Job Description
Senior Business Data Analyst (Migrations)
Job Title: Senior Business Data Analyst (Migrations)
Contract Type: Permanent
Location: Edinburgh or Glasgow or Alderley Park (Wilmslow)
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based
We have a fantastic opportunity for an experienced Senior Business Data Analyst to join our Group Data and AI Office (GDAIO) Team at Royal London. This Senior Business Data Analyst position is aimed at candidates who bring significant experience from financial services or similarly complex regulated environments, and who can combine strong data analysis capability with confident stakeholder engagement, delivery focus and commercial judgement.
The Senior Business Data Analyst will play a key role in shaping high-quality analysis across complex data landscapes. You will support value-chain mapping of data, interpret system performance metrics, agile team performance data and financial data, and help provide check and challenge on GDAIO involvement in key initiatives based on business value and return on investment. The role is particularly suited to someone who understands the realities of delivering data change in a financial services setting, including regulatory expectations, legacy platforms, operational risk and the need for clear, evidence-based recommendations.
Working closely with Data Engineering teams, Business SMEs, Business Sponsors and Senior Leadership, the Senior Business Data Analyst will analyse complex data ecosystems, translate findings into practical recommendations with senior data leaders, and support project teams to align delivery with organisational objectives. This role combines hands-on analysis with collaborative leadership, particularly during complex discovery, impact assessment, migration, data sourcing or project definition phases.
About the role:
- Lead and shape complex data analysis across financial services change initiatives, developing clear analytical approaches that support business, customer and regulatory outcomes
- Support the optimisation and phasing of data sourcing to the Enterprise Data Model
- Evaluate important business processes and identify data-driven improvement opportunities
- Develop thoughtful analytical solutions to help address complex business challenges
- Provide clear insights to cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders based on advanced data analysis
- Help ensure analytical outputs align with business strategies and regulatory requirements
- Support data quality assessments, impact assessments, migrations and improvement initiatives, helping teams understand source-to-target data impacts, risks and dependencies
- Coordinate the delivery of high-impact analytical projects, helping ensure timely completion and effective use of resources
- Role model Royal London values across the GDAIO and broader organisation
- Support, coach and provide technical guidance to Business Data Analysts, helping raise standards of analysis, documentation and delivery across the team
- Encourage the use of data-driven decision-making practices across the organisation
- Contribute to initiatives that improve data literacy and analytical capability across business areas
About you:
- Significant experience as a Business Data Analyst, Data Analyst or similar role within financial services or another highly regulated environment, ideally gained over 10+ years
- Experience delivering complex analytical projects with multiple stakeholders, systems and interdependencies; migration, platform transformation or legacy system experience would be particularly valuable
- Knowledge of Agile ways of working and how they can support analytical delivery
- Good understanding of data lifecycle management and governance
- Practical experience with data visualisation tools, SQL, cloud-based data platforms, or statistical software
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn complex data insights into clear business recommendations
- Good organisational skills, including the ability to balance priorities and support effective delivery
- Collaborative stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build effective relationships across different teams and levels of the organisation
- Desirable: experience coaching, mentoring or leading other analysts, either through formal people leadership or technical delivery leadership
We are particularly interested in hearing from experienced financial services data professionals who can bring depth, judgement and delivery confidence to a senior role. If you have strong analytical experience and are excited by the opportunity to influence complex data change at Royal London, we’d love to hear from you. People leadership, coaching experience and migration experience are desirable, but not essential.
About Royal London
We’re the UK’s largest mutual life, pensions and investment company, offering protection, long-term savings and asset management products and services.
Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve.
We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.
Inclusion, diversity and belonging
We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds, perspectives and experiences across Royal London. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds and are committed to creating a workplace where everyone can feel included, respected and able to thrive.