16142 - Senior Analytics Engineer

We're recruiting for a Senior Analytics Engineer here at the Ministry of Justice, to be part of our warm and collaborative Data Modelling and Engineering team.

This role aligns against Senior Analytics Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework

This is a great opportunity to work with leading cloud technology and help change the way data is used in the public sector. Analytics engineers at MoJ play a critical role in our mission to put data at the heart of decision-making. We're looking for people with the drive to develop a deep understanding of data needs and data availability across specific areas of the Ministry of Justice. You will work in a team of Analytics Engineers, alongside Data Engineers, to bridge the gap between data producers and data users, developing analytical pipelines and self-service tools to acquire and transform data, making it available on our Analytical Platform., As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will:

Gather requirements from users and translate these into clear deliverables for the Data Engineering and Modelling teams. Build, test and maintain dimensional data models that enable analysis and reporting, ensuring data dimensions are conformed where possible. Collaborate with Data Engineers and Data Platform colleagues to prioritise, plan, and deliver solutions that enable better decision making. Lead on ensuring the completeness, accuracy, and quality of data pipelines and models. Develop and maintain metadata, documentation, and self-service tools to support data discovery and intelligent use. Highlight data quality or governance issues and work collaboratively to drive improvements. Act as a key point of contact for analytical user communities, promoting automation, efficiency and adoption of tools such as dbt and Airflow. Support others across the organisation to learn, adopt and implement new tools and technologies. Help to build and foster a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence within the data community.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Using SQL to query and transform data Dimensional modelling including designing and populating star schemas Working with large relational databases Testing and quality assuring data Building data and analytical pipelines

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance.

37 hours per week and flexible working options including working from home, working part-time, job sharing, or working compressed hours. A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best in class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms Staff have 10% time to dedicate to develop & grow Generous civil service pension based on defined benefit scheme, with employer contributions of 28.97% from April 1st 2024 (Contribution Rates) 25 days leave (plus bank holidays) and 1 privilege day usually taken around the Kings' birthday. 5 additional days of leave once you have reached 5 years of service. Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too! Wellbeing support including access to the Calm app. Nurturing professional and interpersonal networks including those for Carers & Childcare, Gender Equality, PROUD and SPIRIT Bike loans up to £2500 and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location) Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers and eye-care vouchers. 5 days volunteering paid leave. Some offices may have a subsidised onsite Gym.