Data Analyst – Mercator Digital

What we’re looking for

We’re seeking a dynamic, forward-thinking  Data Analyst with excellent communication skills. We’re looking for individuals who are adaptable, collaborative team players, eager to embrace new technologies and advocate for best practices.

Job type

Full time, permanent. We encourage those who may need a more agile approach to the structure of their working day to apply; we are always willing to discuss flexible options where we can.

Location

You’ll be expected to travel to our customer’s site and potentially sites UK wide; working from client/office/home locations as appropriate.

As a Data Analyst you will:

Understand product owners’ needs to translate business requirements into analytics requirements and ensure that priorities are met
Create visualisation of data, conduct deep-dive analysis and share insights & recommendations
Ensure data collection and standardisation is met and explain methodologies to stakeholders
Communicating efficiently and work together within a multi-disciplinary team, fostering the open and collaborative culture
Enable data driven decision making to personalise the journeys of individuals to ensure they have the best and most appropriate experience
Produce product performance dashboards, user segmentation analysis, media agency tagging implementation
Produce programme dashboards and weekly analysis / information updates

Knowledge/experience

You will need:

Google Cloud Platform knowledge with experience setting up and iterating:
– Google Cloud Platform Projects & IAM permissions
– Google Storage buckets and folders
– Google Dataprep flows, recipes and outputs as ETL pipeline to provide datasets for analysis and feed into dashboards
Experience working as a Digital Analyst using Google 360 Enterprise Analytics:
– Google Tag Manager containers and tags, triggers and variable to feed user behaviour and marketing activity tracking data into Google Analytics Properties.
– Google Analytics properties and views to provide user behaviour goals and funnels to enable product iteration
– Google Data Studio dashboards (with SQL, Google Sheets and Google Analytics sources) to share information with a broad range of stakeholders
A proven track record of web analytics reporting, building dashboards & ad-hoc analysis
Experience in Social Media analytics (reporting, building dashboards & analysis)
Experience in identifying and personalisation of user journeys derived from quantitative analytics
Experience in Agile development environment (Scrum/Kanban)
Azure SQL Database and Azure Cosmos Database experience
Use of collaboration tools such as Jira and Confluence, Github and Trello
Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills and can present complex information persuasively and inclusively to a wide range of audience
Understanding of the Azure Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud offering
Reading, writing, and querying data in JSON format

Desired skills:

Implementing appropriate Machine Learning models, including selection and optimisation for automated outputs (and understanding model accuracy, limitations, biases, and ethics)
SQL Management Studio for working with SQL code, Visual Studio, as appropriate to data related enterprise tooling tasks, Power BI for advanced data visualisation, Excel, including power query, pivot tables, and pivot charts
Proven ability working to Government Digital Service Standards and documenting the necessary evidence to pass a GDS assessment.
Previous Public Sector Experience
Agile / Scrum certified
Google Tag Manager