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# Senior Data and Insight Specialist

- **Company:** Oxfordshire County Council
- **Location:** Oxford, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Excel, Big Data, Power BI, SAP (Applications), SQL Databases, Data Processing
- **Published:** August 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=0bdda88fce7f1568

## About the Role

You are an analytical thinker with a passion for turning data into actionable insight. You have strong technical skills in data manipulation, modelling, and visualisation, with experience using Power BI to create accessible, user-focused dashboards. You are confident working with multiple data sources, comfortable using Excel to a high standard, and ideally familiar with DAX and/or SQL.

You can communicate complex information in a clear and engaging way, supporting colleagues at all levels to understand and use data effectively. You are curious, proactive, and solutions-focused-able to anticipate issues, recommend improvements, and influence positive change. You enjoy collaborative working, can manage competing priorities, and take pride and accountability in delivering high-quality work that supports evidence-based decisions.

## Description

As a Senior Data and Insight Specialist, you will play a key part in transforming raw data into meaningful insight that supports strategic workforce planning and organisational decision-making. Working closely with the Data & Insight Team Manager and Strategic People Partners, you will extract, manipulate, and interpret data from multiple systems-including SAP, IBC and other management information systems-to develop high-quality reporting and analytics.

A significant element of the role will involve designing and delivering intuitive front-end Power BI dashboards, ensuring information is clear, coherent, and tells a compelling story. You will work with large and complex datasets, apply advanced Excel skills, and ideally utilise DAX to optimise data models. Experience with SQL queries would be a strong advantage. Your analysis will help shape solutions, identify root causes, and support continuous improvement across the Council.


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