Remediation Data Analyst at National Savings & Investments, London, £Contract Rate

An active SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. (Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.) 

Purpose of role in the organisation

•    Act as an expert in NS&I data, including how it is structured, interpreted, manipulated and quality assured to support remediation activity.

•    Produce and undertake data-related activities, including data extracts, to support delivery of the remediation programme.

•    Produce analysis and reporting that provides stakeholders with clear, accurate insight and information relating to remediation activities.

Key Responsibilities 

Remediation data activities

•    Develop and maintain the data, code and processes that support remediation, including optimisation, documentation and quality assurance of the existing code base.

•    Maintain expert knowledge of relevant data structures, content, capabilities, limitations and known quality issues.

•    Interrogate and interpret remediation and wider data in NS&I analytical data repositories using appropriate tools, analytical techniques and quality controls.

•    Provide analytical support to the remediation programme, producing insight and evidence to inform decisions and delivery activity.

•    Explain analysis clearly to stakeholders with varying levels of data literacy, including non-technical audiences.

Remediation population management

•    Undertake updates to the remediation population as required, ensuring changes are controlled, tested and documented.

•    Understand how the remediation population is created, including the data features, controls and testing used to reduce delivery and data quality risk.

Regular, repeatable processes and reporting

•    Undertake regular data-related processes at the required frequency, applying appropriate controls and following established, documented procedures.

•    Validate and assure work undertaken by other members of the team

Remediation data development

•    Identify and recommend changes or enhancements that improve efficiency, control, quality or repeatability of remediation data processes.

•    Translate remediation programme needs into clear specifications for data, process and reporting enhancements.

•    Test new data items as they are added, confirming they meet requirements and raising issues through the appropriate route.

•    Raise, track and support resolution of data issues, ensuring impacts and actions are clearly recorded.

•    Document processes as they are amended, enhanced or newly developed.

Development

•    Take ownership of ongoing development, maintaining expertise in relevant data sources, tools and operational processes.

Essential qualifications

•    Degree-level qualification, or equivalent experience, in a numerate, analytical or statistical subject.

Essential skills and experience

•    Experience delivering data outputs that support business-critical, operational or remediation activities.

•    Experience handling operational, case-level data with appropriate attention to accuracy, control and confidentiality.

•    Working-level knowledge of R or Python and their respective ecosystems, including experience writing, developing and optimising code for complex programmes and scripts.

•    Working-level knowledge of business intelligence or data visualisation tools, such as Tableau or Power BI, and experience applying a range of visualisation techniques to communicate insight clearly.

Essential technical knowledge

•    Expert-level knowledge of Excel, including advanced formulas, data manipulation and quality checking techniques.