Senior Data Analyst

About The Role
Hippo Digital is recruiting for a Senior Data Analyst to join our Hippo Herd. Senior Data Analysts work in multi-disciplinary teams that build, support & maintain User-Centred digital solutions that offer real value and work for everyone.

Hippo’s Senior Data Analysts are involved in creating data specific solutions to ensure we have the right information and data to make informed decisions. Stakeholder engagement is key and collaborating within your hippo squad and the wider engineering community is fundamental.

Your role in a nutshell:

• Develop and implement data specific solutions
• Analyse data using statistical techniques and provide reports and dashboards
• Develop and maintain data pipelines
• Handling and mining of large, diverse data sets with an ability to work with both structured and unstructured data.
• Identity, analyse and interpret trends/patterns in complex data sets
• Regular engagement/collaboration with internal/external stakeholders
• Be an advocate of data across the wider engineering community

Skills and experience that you need

• A proven track record as a data analyst with experience of creating and developing complex data solutions
• Skilled in utilising and maintaining data pipelines including working with technologies such as Kafka Snowflake, Databricks, Tableau, Spark, Splunk! And Power BI
• Skilled in working in cloud based environments – AWS, Azure, Google Cloud
• Skilled in data cleansing, analysis and visualisation
• Experience of working with large complex data warehouses
• Proficiency in SQL and one or more of the following languages: R, Python, Scala
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to illicit client requirements
• Excellent collaboration skills and be a data advocate across the wider engineering & data team
• Mentoring and coaching skills with a passion for up skilling junior analysts
• GOV/Consultancy sector experience would be highly desirable

In addition to your salary you will receive:

• Contributory pension scheme (Hippo 6% with employee contributions of 2%)
• 25 days holiday plus UK public holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of perks and discounts
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Flexible benefits scheme with options of:
• private health cover
• private dental cover
• additional company pension contributions
• additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
• wellbeing contribution
• charity contributions

Hi, we’re Hippo!
We’re a digital service design consultancy that works closely with our clients to create digital products and services that work for everyone. Since our inception, we have quickly established ourselves as a leading supplier of digital leaders, service design teams and delivery expertise. We support large-scale digital transformation programmes to public and private sector organisations looking to truly embrace digital services to innovate and evolve. We aspire to add value and leave a lasting benefit within those institutes. Our philosophy is to ensure the user is at the core of everything we do, research, design and deliver. Collaborating with us means embracing a digital-first strategy with people first design, which will genuinely create lasting change and positive impact.

Our Hippo offices are in Leeds, Coventry and Manchester. However, we invite candidates to apply from anywhere in the UK who can be flexible regarding location. We offer a relocation support package of up to £8k to help cover the cost of moving somewhere within commuting distance of one of our locations. Please note that due to the nature of the business, we may also request that you work from client locations or work from home.

How Hippo Digital Embraces Diversity & Equal Opportunity
Hippo Digital is committed to diversity, equality and inclusion. For us, diversity and inclusion are not just tick-boxing activities but a chance to make meaningful long-term change. A diverse workforce means that we can unlock our ability to innovate, be creative, be better problem solvers and provide an inclusive environment for everyone. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply.

Job Type: Permanent

Salary: £53,000.00-£75,000.00 per year