Lead Data Analyst

Join our team as a Lead Data Analyst, where you will play a key role in enabling data-driven transformation across the bank. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in Agile analysis, stakeholder engagement and banking products, with the ability to translate complex business needs into scalable data solutions, uncover valuable insights through advanced analytics, and deliver meaningful outcomes through effective collaboration with business, technology and product teams.

To be successful as a Lead Data Analyst you must have the following essential skills:

• Strong Requirements Engineering & Agile Analysis:
  Eliciting, validating and documenting BRDs/FRDs/user stories, Backlog refinement, feature mapping, supporting testing, Working within Agile frameworks
• Domain Expertise in any banking stack:
  Core Banking, Onboarding, Payments, FX, Liquidity and Cash Management etc. Having worked in a data mesh world or understanding concepts around data as a product.
• Agile Ceremonies & SAFe Program Events:
  Strong proficiency in writing epics, capabilities, features, and user stories with acceptance criteria that meet Definition of Ready/Definition of Done.

Some other highly valued skills may include:

• Exposure to Broader Banking Product Stacks:
  Payments domain deep‑dive, Core banking systems, ETL / reporting flows, Integration with middleware (Kafka, MQ, file‑based patterns)
• Technical Awareness & Analytical Tools: SQL/data interpretation, Understanding of data models, interfaces and system behaviour, Ability to support issue triage (defects, test cycles)
• Risk Management & Regulatory Awareness:
  Risk & Controls, Regulatory Reporting, Liquidity Risk

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job-specific technical skills.

This role is located in our Glasgow office.

To enable data-driven strategic and operational decision making through extracting actionable insights from large datasets, performing statistical and advanced analytics to uncover trends and patterns, and presenting findings through clear visualisations and reports.

• Investigation and analysis of data issues related to quality, lineage, controls, and authoritative source identification, documenting data sources, methodologies, and quality findings with recommendations for improvement
• Designing and building data pipelines to automate data movement and processing.
• Apply advanced analytical techniques to large datasets to uncover trends and correlations, develop validated logical data models, and translate insights into actionable business recommendations that drive operational and process improvements, leveraging machine learning/AI.
• Through data-driven analysis, translate analytical findings into actionable business recommendations, identifying opportunities for operational and process improvements.
• Design and create interactive dashboards and visual reports using applicable tools and automate reporting processes for regular and ad-hoc stakeholder needs.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures..
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