Principal Business Analyst – Data Platforms
Location: London (Hybrid)
Engagement: Contract (Inside IR35) / Fixed-Term Employment
Start: ASAP
UST is seeking a Principal Business Analyst to join a strategic Data Technology Platforms Team supporting enterprise-wide data initiatives across Asset Management, Operations, Client Services, Wealth Management, Analytics, and AI solutions.
This role is ideal for a senior Business Analyst with a strong data background who can bridge business and technology teams, drive requirements, and deliver high-quality data solutions within a complex, regulated environment. Investment or Asset Management experience is highly desirable, particularly across investment data domains.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead requirements discovery, stakeholder workshops, and business analysis activities across multiple data initiatives.
- Translate business needs into clear user stories, process flows, data definitions, source-to-target mappings, and acceptance criteria.
- Partner with architects, data engineers, QA, and delivery teams to design and deliver scalable data solutions.
- Use SQL to analyse, validate, reconcile, and investigate complex datasets.
- Support end-to-end delivery including testing, UAT, defect management, release readiness, and production deployment.
- Manage priorities, risks, dependencies, and delivery outcomes across concurrent projects.
What We’re Looking For:
- Proven experience as a Business Analyst delivering data and technology change within a regulated environment.
- Strong SQL skills with hands‑on experience in data analysis, validation, reconciliation, and impact assessment.
- Experience working with SQL Server, Snowflake, or similar cloud data platforms.
- Strong requirements elicitation, documentation, stakeholder management, and SDLC delivery experience.
- Ability to challenge assumptions, influence stakeholders, and drive decision‑making.
- Excellent communication, analytical, and problem‑solving skills.
Highly Desirable Domain Expertise:
Experience within Investment Management, Asset Management, Wealth Management, or Financial Services, including exposure to:
- Holdings & Positions
- Transactions & Pricing
- Reference Data
- Corporate Actions & Benchmarks
- Performance & Risk Data
- ESG Data
- Data governance, data quality, lineage, and metadata management.
- Modern data platforms, cloud data warehousing, and data architecture concepts.
- Agile or hybrid delivery methodologies.
If you’re a data‑focused Business Analyst with strong stakeholder management skills and Investment Management domain expertise, we’d love to hear from you!
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