Senior Investment Data Analyst

Location: Greater London

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** Senior Investment Data Analyst*
* ** Business Area:
Operations*
* ** Place of Work:
London*
* ** Contract Type:
Fixed Term Contract**  |  |  | | --- | --- | | |  | | --- | |  | |      When you join USS, the size and scale of our pension scheme means you will have numerous opportunities to learn and develop your career. Given our size you'll have real autonomy and influence as you collaborate closely with a wide-ranging team of experts.

** About the role
** In your role as Senior Investment Data Analyst you will make a meaningful and valued contribution from the outset. This role will provide a great opportunity to be responsible for establishing, leading, and delivering high-quality data analysis across investment data. The role combines hands-on analytical expertise with the opportunity to shape, support, and lead the advancement of data capabilities across the organisation.
You will play a key role in the technology and data transformation agenda, embedding new and enhanced data analysis capabilities, driving improved data usage, and supporting the organisation’s strategic data objectives  
** What you will be doing
** As a trusted part of the Operations team you will be responsible for:

• Shape and establish data analysis capabilities, formalising the activities within the Data Oversight team and the Data Strategy & Architecture Programme.  
• Lead the in-scope data analysis, managing priorities in conjunction with the Programme and Business-As-Usual data initiatives.  
• Contribute to programme delivery, particularly during implementation stages, helping to analyse, build, validate, and structure data in platforms such as an enterprise data lakehouse.  
• Translate business requirements into data requirements, and technical specifications, and support the testing of deployments within the data lakehouse.  
• Support the implementation of mastering systems, such as security master platforms and Investment Books of Records (IBOR), contributing to configuration, data model alignment, and integration into the wider architecture.  
• Evaluate market data inputs and usage across asset classes, including reference data, pricing, indices, to ensure completeness, quality, and efficient usage across the business, and where required, work with developers to integrate them into new platforms as part of the transition from legacy systems.  
• Support the migration of data from current to the target state architecture and operating model, performing data analysis, mapping back-to-front data sources, creating data flow diagrams and building out the data catalogue.  
• Conduct detailed market data optimisation activities, reviewing data usage patterns, identifying redundancies, and recommending data sets that can be rationalised or replaced.  
• Interrogate large amounts of data, assessing current-state vs. target-state data models, identifying gaps or discrepancies and collaborating with technology teams to resolve structural and quality differences.  
• Support members of the Data Oversight team as required, contributing to data governance, data architecture, data quality and broader data management activities.  
• Build a strong relationship with USS colleagues and develop close working relationships with third party service partners.  
** About you
** We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box, if you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, then please apply, regardless of whether you meet all the requirements outlined in this profile.
To be successful in the role you will have:

• Experience working in Investment Management, with a solid understanding of investment data structures, investment book of records (IBOR) concepts, market data sources and how these are used across front-to-back investment data lifecycle.

• Hands-on experience with data mastering platforms, ideally having worked on the…