Senior Data Requirements Analyst
Senior Data Requirements Analyst
Role: Senior Data Requirements & Governance Analyst Purpose: Support the onsite Business Data Requirements & Governance Lead across data-demand intake, requirements documentation, governance operations, data quality, critical data, ownership, issue management, and traceability.
Key responsibilities:- Capture and maintain business data requirements across active initiatives.- Translate use cases into required data attributes, definitions, timing, granularity, history, and acceptance criteria.- Maintain requirements traceability from business need through delivery and testing.- Maintain the data-demand / requirements register.- Document assumptions, dependencies, open questions, and decisions.- Support source mapping and authoritative-source analysis.- Identify duplicate or conflicting requirements.- Support CDE assessments and maintain critical-data inventories.- Maintain data-owner, steward, and source-owner mappings.- Document DQ expectations and fitness-for-purpose requirements.- Track data issues, remediation, compensating controls, evidence, and closure status.- Support standards/framework gap assessments.- Maintain metadata, lineage, and governance evidence where applicable.- Prepare governance and requirements status reporting.- Support Jira / Confluence / other operating tools.- Escalate unresolved questions rather than making risk or ownership decisions independently. Required profile:- 6–10+ years in data requirements, data governance, data quality, data management, or business analysis.- Strong data concepts.- Strong requirements traceability.- Experience with CDEs, DQ, metadata, lineage, ownership/stewardship.- Regulated-industry experience strongly preferred.- Financial Crimes / Risk / Compliance experience.- Strong documentation and analytical discipline.