Data Analytics Specialist

Role overview

Salary and grade

• Salary is £60,468–£70,510, with a separate London range of £64,589–£75,151.
• The role is Grade 7 and includes a Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%.

Contract and working pattern

• The role is permanent; working patterns include full-time, part-time, flexible working, and job share.
• Two positions are available.

Locations and presence

• Advertised locations are Birmingham, Bristol, Bootle, Croydon, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, Reading, and Swansea.
• Employees are expected to maintain a regular presence at their designated work location and travel to other GIAA locations or client sites for critical meetings and field assignments.
• Contractual location must be one of the advertised locations and within reasonable daily commuting distance; existing GIAA employees may remain at their current workplace location.

Job responsibilities

• Develop R and Python scripts and applications, including with Shiny and Django, for audit and counter-fraud analytics.
• Create and present reports and visualisations; document and maintain code collaboratively using DevOps and Git.
• Improve scripts, packages, pipelines, applications, and quality-assurance processes.
• Upskill colleagues, promote analytics, explore approaches with external data teams, and support analytics research and development.
• Apply LLMs and AI models and build tools for safe and effective AI use.

Person specification

• Experience interpreting customer needs and delivering advanced analytics using R or Python.
• Communicate complex analytical results effectively to non-experts.
• Connect business problems to analytical solutions, work with others to implement them, and identify emerging methods and opportunities.
• Strong organisation, experience managing multiple projects at pace, and relationship-building skills.
• Experience in at least two of: Quarto outputs; R or Python web applications; AI products; Azure environments; business-critical models.

Application and selection

• Submit employment history, personal details, and a statement of suitability of no more than 750 words addressing the person specification.
• Only the statement of suitability is assessed at sift stage; interviews are held on Teams.