Lead Data Analyst - Enterprise Services
| Posting date: | 20 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £60,300 to £66,330 per year |
| Additional salary information: | A Recruitment and Retention Allowance (RRA) of up to £9,950 may be available for candidates who demonstrate exceptional skills and experience |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 20 December 2025 |
| Location: | Sheffield, South Yorkshire |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Government Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 437606 |
Summary
This role will particularly excite you if you are a Lead Data Analysts with 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.
Working with ServiceNow devOps engineers to map, produce, transform and test new data feeds for data owners and consumers, selecting the most appropriate tools and techniques. 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 through cross collaboration with other key data teams.
Presenting the results of data analysis to a range of senior customers, making recommendations.
Supporting ServiceNow Platform Owner to exploit emerging ServiceNow data innovations from testing through to implementation
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.
Working with ServiceNow devOps engineers to map, produce, transform and test new data feeds for data owners and consumers, selecting the most appropriate tools and techniques. 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 through cross collaboration with other key data teams.
Presenting the results of data analysis to a range of senior customers, making recommendations.
Supporting ServiceNow Platform Owner to exploit emerging ServiceNow data innovations from testing through to implementation