Role: Platform Specialist Data & Analytics Duration: Initial 6 months, with potential to convert to permanent Clearance: Active SC clearance (mandatory) Location: Hybrid 2 days per week on site, remainder remote Important Notes: Active SC clearance is mandatory, as the selected candidate will be required to start immediately. Required Skills: Someone who can deliver, cut through complexity, communicate clearly, and operate confidently in a complex stakeholder environment. Key Responsibilities: Act as a hands-on platform specialist across a secure, cloud-based data and analytics platform. Contribute directly to build, configuration, and implementation activity alongside developers and data engineers. Support definition of the POC scope, success criteria, and value proposition. Shape the technical path from POC to MVP, considering scalability, security, governance, and reuse. Contribute to analytics and insight generation over identity, access, and entitlement-related datasets. Provide pragmatic technical input across data ingestion, analytics, visualisation, access control, and environments. Work closely with delivery leadership to surface risks and maintain delivery momentum. Ensure decisions, progress, and artefacts are shared and transparent. Explain technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders. Enable teams to deliver independently over time. Technical Environment & Tooling (Indicative): The platform provides a secure, cloud-hosted analytics workbench supporting modern analytics and data science workflows, including: Notebook-based development environments (Python / R style workflows) SQL-based querying and data transformation Dashboarding and visualisation tools (e.g. Tableau, Power BI, Apache Superset or equivalent) Cloud-native infrastructure (e.g. AWS-based environments) Secure multi-user collaboration with governance and auditability Essential Experience: Active SC clearance Strong hands-on experience with cloud-based data and analytics platforms Background in data engineering, analytics platforms, or data science enablement Proven experience contributing directly to build and implementation Experience taking initiatives from POC to MVP or production Understanding of security, governance, reuse, and scalability considerations Ability to simplify complexity and communicate technical trade-offs clearly Desirable Experience: Experience working in secure or regulated environments Exposure to analytics or data platforms involving identity, access management, or security-related datasets Experience enabling multiple teams or user groups on a shared platform Track record of demonstrating business value early