Contract Data Governance Business Analyst - Social Housing You will support a focused data governance initiative within a social housing environment. You will analyse housing-specific data entities and map how data is created, read, updated and deleted across key systems, processes and user groups. You will work closely with data, technology and business stakeholders to improve data ownership, lineage, quality controls and lifecycle management across core operational platforms.
You will:- 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.
Rate: 500 per day, subject to experience Outside IR35, subject to CEST determination
Contract: Initial 3 months
Location: Remote-first / hybrid, with occasional face-to-face collaboration
Start: ASAP
You will need- 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.
- An understanding of relational databases, schemas or SQL would be advantageous.
This role will suit a hands-on contractor who can quickly understand a complex housing systems landscape, work independently and deliver practical data governance outputs with minimal hand-holding.
To apply, send your cv to Simon at (url removed)
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