Job Post: Business BA Specialist (Data Mapping Contractor)
Role Overview
We are seeking a highly experienced and dedicated Business Analyst Specialist with a focus on Data Mapping and GDPR Compliance to join a strategic programme team within a major telecommunications organization. This contract role is critical in safeguarding personal data and ensuring strict adherence to legal and contractual data-handling obligations within a nationally significant digital infrastructure initiative.
The key purpose of this role is to ensure the programme meets its contractual and regulatory data-handling obligations through the successful delivery of a comprehensive data-mapping and GDPR compliance exercise.
Job Details
Job Title: Business BA Specialist (Data Mapping Contractor)
Reports to (job): Senior Manager Business Programmes
Team: Implementation & PMO
Location: Bristol
Hours: Full-time (37.5 hours)
Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities
The core of this role is to lead the end-to-end data mapping and compliance activity for the programme:
Lead the identification, documentation, and assurance of all personal-data processing across programme systems.
Identify, document, and maintain a complete record of all systems, data sources, and personal-data flows. This includes creating and managing the information asset register and data lineage documentation.
Assess and document data-handling roles and responsibilities (Controller vs Processor), ensuring compliance with UK GDPR and internal data-governance policies.
Coordinate with Enterprise Architecture, Digital, Security, and Legal teams to validate system interfaces, storage, and processing pathways that involve personal data.
Produce essential supporting documentation for assurance, including ROPA (Records of Processing Activities) and DPIAs (Data Protection Impact Assessments).
Conduct gap analyses between current data-handling practices and GDPR requirements, identifying remediation actions and producing clear, evidence-based compliance recommendations.
Lead stakeholder engagement and progress reporting to demonstrate compliance activity and risk mitigation across the programme.
Essential Skills and Experience
Data governance and compliance is required, including the ability to interpret GDPR, UK Data Protection Act, and contractual data-handling obligations. Practical experience preparing and maintaining ROPA, DPIA, and lawful-basis assessments is needed.
Data mapping and lineage documentation proficiency is necessary, including identifying and visualising data flows across complex systems.
Business Analysis (data focus) is key-the ability to translate business and regulatory requirements into structured artefacts and traceable documentation.
Stakeholder management-experienced in working across Legal, Digital, Architecture, and external Authority teams.
Mandatory Experience: Clear evidence of experience as a business analyst supporting successful data governance initiatives is required, preferably in the telecomms sector.
Preferred Experience: Experience of working on complex government led programmes is an advantage.
Randstad Technologies is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.