Associate Operational Access Management Analyst
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Sainsbury's Tech
Closing date: 05 March 2026
Requisition ID: 400051039
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. Think about the scale it takes for us to feed the nation. The level of data, transactions and variety it involves. Then you’ll realise that ours is a modern software engineering environment because it has to be. We’ve made serious investment into a Tech Academy and into setting standards and principles. We iterate, learn, experiment and push ways of working such as Agile, Scrum and XP. So you can look forward to awesome opportunities in everything from AI to reusable tech.
LOCATION - London office and home
The Associate Operational Access Management Analyst role will drive and deliver access
management controls, audits and improvements. This role is key to supporting our business to be
compliant to regulations and policies by managing data and colleague permissions to access different
classifications/sensitivities of data.
The role, part of our Operational Governance team within our Customer & Data domain in
Sainsbury’s Tech, will involve working across multiple systems, using a range of tools and
technologies to support us to operate effectively in protecting the business.
The key responsibilities of this role are to manage on two types of governance activity: our approach
to Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and democratised data (i.e. the data freely available to the
analytics community).
The fundamental purpose of the role is to ensure that our data is protected as a corporate asset and,
as such, we need to manage, improve and govern it in a way which creates value from that asset. This
role will support our compliance to both information and data policies.
What your need to do
· Utilise all defined processes to facilitate providing colleagues access to privileged systems and
tools.
· Support the implementation of the Personal Identifiable Information (PII) process creation and
maintenance of our internal system controls
· Taking the lead from corporate policy, contribute to the building of workflows used for accessing
PII data, helping to identify relevant stakeholders and owners to continuously impriove processes
for granting colleague access to PII and Commercially Sensitive data.
· Use systems (Microsoft Forms, JIRA etc.) for managing access and in parallel document the
process for audit and compliance.
· Ensure access requests and approval are recorded and auditable via ticketing system
· Reporting and policing existing access to PII data aligned to our standing operating procedures in
the team
· BAU support of PII access and issues, including facilitate access requests and providing support
and guidance for use of PII data where needed
· Provide guidance and be a single point of contact for PII access needs and questions
· Provide reporting where needed to Group Governance and entity/data owners (for awareness of
colleagues who can access their resources)
How I will succeed
· Focus on regular and robust self-auditing of activities and auditing across Sainsbury’s data community
· Robust focus on who has access to PII including managing access for leavers/movers and auditing of non-used access and expiring where needed
· Curiosity to understand our opportunity for continuous improvement, including suggesting and testing new ideas, while ensuring PII access considerations are specified and our user experience is maintained during capability developments
· Escalation of non-compliance up to Head of Operational Governance through specified tools
· Collaborative not only in the Operational Governance team but across Sainsbury’s data
· Be a problem solver, especially identifying and resolving specific access issues
· Proactive in supporting our ambition to build automation of access management and monitoring, aligned to the Operational Governance strategy
· Role-model for great access management and promote the benefits to all
· Managing a variety of complex tasks within tight timescales, including in-day requests alongside longer term projects
· Develop and utilise your existing network outside and/or within the organisation to share, learn, develop new and enhance existing capabilities – encourage our wider Operational Governance team to do the same
· Strive to become a luminary in Access Management & Audit
What you need to demonstrate
· An innovative mind and a passion for solving problems
· Have good knowledge of the data landscape, across traditional, open source, digital and cloud based environments
· Basic database and cloud configuration skills
· Some knowledge in the concepts and importance of Access Management
· Strong communication skills
· Some previous experience or knowledge of BI tools
· Confidentiality and integrity in how we access data
· Attention to detail, especially in managing in-day activity and reporting
· Level of proactivity in driving successful outcomes to support our customers
What decisions can I make & support
· Approvals with respect to proposed data roles
· Approvals of colleagues to each role type
· Prioritisation in managing in-day time and tasks
· Choice in delivery mechanism (i.e. system use development proposals, reporting choices etc.)
· Approach to stakeholder and data owner management
· No specific budget aligned to this role
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Please note, due to the volume of applications we receive, our roles may close early.
Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 5% of salary, depending on how we perform.
Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.
Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.
Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
