Senior Technical Business Analyst – Data

Job Title

Senior Technical Business Analyst – Data

Job Description

This is a senior, high-impact Business Analysis role for someone who combines structured BA capability with strong technical understanding of enterprise data delivery. You will lead complex data requirements from discovery through delivery, produce clear specifications for data integrations and semantic models, and influence senior stakeholders on the right approach.

This is not a reporting, dashboard-development or pure Data Analyst position. The successful candidate will be a Business Analyst first, with the technical credibility to work effectively with Data Architecture and Engineering teams.

What you’ll be doing

Lead business analysis for data delivery:

• Lead the initiation, discovery, requirements definition and delivery of data-focused initiatives across underwriting, operations and finance.
• Apply a structured Business Analysis approach across the full software development lifecycle, maintaining traceability from business need through to delivered outcome.
• Take ownership of complex workstreams and smaller data projects, providing direction to colleagues and reducing reliance on senior leaders for day-to-day stakeholder management.
• Contribute to the evolution of BA standards, templates, quality controls and ways of working across the data function.

Specify enterprise data solutions:

• Produce clear, engineering-ready specifications for data integrations, including source and target structures, mappings, transformation and business rules, validation, data-quality controls, dependencies, exception handling and acceptance criteria.
• Define requirements for semantic models, data warehouse solutions and analytical data platforms, distinguishing between specifying a solution and building it directly.
• Use data flows, lineage, source-to-target mappings, reporting specifications and conceptual or logical data models to remove ambiguity and support scalable delivery.
• Work with Data Architecture and Engineering teams to clarify requirements, challenge assumptions and maintain shared understanding throughout delivery.

Influence stakeholders and shape delivery:

• Lead workshops and conversations with senior business and technical stakeholders, including where priorities, viewpoints or levels of technical understanding differ.
• Translate complex data concepts into concise, practical recommendations that enable stakeholders to understand and support the proposed approach.
• Build commitment to delivery plans and technical direction, escalating only where appropriate.
• Support adoption and transition into business as usual, ensuring the solution addresses the original business need.

Embed governance and data quality:

• Embed data ownership, definitions, standards, controls and quality requirements into specifications and delivery.
• Support data-quality assessment, issue definition, remediation requirements and agreement of measurable acceptance criteria.
• Ensure delivery aligns with enterprise data strategy, governance expectations and the organisation’s regulated operating environment.

What success looks like:

• Engineering teams receive sufficiently detailed, unambiguous specifications to design and build integrations and data products effectively.
• Senior stakeholders understand the proposed approach, trade-offs and implications and are confident supporting the delivery plan.
• Business needs remain traceable from discovery through requirements, build, validation and adoption.
• The permanent team develops stronger technical BA capability, consistent standards and less dependency on contractors or senior leaders.
• Data governance and quality are built into delivery rather than addressed after implementation.

What we’re looking for

Essential experience:

• Proven experience as a Senior Business Analyst or Senior Technical Business Analyst delivering data-centric initiatives end to end.
• Demonstrable experience producing specifications for enterprise data integrations, data warehouses or semantic models for delivery by Engineering teams.
• Strong understanding of the software development lifecycle and how requirements move from discovery through build, testing, acceptance and adoption.
• Practical understanding of data structures, mappings, transformation rules, data quality, lineage and conceptual or logical data modelling.
• Evidence of influencing senior stakeholders and translating technical data concepts for non-technical audiences.
• Ability to lead work independently, structure ambiguous problems and provide direction within a multidisciplinary team.

Desirable experience:

• Experience in insurance, reinsurance, financial services or financial reporting environments.
• Experience working with large-scale cloud data platforms or enterprise data warehouses.
• An engineering or technical delivery background combined with substantial Business Analysis and stakeholder-facing experience.
• Exposure to SQL, Power BI, SSRS or similar technologies sufficient to understand and challenge data requirements; hands-on development is not the core of the role.
• Familiarity with tools such as Azure DevOps, JIRA, Confluence, Visio or Miro.

Why join?

• Join a growing data function at a point where you can directly shape standards, delivery approaches and permanent capability.
• Take visible ownership of complex data change rather than operating as one BA within a large, established BA population.
• Work across business stakeholders, Data Architecture and Engineering, with the opportunity to progress into broader technical or team leadership.

Working For Pacific Life Re

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. Of course, we take our work seriously and we know our team can operate under great pressure. 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 have a wide range of employee benefits and 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.

Benefits (Only for Permanent and Fixed Term Employees)

Leave

• 25 days of annual leave with option to buy/sell more days 

• Adoption and fertility leave 

• Generous enhanced parental leave 

Healthcare

• Comprehensive private insurance coverage for employee and dependents

• Group Life Insurance coverage of 9x basic annual salary and Group Income Protection up to 75% of basic annual salary 

• Optical benefits 

Savings & Retirement

• 15% combined employee/employer contributions 

Wellness

• 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 

You Can Be Who You Are

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.

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