Senior Data Analyst | Technology
Role Specification: Senior Data Analyst
Team: Data Team
Reports to: Data Lead
Responsibilities
* Lead and manage BI and data projects from inception to completion, including planning, scoping, prioritisation, and delivery, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timelines.
* Collaborate with stakeholders to gather and refine requirements, prioritise incoming work for the team, and ensure that projects are well‑defined, achievable, and aligned with business needs.
* Handle and respond to ad‑hoc data requests from various business units, providing timely and accurate insights to support decision‑making and operational needs.
* Conduct in‑depth data analysis to identify trends, patterns, and actionable insights that inform business strategy and decisions.
* Create and maintain BI reports, dashboards, and visualisations using tools such as Power BI to provide stakeholders with meaningful and accessible insights.
* Ensure data quality, consistency, and accuracy across all BI outputs by developing and enforcing best practices, conducting data validation, and collaborating with developers where necessary.
* Work closely with cross‑functional teams and stakeholders to understand their data needs, provide guidance on BI capabilities, and deliver solutions that add value.
* Mentor analysts and developers, sharing best practices and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and development within the team.
* Participate in Agile ceremonies such as sprint planning, stand‑ups, and retrospectives to help the team stay aligned, improve processes, and deliver effectively.
Key Skills
* Advanced data analysis and SQL skills: strong experience in SQL for writing and optimising queries, performing complex analysis, and translating data into actionable insights.
* BI tool expertise: proficiency in using BI tools such as Power BI to create meaningful reports and dashboards.
* Project management proficiency: demonstrated experience in managing and delivering data and BI projects, including scoping, planning, prioritisation, and execution while balancing multiple tasks and stakeholders.
* Strong communication and stakeholder management: excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage with both technical and non‑technical stakeholders and translate their needs into effective BI solutions.
* Data quality and governance knowledge: understanding of data governance principles and practices, with experience ensuring data quality, consistency, and accuracy in BI outputs.
* Mentorship and leadership: proven ability to mentor and guide team members, encouraging professional development and knowledge sharing.
* Agile methodology understanding: experience working in an Agile environment, participating in Agile ceremonies, and contributing to iterative improvements in team processes.
* Ad‑hoc analysis capabilities: ability to handle unplanned or ad‑hoc data requests efficiently and deliver quick, accurate insights to support business operations.
About Nucleus Group Services Limited
We are the Nucleus Group Services Limited and we help make retirement more rewarding. Here at Nucleus, people come first – whether it’s our colleagues, or the advisers and customers we support – we know that working in partnership and collaboration leads to the best outcomes.
Our ambition is to create a platform with a difference, putting the customer centre stage and starting from scratch. We’ve come a long way since then, but our mission remains just as focused. That’s why our culture, values and social responsibility stay at the top of our agenda – because we know they matter and have a big impact.
We want an environment where our people feel that they can make a real difference, know they’ll be rewarded for their efforts, and enjoy themselves at work.
Inclusion and Diversity
We care about inclusion. It’s not a tick‑box exercise; inclusion and diversity are embedded in our culture and everything we do. It’s a commercial imperative, a strategic priority and a foundation for a fair, balanced and transparent financial services sector.
We believe that more diversity means broader experience, a wider set of perspectives and a better collective ability to problem‑solve. It also means being more representative of customer groups, which supports product development and innovation.
Benefits
We offer a generous blend of benefits for the things that really matter to our people, including a non‑contributory pension, bonus, enhanced parental leave, paid time off for emergencies, health and wellbeing initiatives and flexible working options.
For more information about us or the role, please get in touch with our recruitment team.
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