Data Analytics Engineer, UK
Role Overview
Create trusted, consistent, well-modelled, documented, and reusable data products for BI, analytics, operational reporting, and future AI-enabled use cases.
Bridge data engineering, data architecture, and BI by translating business rules, metrics, and analytical requirements into scalable models, semantic layers, and transformation logic.
Improve decision-making through version control, testing, documentation, data quality checks, and clear ownership of shared business definitions.
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Role overview
Create trusted, consistent, well-modelled, documented, and reusable data products for BI, analytics, operational reporting, and future AI-enabled use cases.
Bridge data engineering, data architecture, and BI by translating business rules, metrics, and analytical requirements into scalable models, semantic layers, and transformation logic.
Improve decision-making through version control, testing, documentation, data quality checks, and clear ownership of shared business definitions.
Key responsibilities
- Translate reporting and decision needs into reusable analytics requirements and data product specifications with business and technical stakeholders.
- Design, build, and maintain curated datasets, fact/dimension models, reusable metric logic, and semantic structures for self-service analytics.
- Develop modular SQL transformations with transparent, version-controlled, reusable, maintainable business rules.
- Partner with data engineers on upstream pipelines, source-to-target requirements, data-quality issues, and downstream data suitability.
- Implement data tests, reconciliation checks, metric validation, documentation reviews, and controlled releases.
- Document model definitions, lineage, business rules, ownership, limitations, and usage guidance.
- Champion reusable data products, semantic modelling, automation, AI-ready foundations, and reduced duplicated logic.
Essential requirements
- Degree or equivalent experience in data, analytics, computer science, or a related field.
- 5+ years in data, including 2+ years in analytics engineering, BI engineering, or data modelling.
- Advanced SQL skills and experience building reusable, tested, documented transformation logic.
- Experience designing analytics-ready models, curated datasets, fact/dimension models, or semantic datasets.
- Experience with modern cloud data platforms such as Microsoft Fabric, Synapse, Databricks, Snowflake, or equivalent.
- Understanding of data quality, lineage, governance, privacy, and access control in analytical environments.
- Experience with Power BI or similar BI tools and model design for reporting performance and usability.
- Experience with dbt, SQLMesh, Fabric semantic models, or equivalent analytics engineering tools; ability to collaborate across technical and business teams.
Desirable experience
- Experience building governed data products in regulated or complex environments.
- Experience with data catalogues, lineage, metadata, or business glossary tools.
- Exposure to AI-ready datasets, advanced analytics, or machine-learning use cases.
Stakeholders and travel
Works with BI and Analytics, Data Engineering, the Data Architect, Data Governance and Quality, business product owners, operational subject-matter experts, and technology teams.
External stakeholders may include data suppliers and partner organisations.
The source lists business travel of 10,000+ miles per year as a yes/no item.
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