data Owners and Stewards to develop, document, and maintain data standards, classifications, and governance artefacts.
- Monitor compliance with data governance policies, providing subject-matter expertise to business and technical stakeholders.
- Attend governance forums and working groups, driving adoption of data governance practices.
- Promote a data-led culture through training, communication, and engagement on data governance, policies, and roadmaps.
- Publish management information on data governance activity, risks, and outcomes.
- Manage data incidents by capturing, escalating, and resolving issues through governance forums while maintaining the Data Risk Register and incident logs.
- Engage with cross-functional teams (Risk, Information Security, Compliance) to identify, assess, and address data issues.
- Prioritise workload effectively, in line with team, departmental, and business objectives.
- Undertake ad-hoc duties as required.
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Skills & Qualifications
Essential:
- Proven experience implementing data governance frameworks, including controls, workflows, and operating models across business domains.
- Ability to design and embed governance controls (e.g., data quality rules, approvals, stewardship workflows).
- Hands-on experience with data governance tools, including: translating business feedback into product improvements that enhance usability and alignment with business processes.
- Knowledge of data quality frameworks, controls, and dimensions (accuracy, completeness, consistency, timeliness).
- Experience defining and documenting business terms, data definitions, and standards.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, working effectively with Data Owners, Data Stewards, and Data Engineering teams.
- Ability to operate self-relliantly, with ownership of tasks and minimal supervision.
- Expertise translating business requirements into governance artefacts and actionable controls.
- Understanding of regulatory/compliance factors (e.g., handling PII).
- Exceptional time management and attention to detail for managing metadata, documentation, and governance artefacts.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Proficient in Excel and data analysis, with SQL experience advantageous.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
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Advantageous:
- Familiarity with Azure DevOps for issue tracking and workflow.
- Exposure to specialty (re)insurance or Lloyd’s market data, such as bordereaux, delegated authority, underwriting, and claims.
Our Benefits
At Canopius, we prioritise the well-being of every employee, offering a comprehensive benefits package that supports whole-person wellbeing, including:
- Options for hybrid working.
- Competitive base salary.
- Non-contributory pension.
- Discretionary bonus.
- Insurance coverage, including family health and dental cover.
- A dedicated focus on financial, physical, social, and psychological health.
About Canopius
Canopius is a global specialty lines (re)insurer, a leading firm in the Lloyd’s of London insurance market, with offices in the UK, US, Singapore, Australia, and Bermuda.
Our culture encourages employees to bring their whole selves to work, fostering a dynamic, inclusive environment where everyone’s contributions are valued. Our specialised offices in the heart of the City of London offer a hybrid working model, committed to a workplace where employees can thrive.
We are fully committed to equal employment opportunities, emphasising an atmosphere free from discrimination and harassment. Employment decisions are made based on merit alone, irrespective of:
- Age, sex, gender identity
- Ethnicity, disability
- Sexual orientation, socio-economic background
- Religious beliefs, marital status
- Any other protected classification
Canopius recruits and employs people of different backgrounds, encouraging diversity at every level.
Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process and during employment. Please contact us if you require information in an alternate format or other accommodations.
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