Lead Analytics Engineer
Role Overview
Lead Analytics Engineer in Ofgem's Digital, Data and Security Services directorate.
Shapes how data is structured, modelled, and consumed across the organization.
Senior, hands-on technical role spanning data engineering, analytics, and stakeholder engagement.
Supports modern data platforms and analytics for operational and strategic needs.
Key Skills for This Role
Full Job Posting
Role overview
Lead Analytics Engineer in Ofgem's Digital, Data and Security Services directorate.
Shapes how data is structured, modelled, and consumed across the organization.
Senior, hands-on technical role spanning data engineering, analytics, and stakeholder engagement.
Supports modern data platforms and analytics for operational and strategic needs.
Responsibilities
- Lead analytical data models for reporting, analytics, AI, and business intelligence.
- Translate stakeholder and business-process needs into data structures and models.
- Develop transformation standards across Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse, and related technologies.
- Ensure data quality, consistency, interoperability, and reuse.
- Collaborate with data engineers, data scientists, and analysts on platform and analytics alignment.
- Improve modelling, transformation, and analytics engineering practices.
- Maintain solution documentation and support metadata discoverability and governance.
- Resolve pipeline and model issues and implement preventative measures and optimizations.
- Provide technical leadership, guidance, and best-practice development across teams.
Candidate requirements
- Experience designing and optimizing complex cloud-based data models.
- Strong experience with Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse Analytics, or equivalent platforms.
- Experience with Python and SQL.
- Knowledge of data transformation, modelling, and metadata management.
- Ability to balance technical design with business and stakeholder needs.
- Strong communication skills, including explaining technical concepts clearly.
- Government or regulated-environment experience and analytics support experience are sought; the source does not state these as mandatory.
- Candidates may come from data engineering, analytics, or BI backgrounds.
Pay and contract
- Salary range is £49,452–£62,699, with separate national and London ranges.
- Contract type: permanent.
- Working pattern: full-time with flexible working.
- Civil Service Pension with stated employer contribution of 28.97%.
Locations
- The posting lists Cardiff, Glasgow, and London as locations.
About Ofgem
Ofgem describes its role as protecting consumers and enabling a secure, fair, and sustainable UK energy future.
The organization is on a transformation journey to develop modern data platforms and analytical capabilities.
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