Principal Business Analyst - Data Technology Platforms

We are looking for a data focused Principal Business Analyst to join the Data Technology Platforms Team within Asset Management Platform. The team owns the data platform at Schroders and supports data delivery for all business units including Public and Private Assets, Client, Corporate and Operations and Wealth Management. This includes a broad range of data applications from Reference Data Masters, Operational Data Stores to Analytics and AI applications.

We need a business analyst who also knows their way around a database, who understands the business use of data, the importance of governance and standards, balanced against constant demand for delivery. They must have detailed knowledge of CRM systems, Client Lifecycle and data and analytics associated with these processes.

What you’ll do:

• Represent the Data Technology Platforms team across a portfolio of concurrent initiatives, ensuring delivery of data solutions that provide clear business outcomes.
• Independently lead discovery and requirement elicitation with business stakeholders; facilitate workshops, challenge assumptions, resolve ambiguity, and drive timely decisions.
• Translate business needs into clear, testable specifications, including epics/user stories, acceptance criteria, process flows, data definitions, source-to-target mappings, and data quality/control requirements.
• Partner with data engineers, architects, QA, and support teams to shape solution options, assess feasibility, and ensure end-to-end traceability from requirements through to implementation.
• Use SQL to investigate, profile, and validate data in SQL Server and Snowflake, supporting impact analysis, reconciliation, defect triage, and UAT readiness.
• Support testing and release activities end-to-end: defining test scenarios, coordinating UAT, validating outcomes (including data reconciliation), managing defects, and confirming production readiness.
• Own change through to production, including cutover planning inputs, release notes, operational handover to first-line support, and early-life support coordination.
• Manage priorities across multiple projects, proactively surfacing risks, dependencies, and delivery trade-offs.

The knowledge, experience, and qualifications you need:

• Proven experience as a Business Analyst delivering data and/or technology change through the full SDLC in a regulated environment.
• Strong SQL querying skills (analysis, reconciliation, data validation) with experience working with SQL Server and Snowflake (or equivalent modern cloud data warehouse plus willingness to ramp up quickly).
• Strong requirements engineering capability: elicitation, structured documentation, acceptance criteria, traceability, and stakeholder sign-off.
• Ability to challenge requirements and proposed solutions constructively, balancing short-term delivery with strategic alignment.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience working with senior business and technology stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; comfortable working with large, complex datasets.
• Strong delivery discipline: able to manage multiple workstreams, maintain momentum, and coordinate across teams.

The knowledge, experience, and qualifications that will help:

• Deep understanding of client onboarding, client servicing and client lifecycle management processes.
• Experience working with Salesforce, including customer or client data, workflows, reporting and integrations.
• Strong knowledge of CRM operating models, including client, prospect, intermediary and relationship-manager data.
• Understanding of client, contact, account, relationship, hierarchy and interaction data, including how these entities are linked and maintained.
• Experience delivering client lifecycle analytics, such as onboarding progress, client engagement, pipeline conversion, retention and servicing activity.
• Strong awareness of CRM data quality, ownership, duplication, standardisation, lineage and governance.
• Own and articulate the product vision and roadmap for Client/CRM data capabilities, aligned to business and client outcomes.
• Experience working with marketing data and campaign processes, including audience segmentation, campaign execution, engagement tracking, lead management and response analysis.
• Experience in associated Investment Management data domains (e.g., holdings/positions, transactions, pricing, reference data, benchmarks, performance, risk, sustainability).
• Familiarity with data platform concepts such as batch/stream processing, orchestration patterns, data lineage/metadata, and data quality monitoring.
• Experience working in Agile or hybrid delivery models (backlog refinement, sprint ceremonies, defining “definition of ready/done”).
• Exposure to production support models, operational readiness, and support handover for data services.

What you’ll be like:

• A team-oriented individual.
• Flexible, self-motivated, enthusiastic, and willing to learn.
• A critical thinker who’s able to look at things from different angles.
• Great at unpicking a problem from start to end, owning and delivering the solution.
• Able to work under pressure, on several priorities at once.
• Great at working with other people, sharing, and communicating decisions but can also work without supervision.
• Keen to improve what we do for our clients.

We recognise potential, whoever you are: Our purpose is to deliver excellent investment performance to clients through active management. We believe diverse perspectives and an inclusive culture help us make better decisions and achieve better outcomes for our clients. That's why inclusion is a strategic priority for us, and we are an equal opportunities employer. You are welcome here, regardless of your age, disability, gender identity, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, socio-economic background, or any other protected characteristic. We will consider flexible working arrangements for all roles and provide reasonable accommodations to support applicants and employees, including those with neurodiversity, disability, or physical and mental health needs.