Senior Data Analyst - 9 Month FTC
Role Overview
Nine-month fixed-term role backfilling permanent Data team capacity committed to an enterprise and corporate systems integration project.
The role reduces the Change backlog by completing analysis, writing specifications, and delivering data models, reporting, and data outputs.
The role acts as a translation layer between the business, Change, and the Data team.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Nine-month fixed-term role backfilling permanent Data team capacity committed to an enterprise and corporate systems integration project.
The role reduces the Change backlog by completing analysis, writing specifications, and delivering data models, reporting, and data outputs.
The role acts as a translation layer between the business, Change, and the Data team.
Responsibilities
- Own, triage, size, prioritise, and complete the Change and reporting backlog.
- Translate business requirements into technical specifications and explain data constraints and options to Change.
- Complete source profiling, mapping, model design, and non-functional requirements analysis for larger engineering work.
- Build, test, and release reports, semantic models, and data extracts using SQL, Power BI, and Microsoft Fabric.
- Maintain backlog metrics and report progress to the Data Lead, Data Product Owner, and Change stakeholders.
- Validate outputs, apply definition and reconciliation standards, and resolve discrepancies.
- Triage business-as-usual and ad-hoc data requests while protecting delivery time.
- Support analysts and developers through reviews and knowledge sharing.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies and improve team working practices.
- Document delivered work, decisions, and remaining backlog for handover.
Key skills and experience
- Strong SQL skills for complex analysis, query optimisation, and reconciliation across systems.
- Experience building semantic models, DAX measures, and Power BI reports for senior stakeholders.
- Practical Microsoft Fabric experience, including Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Pipelines, notebooks, and semantic models, or equivalent cloud data platform experience.
- Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications that data engineers can build from.
- Experience owning and reducing a backlog, sizing work, prioritising with stakeholders, and delivering to committed dates.
- Confidence working with Change, operations, and senior stakeholders.
- Understanding of data governance, definitions, lineage, reconciliation, and data protection.
- Ability to guide analysts and developers through review and knowledge sharing.
- Experience in financial services, platforms, or another regulated environment is desirable.
- Experience working in an Agile delivery environment.
Contract term
- The role is a nine-month fixed-term contract.
Workplace
- The source describes the role as remote.
About Nucleus
Nucleus Group Services helps make retirement more rewarding and emphasises colleagues, advisers, customers, partnership, and collaboration.
About Nucleus Financial
UK retirement-focused adviser platform group providing retirement products, wealth-management software, and pension administration services.
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