Senior Data Analyst

Job summary

Can you see the story behind the data and bring it to life for others?

Have you got the skills to lead complex analytical work and deliver trusted insight?

Are you excited by the opportunity to influence decision-making across an organisation?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

This is an opportunity to play a leading role in how data and analysis supports decision-making across the agency. As a Senior Data Analyst, you’ll turn complex information into clear, well-assured insight, working with senior leaders and specialists to understand priorities and develop analytical products that meet their needs.

You’ll help ensure analysis is built on trusted data and sound business logic, while supporting colleagues to understand and confidently use analytical products and insight.

Joining our department comes with many benefits, including:

• Employer pension contribution of 28.97% of your salary. Read more about Civil Service Pensions here
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service (up to a maximum of 30 days annual leave), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday
• Flexible working options where we encourage a great work-life balance.

Read more in the Benefits section below!

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Job description

The job holder will use data to make a real difference to decision-making across the agency. You’ll lead the delivery of trusted analytical products and curated datasets, translating complex information into clear and compelling insight.

Working collaboratively with senior leaders and specialists, you’ll shape analytical priorities, ensure outputs are underpinned by robust data and business logic, and help colleagues confidently understand and act on the insights you provide.

Your key responsibilities will include, but aren’t limited to:

• Deliver high-value strategic analytical products that directly support senior decision-making, ensuring dashboards, insights and metrics are accurate, trusted and aligned to organisational priorities.
• Work in partnership with Business Analysts to refine analytical requirements, translate business needs into clear analytical specifications, and ensure analytical products are designed around measurable business value.
• Design and implement robust analytical logic, including Materialised Views, Genie Spaces and other analytical data structures, ensuring consistent definitions, reliable calculations and well-structured data that supports high-quality analysis.
• Act as a specialist in analytical methods and visualisation, providing expert guidance in Power BI and other analytical tools, and supporting colleagues to develop clear, compelling insight that informs action.
• Lead analytical quality assurance aligned with the Government’s Aqua Book, validating data, methods and outputs to ensure analytical products are robust, trustworthy and decision-ready.
• Work closely with Senior Business Analysts and the Heads of Data Insights and Analytics, Data Engineering, Data Science and Data Governance to align analytical requirements, inform the evolution of analytical datasets and data products from an analytical perspective, and ensure analytical products are built on reliable, well-understood and analytically ready data foundations.
• Work iteratively using Agile delivery practices, contributing to planning, prioritisation and continuous refinement of analytical products, and supporting incremental delivery of insight in line with user needs.
• Support the adoption and effective use of analytical products by senior leaders and teams, communicating insights clearly, shaping analytical narratives, and helping stakeholders understand, trust and act on analytical outputs.
• Provide technical leadership within the Data Insights & Analytics team, supporting the development of others through mentoring and, where required, line management, and continuously improving analytical standards, capability and ways of working.

Great line management is important to us as an organisation, and we will equip and support line managers to develop the skills set out in the Civil Service Line Management Standards.

For further information on the role, please read the role profile. Please note that the role profile is for information purposes only - whilst all elements are relevant to the role, they may not all be assessed during the recruitment process. This job advert will detail exactly what will be assessed during the recruitment process.

Person specification

You will be required to provide evidence that you hold any essential qualifications/licenses at some point during the recruitment process. If you cannot provide evidence, your application will be withdrawn.

Required experience:

To be successful in this role you will need to have the following experience:

1. Applied knowledge of advanced data analysis, analytical modelling (including dimensional or semantic modelling), and visualisation tools including Power BI, and Databricks;
2. Experience influencing and clearly communicating with senior nontechnical stakeholders about analytical findings.

There is an expectation post holders will either be or will be willing to work towards becoming Badged government analysts.

Additional Information

Working hours, office attendance and travel requirements

Full-time roles consist of 37 hours per week.

Whilst we welcome applications from those looking to work with us on a part-time basis, there is a business requirement for the successful candidate to be able to work at least 30 hours per week.

This role is suitable for hybrid working, which is a non-contractual arrangement where a combination of workplace and home-based working can be accommodated subject to business requirements.

The expectation at present is a minimum of 60% of your working time a month will be spent at either your designated workplace (one of the locations cited in the advert) or, when required for business reasons, in another office/work location/visiting stakeholders. Your designated workplace will be your contractual place of work. There may be occasions where you are required to attend above the minimum expectation.

Occasional travel to other offices will be required, which may involve overnight stays.

If you have a question about hybrid working, part time/job share hours, flexible working, travelling for work, or require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Vacancy Holder during the recruitment process to avoid possible disappointment later in the process should your working arrangements not be compatible with the requirements of the role (see below for contact details).

Visa Sponsorship

Please note that we will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa where a role has been deemed to be business critical. This role does not meet that category, and we will not sponsor a visa. Therefore, this role is not open to applications from those who require sponsorship – candidates must ensure they have the appropriate right to work in the UK before applying. Should you apply for this