Contract Senior Data Analyst

London
1 year ago
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Role: Contract Data Analyst
Duration: 6-month contract
Rate: £ 450 a day
Location: 3 days a week in London

Engagement only via Umbrella NO PSC
Spectrum IT's client is looking to hire a Contract Data Analyst for an initial six-month contract. As a Senior Data Analyst you will be the front line of analytical support for the region, diving into data environments and assembling analyses to drive business action. You will utilise and build upon the analytics and reporting stack developed by the Data Science & Analytics team and provide data acquisition, processing, and analysis support to stakeholders at all levels. Collaborate with engineers, scientists, and product managers to translate business and functional requirements into concrete deliverables, including the design, development, testing, and deployment of scalable solutions.

Responsibilities:

Be the bridge between the UK Online Team and the Global Data Science Team, sharing opportunities and learnings and working on data science projects cross regionally to ensure consistent online data and insights are available within the UK.
Combine data using code (SQL, Python etc) from multiple, complex data sources to provide easy to use and understandable visual dashboards based on UK Requirements across all online touchpoints.
Take requirements from UK Product Management team and utilise advanced data modelling and visualisation skills to provide automated reporting solutions and insights for site features and usage. Provide input for planning and prioritisation of site development work.
Proactively build out reporting to analyse onsite customer funnels, identifying pain points, creating alerts for errors and potential site issues and providing data driven solutions to these types of issues. Use tools such as Big Query and Looker to build solutions for detailed monitoring.
Identify additional internal and external data sets to improve insights in the region, and facilitate their acquisition and integration.
Present actionable insights to business stakeholders on a regular basis in business review meetings and other forums.
Support the optimisation team with reporting requirements from experimentation, applying statistical methodology to understand the long term impact of experiments and modelling results across other sites and regions to support business case creation and future testing strategies.
Provide training, documentation and support to business stakeholders.
Partner with EM&D team to deliver new data driven attribution modelling in the region to challenge the performance of marketing channels and campaigns.
Analyse and provide data solutions to improve on site merchandising across product recommendations and search, working with brand coordinators for optimal models per brand, per product type etc and support reporting back on these updates.
Skills

BS/BA in a quantitative field; a plus if MS degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering) or equivalent practical experience.
4+ years of experience (2+ with a graduate degree) in Analytics, Data Science, or Software Engineering, both as an individual contributor and managing teams; including expertise with descriptive statistical analysis and data transformation
4+ years of experience with database languages SQL.
1+ year of experience with data scripting languages or statistical/mathematical software such as Python, R, Matlab, etc
Experience with analytics software such as Looker, PowerBI, Tableau, or similar open-source tools
Track record of delivering data-driven products and insights as well as influencing product and engineering decisions.
Significant experience working with large-scale cloud database systems (e.g., BigQuery). Broad Knowledge of best practices in large- and small-scale data processing
Experience in analysing, validating, and transforming large datasets.
Proficiency in deploying data-intensive solutions.
Solid understanding of the software development lifecycle.
Experience in presenting back data and insights to stakeholders, with the ability to clearly explain complex data models to non-experts.
Experience in delivering training and support to business stakeholders.
If suitable please apply or contact Natasha for more information on

Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Limited is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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