About the job

Job summary

About the role

Join our Data Infrastructure team as a Senior Data Analyst and help us transform DBT into an insight-driven organisation that tells compelling stories with its data. You will be leading on work backed by our ground-breaking data and insight platform, Data Workspace. The service gives our staff access to a catalogue of key trade data and a suite of powerful tools with which to analyse and explore it.

As Senior Data Analyst you will use high quality datasets held inside and outside DBT including data and management information, commercial and business data. The department has a relationship with international datasets from Org. for Economic Cooperation and Development, World Bank and UN Comtrade, statistical microdata and large datasets from Office of National Statistics and His Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. You will analyse and facilitate the analysis of these datasets, leading on projects to help DBT get insight from them.

Job description

Main responsibilities

You will:

• Lead and deliver on data analysis projects. During projects, collaborate with colleagues across the business to understand the data insights that would add the most value in their area and work out the best way to meet those needs.
• Work independently to deliver projects and oversee the work of junior team members, including through line management.
• Apply tools and techniques for data analysis and data visualisation, working across a broad range of areas such as business intelligence, data assurance and quality.
• Produce compelling analysis and visualisation of data (e.g. dashboards) to provide actionable insights to technical, policy and operational colleagues.
• Develop a deep understanding of the systems we use to organise and store data, identifying and assessing new data sources, and investigating and resolving problems as they occur. Use these to manage and maintain data, ensuring it aligns to DBT’s data standards, is protected, and used in line with established governance.
• Have enthusiasm for helping colleagues to get the maximum value from data. To enable this, you will take a proactive approach to developing your skills and sharing them with others. As part of this you will design and facilitate training for other across the department in the usage of our data analysis tools.

Person specification

Skills and Experience

It is essential that you have:

• A good understanding, and experience, of data visualisation; you should understand how to tell compelling and actionable stories that are relevant to business goals. This will include experience with a dashboarding/BI tool (for example Tableau, Power BI, AWS QuickSight, Google Data Studio, or others) and use of a visualisation library (for example Shiny or Streamlit).
• Experience of leadership in a data role and good communication skills, to identify opportunities, manage relationships and communicate accurate information to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience using SQL as well as either Python or R to bring data together from different sources and get them ready for analysis using cleaning and preparation techniques.

 

It is desirable that you have:

• Knowledge of project management techniques and an understanding of how they can be applied in different environments.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £52,000, Department for Business and Trade contributes £14,040 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

How to apply

As part of the application process you will be asked to upload a two page CV and complete a personal statement (750 words) outlining how you meet the essential skills and experience listed above. You can use bullet points and subheadings if you prefer.

 

Sift will be from week commencing 03 June 2024

Interviews will be from week commencing 10 June 2024

Please note these dates are indicative and may be subject to change.

If there is a high volume of applications, we will sift looking at your CV only. You may then be progressed to full sift or straight to interview.

 

How we interview

At the interview stage for this role, you will be asked to demonstrate relevant Technical Skills and Behaviours from the Success Profiles framework. These are role specific and in line with the DDaT Capability Framework.

 

Technical Skills

• IT and mathematics
• Data visualisation
• Statistical methods and data analysis
• Project management
• Communication

 

Behaviours

• Seeing the Big Picture
• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions

 

You will also be asked to undergo an assessment and will be informed on the topic before the interview.

How we offer

Offers may be made in merit order based on location preferences. If you pass the bar at interview but are not the highest scoring you will be held on a 12-month reserve list in case a role becomes available. If you are judged a near miss at interview, you may be offered a post at the grade below the one you applied for.

 

This role requires SC clearance. DBT’s requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years. Failure to meet this requirement will result in your application being rejected and your offer will be withdrawn.

Checks will also be made against:

• departmental or company records (personnel files, staff reports, sick leave reports and security records)
• UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records
• your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency
• security services record
• location details

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.