💸Salary £65,000 to £75,000 per annum (depending on experience). Up to 15% bonus.
📍Location Remote – must be based within the UK. Occasional visits to see the team.
🧠Interview process: Two rounds. 1: Get to know you chat with the Talent Team; 2: Technical competency with the Hiring Lead; 3: Final interview with our CTO
🤝Our Values: Advancing, Come as you are, Zero burnout, We all level up together and Transparency
Learn more about us: YouTube, read our Blogs & understand our values!
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Who Are We?
Advancing Analytics are a market leader in delivering pioneering analytical solutions for customers all over the world. To thrive in today's market, businesses need to implement AI built on a solid, reliable Data Platform, and we are looking for you to help us build it!
Who are we looking for?
We are looking for someone who knows what it means to truly own a system — not just to use it, but to be accountable for its configuration, compliance posture, access controls and lifecycle. You've worked in compliance-requiring environments (pharma, life sciences, finance, or similarly governed industries) and understand what it's like working within governance frameworks such as 27001, SOC 2, SOX, GxP or PCI-DSS. You'll have been through an audit, and been able to demonstrate how your system meets governance, regulatory, or legal requirements.
You thrive on bringing pragmatic structure to complexity and how systems governance can drive business value, enabling rather than hindering. You're equally comfortable enforcing a control and designing the lightweight process that makes it workable in practice. You're the person others come to when they need to know how a system should work — and you can translate that into guardrails that let the business move quickly without creating shadow IT.
By providing ownership of systems from a business perspective, you will be the effective interface between the Tech Enablement Team and wider business stakeholders, ensuring that systems are on-boarded, used, and decommissioned according to our governance and regulatory requirements.
Key Responsibilities:
Own and manage the organisation's core business systems (SharePoint, Miro, HubSpot, PandaDoc and others), including configuration, user life-cycle, integrations and compliance posture
Define and enforce access control policies, role-based permissions and joiner/mover/leaver procedures across all platforms, including conducting periodic access reviews
Develop and operationalise compliance-aligned processes including data retention, GDPR obligations and audit-readiness activities
Build and maintain standard operating procedures for system lifecycle events (new system onboarding, configuration changes, project creation, team changes, leavers, etc.)
Ensure systems governance and ownership processes across the organisation are forward-compatible with future ISO 27001 and SOC 2 compliance efforts
Act as the single point of accountability for system governance, working with stakeholders across the business to keep controls practical and proportionate
Maintain controlled documentation for system configuration, compliance procedures and information handling
Lead the compliance and governance evaluation when new tools or systems are introduced, ensuring they meet organisational standards before adoption
Own vendor risk assessment for SaaS and third-party platforms, including due diligence on security posture, data handling and contractual compliance
Set technical and governance guardrails for business-built tools, low-code applications and internal prototypes — giving teams safe paths to build and ship without creating shadow IT or orphaned systems
Provide data-boundary clarity for Client on-boarding, Change Management, Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity workstreams
Skills / Approaches:
Min 5 years' experience owning and administering business systems in a regulated environment (pharma, life sciences, financial services or similar), or working in a quality/compliance function supporting business systems
Excellent attention to detail and document discipline, and maintenance of systems documentation
Working knowledge of one or more compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, GxP, PCI-DSS) and practical understanding of GDPR
Ability to translate compliance requirements into workable, auditable processes that scale with the business
Familiarity with system validation, change control or quality management concepts (a strong plus)
Strong stakeholder management and influence skills; comfortable holding vendors and senior internal stakeholders to account
Self-directed and comfortable with ambiguity — able to define structure where none exists
Pragmatic and detail-focused, with a bias for lightweight controls over theatre
What will it be like to work for Advancing Analytics?
As a consultancy with strong partnerships across Microsoft, Databricks, AWS, Sigma, Tabular Editor and dbt Labs, you’ll get hands-on access to some of the most exciting technology and learning opportunities in the industry. We know this market moves quickly, so we invest in our people for the long term, giving you the space to build real expertise, keep developing, and stay ahead of what’s next.
We’re also genuinely active in the wider data and AI community. That means speaking at events, sponsoring major industry moments like Big Data London, and showing up at some of the biggest stages in the space, including Databricks Data+AI Summit, Data+AI World Tour, and the Global AI AgentCon London.
We encourage our team to get involved in the community, whether that’s in the form of a personal blog or an initiative you are passionate about advocating, we will support you!
Aside from offering a competitive salary, we have a great set of benefits and perks including, but not limited to:
Industry matching Maternity & Paternity policy 🐣
Private Medical & Dental Care plus Eye care scheme 👁️
Health & Well-being supplement 🩺
25 Days Annual Leave, Birthday Leave & Charity Leave 🌴
Away days with the team 🚃
Flexible Working Hours
Electric Car Scheme 🚗
Our company values define us:
🚀 Advancing – Being part of a team that drives innovation and pushing boundaries of what’s possible. Our work redefines industry standards and challenges the status quo in the data world every day.
❤️ Come as you are – we are an inclusive company. When you work with us, rest assured you're working in a safe environment.
❌ Zero burnout – We have seen it happen, and we never want to be a company that pushes our staff to breaking point.
⬆️ We all level up together – we have each seen the benefit that being part of a community can have, it is transformational.
💡 Transparency – We are big believers that there are no secrets in Advancing Analytics, and we try to live this day to day.
You can read about our values in more detail here - https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/values
Equal opportunities for everyone
At Advancing Analytics both diversity and inclusion are a priority. We are all committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.
We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer; all applicants will be considered without regard to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity or disability status.
This role profile is intended to provide an overview of the responsibilities and qualifications required for the Business Systems Manager role. It is not an exhaustive list and may be subject to change to meet the needs of the organisation.
Advancing Analytics is a multi-award-winning data consultancy specialising in modern, scalable Data and AI platforms. Founded in 2018, we have grown into a team of specialists delivering across the UK, US and EMEA, combining strong architecture with real-world delivery.
Our Databricks partnership sits at the heart of what we do. As a Databricks Elite consulting partner, we bring proven engineering standards across the Lakehouse, machine learning and Generative AI. We are home to two Databricks MVPs and over 70 Databricks certified engineers, including 11 Databricks Partner Champions. Clients choose us for dependable delivery and teams that are easy to work with.
Our partnerships with Microsoft, AWS, Sigma and Tabular Editor underpin how we design and build secure, governed Data & AI.
As a recognised Microsoft partner, we hold three Advanced Specialisations in Analytics, AI and Machine Learning, and Build and Modernise AI Apps - and we are home to six Microsoft MVPs. Most of our work with Microsoft involves Azure Databricks, and we also compliment that with our expertise on Microsoft's AI Foundry platform, focusing on safe adoption and measurable outcomes - as well as supporting our clients who are using Power BI or other parts of the Microsoft Fabric platform to integrate with Databricks. The strength of our partnership with Microsoft gives us access to the product team to provide feedback on their Data & AI Platform - and crucially for our clients gives access to exclusive funding programmes to support POCs and implementations on the Azure platform.
We focus on outcomes, not hype. We train your teams, co-deliver, and leave robust solutions that perform. Our community presence reflects our values, from our YouTube channel to local tech meetups across the UK and regular speaking slots at international Data and AI conferences.
If you want a partner who blends strategic thought with hands-on excellence and keeps things straightforward, we are here to help.
