Data Scientist Insights

Sparx
Exeter
2 weeks ago
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Job description

Apply by:Expires at any time latest being 5pm Wednesday 30th April
Start date:Immediate start available
Term:Permanent. Fulltime 40 hours per week) working Monday Friday
Salary:30k to 40k per annum
Location:Exeter Devon (In person with flexibility)


Drive impact through data: join Sparx Learning as a Data Scientist Insights!

As a Data Scientist Insights you will play a key role in our Insights team usingyour strong technical skills and experienceto create actionable insights for both our schools and our internal teams helping them to put data at the heart of decisions.

Heres how youll make a difference:

1. Develop impactful customer focussed insights
: Use your proven ability and experience to analyse complex data and translate it into meaningful insights for our schools teachers and other stakeholders. Your expertise will help enhance their experience with Sparx systems and drive student impact.

2. Develop and maintain our internal insight tools and dashboards:Support our internal teams helping them to better understand how our users interact with the product or how our systems are performing and enabling better datadriven insights and decisions across the business.

3. Investigate key business questions: work with all the different internal teams (from Senior leadership product and engineering school success teams and more) to help answer questions in a robust and datadriven way using the most suitable approaches and techniques ranging from simple analysis to purposebuilt statistical models and visualising results in a compelling way.


About us

At Sparx Learning were on a mission to improve lives and the world through learning. We work with over 2600 schools 60000 teachers and 2.4 million students building systems that enhance student confidence skills and attainment. Learn more about our history impact team products and work environmenthere.

Whats needed
  • Analytical expertise:Using your skills and experience having the ability to transform complex data into clear actionable insights that drive meaningful outcomes.

  • Technical proficiency:12 years experience using R (preferred) or Python with the confidence to explore analyse and manipulate data. SQL skills would also be an added bonus

  • Data tools/ communication skills:Experience with data tools and techniques including dashboards statistical models and data visualisation.

  • Problemsolving skills:Strong aptitude for answering key business questions with robust datadriven approaches.

  • Collaboration:Proven ability to work effectively across diverse teams including senior leadership product engineering and school success teams.

  • Communication:Skilled in presenting data and insights in a compelling and understandable way to both technical and nontechnical audiences.

  • Customer focus:Commitment to delivering great insights that drive impact

  • Pace & agility:Seeing change as an opportunity to learn and grow and always looking to enhance

What youll bring
  • Strong technical experience and expertise:12 years minimum handson experience in a data role with a strong grasp of insights and their practical application.

  • Experience and skill:Working experience inR/Pythonand a degree in quantitative discipline like Mathematics or Statistics. Experience with Googles ecosystem (BigQuery Dataform and Looker Studio) is a plus as is Github and data storage.

  • Stakeholder management: Experience of working with internal and external stakeholders understanding their needs and concerns.

  • Excellent communication skills:Skilled at translating technical findings into actionable insights and compelling visualisations for a wide range of audiences.

  • Purposedriven mindset:A passion for education and a commitment to creating meaningful change. Experience in the education sector is a bonus.

  • Collaboration:A team player whos warm supportive and a pleasure to work with.

Our benefits

We believe in living life fully and offer a range of benefits including generous annual leave comprehensive medical and dental insurance enhanced family leave and pay plus so much more!to find out more!

In person with flexibility: We trust you to manage your schedule when life happens whether its school runs or unexpected errands. But at Sparx we love the energy creativity and pace that comes from being together in person. Collaboration and connection drive our success so we encourage everyone to be together in person as much as possible.

Selection process
  1. Technical task:To showcase your technical expertise and have more insight into the role.

  2. Video Interview:Wed like to get to know more about you and understand your skills and experience.

  3. In person interview:Youll meet some of the team and a further technical focussed interview.

  4. Meeting with our CEO:A great chance to dive deeper into Sparx and our mission.

Join us and be part of a mission shaping the future.

Sparx does not hold a licence to sponsor visas. We cannot process applications requiring sponsorship.

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Key Skills
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Employment Type :Full-Time
Experience:years
Vacancy:1
Yearly Salary Salary:30 - 40

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