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Lead Data Analyst

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Location Leatherhead/Hybrid
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This is a Full Time/Flexible Working, Permanent vacancy that will close in {x} days at {xx:xx} BST.

We are seeking a highly skilled Lead Data Analyst to join our growing Data & Analytics team. This is a technical leadership role focused on both delivering high-quality analytics solutions and coaching Assistant Data Analysts to ensure excellence across the team. You will act as the key link between business requirements and technical execution, enabling data-driven decision-making across the organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Team Leadership & Work Planning

  • Day-to-day management of Data Analysts, including workload planning, prioritisation, and ensuring the correct structure of user stories and tasks.

2. Data Analysis & Development

  • Characterise raw data to determine source of truth, granularity, dimensions, and transformation needs.
  • Design and build data models (e.g. Star Schema), implement metrics using tools like DAX, and develop dashboards or hand off datasets for business use.

3. Requirements Gathering & Translation

  • Work closely with business users to understand needs, refine them into actionable features aligned with data strategy and Wates standards.

4. Skills Development & Training

  • Create and deliver training materials for team members and business units, promoting upskilling and a data-driven culture.

5. Support & Incident Management

  • Manage the ServiceNow queue for in-life data support, ensuring timely and accurate resolution of issues within SLA, while keeping stakeholders informed.

6. Stakeholder Engagement

  • Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including senior leadership and 3rd-party vendors.
  • May be required to join major project teams to provide data analysis expertise.

Requirements

Knowledge & Experience

  • Strong background in data analysis, modelling, and visualisation.
  • Expert in DAX, Python, and data notebooks (Databricks, Jupyter, or Azure Synapse).
  • Proficient in Power BI and Excel.
  • Familiar with Microsoft Data Lake and data modelling best practices.
  • Proven experience managing data projects and stakeholder expectations.
  • Strong ability to tell stories with data

Qualifications

  • Certification in Data Analytics Technology (preferred)
  • ITIL v3 Foundation (desirable)

Technical Skills

  • Power BI & DAX
  • Jupyter or Azure Synapse Notebooks
  • Databricks
  • Microsoft Data Lake
  • Python (or similar)

WHAT WE OFFER 

  • Competitive salary
  • Flexible working  
  • Travel covered to any of our sites (subject to HMRC advisory rates)  
  • Extensive corporate benefits including, Private Medical, Pension 8% employers’ contribution, Health and Wellness programme, 26 days holidays + bank holidays and much more…  
  • Excellent range of learning and development activity to support your career progression.
  • Industry leading family leave benefits to included 26 weeks fully paid maternity, 12 weeks fully paid paternity

Wates is one of the UK’s leading family-owned development, building and property maintenance companies. Founded over 125 years ago, we have a proud legacy in the built environment.   

We are driven by our purpose, ‘reimagining places for people to thrive’ and our three promises:

Thriving places – working with customers, partners and communities to create places that are more sustainable, inclusive, and full of opportunity. 
Thriving planet – protecting nature and taking action on climate change by collaborating and innovating with our partners.
Thriving people – creating opportunities and relationships so that everyone who works for and with us feels included, invested in, and treated with care.

We are proud to be recognised as Gold Investors in People and as a Disability Confident employer.  We also ensure that our recruitment processes do not treat anyone less favourably due to an offending background.

BEST PROJECT

Inside Housing Development Awards

WINNER

2022 Construction News Awards Winner

GOLD AWARD

Investors in People 2022

GOLD AWARD

Considerate Constructors Schemes (CCS) National Site Awards

TOP 50 EMPLOYERS

2022 Top 50 Employers for Women

WINNER

2022 Working Families Best Practice Awards

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