Aerospace Data Analyst

About ALTEN

Role overview

Key responsibilities

• Gather, analyse and interpret data from multiple sources to identify trends, risks, gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Develop and maintain reports, dashboards and performance indicators for business and operational performance.
• Understand internal teams’ data requirements and translate them into analytical solutions.
• Clean, validate and structure datasets to ensure accuracy, completeness and reliability.
• Monitor key performance measures and investigate variances from expected targets.
• Present complex data accessibly to support informed stakeholder decisions.
• Improve and automate reporting and data-analysis processes.
• Support KPI frameworks and performance reporting across business functions.
• Investigate root causes of performance issues and provide actionable insights.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to improve data quality, reporting consistency and data visibility.
• Deliver regular and ad hoc analysis for programme and business needs.
• Use data to identify inefficiencies and measure continuous improvement impact.

Required skills and experience

• Previous professional experience as a Data Analyst, Business Data Analyst, Reporting Analyst or similar within aerospace.
• Strong experience working with large and complex datasets.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel, including data manipulation, formulas, PivotTables and analytical functions.
• Strong Power BI experience developing dashboards, reports and data visualisations.
• Experience using SQL to extract, manipulate and analyse data.
• Strong understanding of data cleansing, validation and data-quality principles.
• Experience creating and monitoring KPIs and performance metrics.
• Ability to turn raw data into meaningful business insights and recommendations.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities, attention to detail, stakeholder communication and ability to meet deadlines.

Required qualification

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Engineering, or equivalent military experience.

Desirable skills and experience

• Experience in aerospace, engineering, manufacturing or another complex industrial environment is desirable.
• Knowledge of Power Query and DAX is desirable.
• Experience automating or streamlining recurring reporting activities is desirable.
• Exposure to Python for data analysis is advantageous.
• Understanding of manufacturing, supply chain, quality or operational performance data is desirable.
• Experience reporting to senior stakeholders and programme leadership is desirable.
• Knowledge of continuous improvement methodologies and using data to support process improvement is desirable.

Working at ALTEN

• The company describes projects with leading companies and ongoing learning, mentoring and career development tailored to employee goals.