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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Senior Data Analyst - **Company:** Omni Resource Management Solutions - **Location:** Edinburgh, UK - **Experience:** Expert - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Data Analysis, Big Data, Computer Programming, Python (Programming Language), Pyspark, Databricks - **Published:** November 3, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.cv-library.co.uk/job/225792577/Senior-Data-Analyst ## About the Role * Proven experience using Databricks (essential) * Strong programming skills in Python (essential) * Experience working with: + PySpark + Large-scale data processing environments + Complex behavioural datasets * Experience cleaning, preparing and processing: + Large datasets + Real-world data containing inconsistencies and anomalies + Data with missing values, outliers and quality issues * Strong analytical and statistical skills * Ability to independently manage and deliver analytical projects Behavioural attributes * Executing plans: organise tasks and set clear goals, managing resources wisely, while keeping an eye on progress, using attention to detail, ensuring accuracy and integrity in analytical outputs. * Harmonising work: work effectively with others, creating an honest team environment and sharing valuable information and resources. * Articulating ideas: express your ideas, thoughts, and information in a clear and concise manner, ensuring messages are understood by everyone, with the ability to create clear, understandable visualisations of potentially complex data., * Degree qualified, or equivalent professional experience, in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Psychology, Geography, Economics, or similar) ## Description Please note: this role will close at 00:01 on Monday 16 November, and therefore we advise getting your application in by no later than midnight on Sunday 15 November., The Research and Intelligence team is the source of critical information and insight within Ofcom, providing data and analysis on the communications industries. We sit within the Strategy and Research Group and provide first-class analysis and insight of UK communications market developments that serve as the evidence base for Ofcom's policy and regulatory work. We work collaboratively with other Ofcom teams and with external stakeholders to deliver Ofcom's objectives. The team includes market researchers, industry analysts and data specialists. Within the Statistics and Analytics team in the Research and Intelligence team, we aim to make the most of the vast amount of data that we collect and hold, supporting researchers and analysts to use the most robust datasets, streamline and automate data-related processes and communicate insight and findings in the best possible ways. We investigate and apply innovative analytical techniques to new and existing datasets to maximise their use. Purpose of the Role This role plays a leading part in delivering high-quality analytical evidence to support Ofcom's regulatory, policy and enforcement responsibilities. Working across a portfolio of strategically important research and intelligence projects, this role will provide project leadership, technical expertise and analytical insight. Key responsibilities include driving the analytical delivery of large-scale behavioural datasets for Ofcom's Children's Passive Online Measurement programme and playing a key role in the production of the Communications Market Report, transforming complex data into authoritative evidence that informs decision-making across the organisation. This role will involve working with colleagues across Ofcom to ingest, analyse and visualise data, producing reproducible and robust outputs. These will range from summary statistics and interactive visualisations, to exploring more innovative methods of analysis to provide insight to support Ofcom's policy objectives, engaging with colleagues across the organisation to determine these analyses and outputs. This role is also expected to support other analytical activities within the Research and Intelligence team, including contributing to data collection and collation methods for information gathered from regulated stakeholders, and leading on pieces of analysis for internal and external audiences. Your key responsibilities * Establish and maintain robust, repeatable processes for ingestion, cleaning, and analysis of large datasets including clear documentation of processes, assumptions, and caveats. * Provide project management and leadership for a range of research and analytical projects, including those using new and innovative methods. * Collaborate with a wide range of colleagues, setting and managing expectations, and building effective working relationships. * Support the strategic development of Ofcom's access to datasets and partnerships that fulfil evidence requirements, including scoping complex datasets of varying sizes and structures from a range of sources and engaging with external research experts and data vendors. * Engage with project teams across Ofcom to capture the analytical requirements involved in the delivery of Ofcom' strategic objectives. * Provide support for a range of other analytical activities as required.