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<p><strong>Job Category:</strong> Technical Analyst</p>
<p><strong>Job Type:</strong> 3 Days at Client Location</p>
<p><strong>Job Location:</strong> London</p>
<h2><strong>Role Description</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>The Technical Analyst will support a Data Governance &amp; Controls remediation program for a top-tier banking client, aligned to an ECB Remediation operating model.</li>
<li>Support remediation stand-up and ways of working (pods, intake, tooling), helping establish delivery routines, governance, and reporting.</li>
<li>Responsible for translating regulatory and governance policies (GDPR, CCPA, HIPAA, Basel, internal security standards) into clear technical requirements and control specifications.</li>
<li>Work with Legal, Compliance, Security, Data Platform, and IT teams to define control requirements, maintain remediation backlogs, and track closure.</li>
<li>Contribute to and maintain the controls gap assessment, including prioritization, ownership tracking, and closure evidence.</li>
<li>Identify data sourcing gaps, coordinate root-cause analysis with SMEs, and document and track the agreed closure plan.</li>
<li>Support delivery of manual controls automation waves, ensuring requirements, testing, sign-offs, and operational readiness are complete.</li>
<li>Ensure catalogue lineage is populated and traceability coverage is measurable and reported for priority data domains and reporting chains.</li>
<li>Engage in process mapping, control specification (decision tables, data contracts, rules), and validating outcomes through UAT and audit documentation.</li>
<li>Participate from discovery workshops through implementation and continuous improvement.
Ensure traceability from policy control implementation test evidence- audit-ready documentation pack.</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Location</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>The role supports one of our top-tier banking clients in London (Canary Wharf) and requires a minimum of three days on-site presence.</li>
<li>This is a permanent position based in the UK. We will only consider applicants who are eligible to work in the UK. For this role we do NOT offer visa sponsorship.</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Core Skills &amp; Experience</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in data governance, compliance, controls, remediation, or automation programs (preferably in financial services).</li>
<li>Strong proficiency in Python for data engineering and automation.</li>
<li>Hands-on experience with PySpark and Spark SQL in production environments.</li>
<li>Solid knowledge of Hive, Impala, HDFS, and Parquet.</li>
<li>Advanced SQL skills; experience with Oracle databases.</li>
<li>Experience designing and supporting ETL/ELT pipelines and data quality frameworks (rules, thresholds, exception handling).</li>
<li>Working knowledge of Autosys and Apache Airflow (monitoring schedules, reruns, failure triage).</li>
<li>Experience with CI/CD and release controls (Git, Harness, UrbanCode Deploy (UCD), Red Hat OpenShift or equivalent).</li>
<li>Familiarity with AWS S3 for large-scale data storage and dataset movement patterns.</li>
<li>Experience supporting Tableau dashboards (data validation, extract refresh checks, reconciliation to source).</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Nice-to-Have</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Experience in regulated or enterprise data environments (banking, compliance).</li>
<li>Exposure to data governance, lineage, controls frameworks, and audit evidence standards.</li>
<li>Experience working in factory-style remediation models (intake, triage, prioritization, wave planning, pod execution, reporting).</li>
<li>Experience working in Agile/Scrum delivery models.</li>
<li>Knowledge of monitoring and alerting tools for data pipelines and batch operations.</li>
</ul>
<h2><strong>Main Tasks and Responsibilities</strong></h2>
<ul>
<li>Support remediation stand-up: pods structure, intake process, tooling setup, and delivery routines.</li>
<li>Conduct discovery workshops to define scope, policies, control expectations, and remediation edge cases.</li>
<li>Drive delivery of quick-win remediation waves, including triage, tracking, and closure evidence capture.</li>
<li>Produce control specifications and delivery artefacts (decision tables, data contracts, user stories, acceptance criteria, test cases).</li>
<li>Maintain remediation backlogs (policy/control requirements) and track lifecycle changes, ownership, and closures.</li>
<li>Support delivery and reporting of the controls gap assessment (prioritization, dependencies, closure tracking).</li>
<li>Identify data sourcing gaps, coordinate SME working sessions, and document and track agreed closure plans.</li>
<li>Support manual controls automation waves by validating requirements, coordinating testing, and ensuring sign-off readiness.</li>
<li>Ensure catalogue lineage is populated and traceability coverage is measurable and reported.</li>
<li>Lead/support UAT for codified controls; validate automation outcomes and manage defect triage.</li>
<li>Produce an audit-ready documentation pack including decision logs, test packs, control mappings, lineage/traceability evidence, and approvals.</li>
<li>Partner with developers to ensure policy intent is preserved in implementation and outcomes are explainable.</li>
</ul>


Technical Analyst – Data Governance, Controls & Traceability

Technical Analyst – Data Governance, Controls & Traceability

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