Description
Job Title: Advanced Analytics Analyst
Location: Edinburgh or Dundee
Salary: £47,790 to £58,410
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of your time, at our above offices.
About This Opportunity:
We have an exciting opportunity for an Advanced Analytics Analyst to join our Embark Data Engineering Lab. In this role, you will play a key part in developing and maintaining data pipelines within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and the Microsoft BI Stack, while performing statistical analysis on large datasets to deliver sustainable, high-impact analytics for the business.
You will work independently on engineering tasks and collaboratively on analytics projects, supporting a lean team model and ensuring compliance with SLAs and regulatory deadlines. This is a fantastic chance to combine technical expertise with analytical insight to drive data-driven decision-making across the organisation.
What you’ll be doing:
1. Support the migration from Microsoft BI stack to GCP, contributing to pipeline design and maintenance (BigQuery, Dataflow, Composer).
2. Analyse data using established tools and adapt to new GCP environments.
3. Perform statistical analysis (regression, hypothesis testing, forecasting) to solve business problems and support regulatory reporting, especially Consumer Duty requirements.
4. Communicate technical concepts to stakeholders, translating for non-technical audiences.
5. Identify and resolve data quality issues, proactively reconciling discrepancies.
6. Maintain audit trails and ensure GDPR compliance in data governance.
7. Pursue GCP certification and Python upskilling; coach others as needed.
8. Deliver outcomes within strategic planning and risk management frameworks, meeting tight deadlines.
9. Contribute to team resilience and positive culture by flexing across analytics and engineering tasks.
Why Lloyds Banking Group:
If you think all banks are the same, you’d be wrong. We’re an innovative, fast-changing business that’s shaping finance as a force for good. A bank that’s empowering its people to innovate, explore possibilities and grow with purpose.
What you’ll need:
10. Strong analytical skills with experience in data engineering, statistical analysis and data interpretation.
11. Ability to work independently and escalate when needed.
12. Comfortable with ambiguity and self-directed learning.
13. Experience with large datasets and data quality management.
14. Understanding of data governance and regulatory context (or willingness to learn).
15. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
16. Enthusiasm for learning new technologies.
About working for us:
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.
We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.
We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:
17. A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
18. An annual performance-related bonus
19. Share schemes including free shares
20. Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
21. 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top
22. A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Ready for a career where you can have a positive impact as you learn, grow and thrive? Apply today and find out more.
At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop.
We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person.
We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.