[Hiring] Lead Data Analyst @Kainos

Role Description

As a Lead Data Analyst in Kainos, you’ll be responsible for matching the needs of data insight with understanding of the available data. Data analysts work closely with customers to produce insight products including reports, dashboards, and visualisations but also contribute to project understanding of existing data structures so that inputs and outputs are fully understood. It therefore has a strong consulting element.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Facilitating workshops and discussions to effectively gather requirements and achieve a joint understanding of data and insight needs
• Taking responsibility for the identification, gathering, and analysis of data
• Recommending data visualisation and dashboard developments to support informed decision making
• Extracting insight from data across the analytical spectrum (descriptive, diagnostic, predictive & prescriptive)
• Helping senior stakeholders to understand and meet operational and strategic data insight targets
• Working as part of a delivery team to support insight generation from digital services
• Advising customers and managers on the estimated effort and technical implications of visualisations and dashboards
• Making a significant contribution to the data analysis community and wider data and analytics capability
• Managing, coaching, and developing a small number of staff, with a focus on managing employee performance and assisting in their career development
• Providing direction and leadership for your team as you solve challenging problems together

Qualifications

• Strong leadership, analytical and communication skills with a passion for data-driven decision making
• Confidence engaging and influencing senior customers on both business and technical subjects
• Ability to lead and facilitate workshops
• Experience of contributing to bid responses and case studies
• Ability to identify opportunities for insight within business functions
• Experience using and configuring data visualisation tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Google Analytics
• Able to review and comment on data models
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to lead client projects and establish requirements in non-technical language
• Experience in managing, coaching, and developing junior members of a team and wider community

Requirements

• Passion for data-driven decision making
• Experience in managing, coaching, and developing junior members of a team

Benefits

• Commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion
• Supportive talent acquisition team for accommodations or adjustments