Lead Data Analyst
| Posting date: | 01 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £60,300 to £70,730 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Recruitment Retention Allowance (RRA): Up to £9,950 is available for candidates who demonstrate exceptional skills and experience evidenced at interview stage. |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 August 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 419565/4 |
Summary
In this role, you will identify and deliver new data sources and develop ETL processes, collaborate with the Data Acquisition, Analytics and Infrastructure teams to deliver the data strategy through the design and implementation of technology systems.
We value diversity and provide an open, inclusive, and supportive environment to help you do your best work.
The successful candidate will either be located in 2 Ruskin Square – Croydon, Soapworks - Manchester, Vulcan House - Sheffield, regional office. Under Home Office hybrid working practices there is an expectation that you will attend the office for a minimum of 60% of your working hours.
Lead Data Analysts need to have a genuine passion for analytics, an innovative mindset and need to question current methods of delivery to enhance our processes and to offer a different perspective.
As a Lead Data Analyst, you will lead on the exploration and exploitation of a range of complex data sets, analytical tools and techniques to support a range of stakeholders across Home Office. You will ensure that a wide set of innovative opportunities are explored; evaluating options, impacts, risks and solutions to provide clear problem definitions and inspiring full exploitation of new data and technology.
You will build and manage a network of colleagues and contacts to achieve progress on shared objectives.
You will be a thought leader within the Data Analysis community and manage the development of junior staff.
What you will do
Your main day to day responsibilities will be:
As a lead Data Analyst, you will showcase a true passion for data and exhibit expertise in the following areas:
- Leading teams to create data analysis products which are proportionate to the business benefit and achieve significant impact.
- Expanding the boundaries of what can be achieved using data, predicting.
- Patterns of behaviour and understanding emerging trends and areas of innovation both in government and industry.
- Supporting the Principal Data Analyst on the management of workload and teams and inputting into the strategy for Data Analysis.
- Leading in identifying, collecting and migrating complex data and business questions to/from a range of systems.
- Developing knowledge of cutting-edge techniques and sharing knowledge of Data Analysis across the organisation.
- Presenting the results of data analysis to a range of senior customers, making recommendations.
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