Contract Data Governance Business Analyst

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Recent social housing experience
• Strong data-focused business analysis experience
• Experience of data governance, data quality, data migration, MDM or data lifecycle projects
• Proven experience producing CRUD matrices, data flow diagrams and data mapping documentation
• Understanding of housing data across areas such as tenants, properties, assets, repairs, compliance, tenancy management or income
• Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation skills
• Confidence working with Excel, mapping tools and structured datasets
• Understanding of relational databases, schemas or SQL is advantageous

Responsibilities

• Support a focused data governance initiative within a social housing environment
• Analyse housing-specific data entities and map how data is created, read, updated and deleted across key systems, processes and user groups
• Work closely with data, technology and business stakeholders to improve data ownership, lineage, quality controls and lifecycle management across core operational platforms
• Produce a CRUD matrix across key housing data entities, including tenants, properties, assets, tenancies, repairs, compliance, arrears and contacts
• Map data entities against core systems, integrations, processes and user roles
• Identify data ownership, stewardship responsibilities, lineage and lifecycle controls
• Highlight data quality issues, duplication, manual re-keying, unclear ownership and control gaps
• Support the development of data governance artefacts, including data dictionaries, quality rules and metadata documentation
• Facilitate workshops with business, technical and operational stakeholders
• Translate complex data flows into clear, business-facing documentation
• Deliver structured outputs quickly

Technologies

• Excel
• Flow
• Support
• Matrix
• SQL

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We are offering an initial 3-month contract for a Data Governance Business Analyst within a social housing environment. The role is remote-first/hybrid with occasional face-to-face collaboration, paid at up to £500 per day subject to experience and Outside IR35 subject to CEST determination, with an ASAP start. This hands-on contract is suited to someone who can quickly understand a complex housing systems landscape, work independently, and deliver practical data governance outputs with minimal hand-holding.

last updated 25 week of 2026