ECB Data Analyst* (Contract)

Duration: 6 Months (Possibility for extension)

Location: London/Hybrid (3 days per week on site)

Rate: A highly competitive Umbrella Day Rate is available for suitable candidates

Role Profile

The External Data Analyst will support the ECB Onboarding Programme by translating business and regulatory requirements into clear external data needs and mapping these to existing datasets, systems, and vendor sources.

The role will work closely with business stakeholders, Technology, Data Management, Legal, and Procurement to identify where current external data provision does not meet requirements, assess vendor and dataset gaps, and drive the delivery of remediation actions or new data sourcing.

The analyst will ensure that all required data is accurately identified, traceable, contractually compliant, and available to regulatory submissions, controls, and programme milestones.

Key Accountabilities:

Translate business and regulatory requirements into external data specifications, mapping them to existing and new datasets, systems, and vendor sources to identify gaps. Work collaboratively with Data and Technology teams to define ingestion, integration, storage, and metadata needs for external data supporting ECB onboarding. Assess the suitability and coverage of current vendor datasets, identifying data availability, completeness, and quality gaps that may impact ECB reporting or controls. Work with Data Quality and Data Governance teams to validate data standards, lineage, definitions, and controls, ensuring alignment with ECB expectations. Ensure all ingestion flows and architectural designs comply with vendor licensing, including usage rights, redistribution restrictions, and entitlement rules. Coordinate with Legal, Procurement to validate licensing requirements, address contractual gaps, and support sourcing of additional datasets when needed. Document source‑to‑target mappings, lineage, licensing rules, and ingestion patterns to support ECB traceability, governance artefacts, and internal audit readiness. Track and deliver remediation actions for data, architectural, quality, or licensing gaps, providing clear reporting of risks, issues, and dependencies to ECB programme governance.

Skills & Experience:

Experience translating regulatory or business requirements into clear data specifications and mappings. Strong understanding of external data from key financial vendors (Bloomberg, Refinitiv, S&P, Moody's, Fitch). Proven ability to work with Data and Technology teams to understand requirements for ingestion, integration, and system flows. Knowledge of data licensing, usage rights, entitlement models, and redistribution constraints. Experience running data sourcing exercises - identifying and evaluating vendors. Experience collaborating with Data Governance teams on lineage, metadata, controls, and standards. Strong documentation skills, including mapping, lineage, and technical requirement artefacts. Effective stakeholder management, working with Technology, Business SMEs, Legal, Procurement Experience with regulatory onboarding programmes or data remediation. Familiarity with data governance frameworks (e.g., BCBS 239, EDM Council standards). Exposure to vendor contract review, sourcing processes, and commercial/licensing negotiations. Awareness of cloud data architecture concepts and licensing implications (Azure, AWS). Experience with data quality tooling or profiling methods. Technical literacy such as basic ability to interpret vendor data schemas. Knowledge of ESG specific external data sources

Candidates will need to show evidence of the above in their CV in order to be considered.

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We will respond to all successful applicants ASAP however, please be advised that we will always look to contact you further from this time should we need further applicants or if other opportunities arise relevant to your skillset.

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