Associate Data Analyst Apprentice Remote
Job description
Employment Type: Full time (37.5 hours per week), fixed term
Starting Salary: £22,000
The Difference You'll Make
The Associate Data Analyst Apprentice is a new role and an exciting opportunity for someone who has a keen interest in data and a willingness to learn. Reporting to the Lead Data Analyst, you will be a key part of the thriving Technology and Data function that is growing at a good rate.
You’ll be working with various departments around the business to analyse current processes and reporting needs, gather requirements, create reports and dashboards, and identify additional opportunities for business intelligence to help deliver business and organisation objectives.
You will help lead on innovation and development whilst promoting, maintaining, and delivering best practice in the business intelligence field.
The role requires a diligent and enthusiastic individual, with ambition to succeed in an fast paced environment, you should have the flexibility to work and learn both in a team as well as under your own initiative.
Apprenticeship Overview:
Expected duration: 21 Months
Apprenticeship level: Advanced (Level 3) / Higher (Level 4)
Programme: Data Technician / Data Analyst
During this apprenticeship, you will follow a fully supported training programme with LearnTech, delivered through combined weekly remote classroom-based training, workplace assessment/training and online learning working towards completing the Data Technician / Data Analyst standard.
The training covers the following core occupational duties:
https://www.instituteforapprenticeships.org/apprenticeship-standards/data-technician-v1-0
The Team You'll Join
The established and growing Technology & Data team, includes functions such as Platforms, Mobile Apps, Data & BI Reporting, as well as Infrastructure. Resource is in-shore, near-shore and off-shore and includes architects, developers, QA testers and data analysts. Agile Scrum, Feature & Bug tracking systems, and communication tools (Teams) are used for planning, as well as daily videocalls. The stack comprises AWS (Kubernetes), Azure, MySQL, MS-SQL, Ruby on Rails, React, React Native, Swift, Kotlin, .net and HTML/JS/CSS amongst others. Our QA/Testing processes across our Web and mobile offering include manual (primarily) and automated (secondarily) testing with software such as Cypress, Postman, JMeter.
The Vivup technology offering includes a fully-custom, responsive Web platform, a React Native mobile app, and a Recognition & Reward offering delivered through a responsive Web platform, as well as using native iOS and Android Apps. Our partners include Currys, John Lewis, WeGift, as well as Tusker, through custom integrations (API, SSO, etc). Our data environment is mature, primarily on Power BI, and with various internal and external data-sources.
Who we’re looking for, accountabilities and responsibilities:
- Gain a knowledge of business opportunities and challenges and use Business Intelligence as a mechanism to visualise insights to drive decisions.
- Working as part of a team, build dashboards, reports and PowerPoints for visual presentation and analysis.
- Collaborate with business users to ensure you are delivering the insights they need
- Adhere to our governance structure, standards, and best practice to manage the processes, technology, data for visualisation applications and identify and assess data quality issues.
- Adopt best practice development methodologies and approach with focus on delivering efficiency, performance and quality solutions adhering to data protection law.
- Provide user training on the Business Intelligence reporting platforms.
- Record any issues, new reports and change requests using the company monitoring framework.
- Troubleshooting queries and issues that arise and resolve them in a timely manner.
- Maintain and support the data storage and analytics platforms.
- Develop and update technical documentation.
- Help administer and develop other systems as required.
A bit about you, skills and experience:
It is a requirement to have five GCSE 9-4 grades or equivalent (including English and Maths) to apply for this type of apprenticeship. If you do not have these grades but have completed numeracy and literacy Key Skills/Functional Skills at level two you may also apply for these apprenticeships.
Technical Skills
- Good understanding of MS Office, MS Teams, SharePoint, and PowerPoint.
- An aptitude in problem solving, being curious in finding solutions with a desire to learn from the process
- Proficient in Microsoft Office products including ability to use lookups, pivot tables and multiple variable formulas in Excel.
- Familiar with data visualisation such as patterns, trends and correlations.
- Highly organised approach to work, using systems and basic project planning techniques to deliver.
- Ability to work independently and manage multiple task assignments.
- Good communication skills, able to talk fluidly about technical matters to non-technical audiences.
- Common sense/logical approach to mathematical reasoning.
Non-Technical Skills
- An excellent team player, excited by collaborating with team members and the business more broadly.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Good problem-solving skills.
- Is able to build relationships and rapport with all levels of the business.
- Has an Analytical / Logical mindset.
Below are some of the skills that you will learn and develop with Vivup, if you have some exposure to these great, however, we will be working closely with you to expand the following skill set:
- Experience with Process Management
- Experience with writing code in SQL/R/Python
- Experience with BI tools (Power BI or Similar) and Machine Learning
- Understanding of Microsoft SQL data modelling.
- Third party vendor and customer management experience.
- Experience using Power BI or any other Business Intelligence tools.
- Experience using Excel as a complement to a Business Intelligence platform.
- Good understanding of concepts related to ETL (extract transform load), data warehousing and data mining.
- Understanding of Automation, using a mix of Code, Low code and No Code solutions (Microsoft Flow)
You must meet the following eligibility criteria to apply for the role:
- Have been a UK/EEA resident for the last 3 years
- Hold valid residency status
- Have the right to work in the UK
Job Types: Full-time, Apprenticeship
Salary: From £22,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Company pension
- Gym membership
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Work Location: Remote
