Data Engineer/Analyst (3774) Cambridgeshire
Job description
Salary: £36,700-£47,700
Location: Cambridge, Hybrid (2-3 days per week in the office may be required)
Contract: Full time, permanent, 35 hours per week
Empowering Next-Gen Learning: Unleash Your Analytical Prowess in Shaping Future Digital Assessment
If you are passionate about leveraging data to fuel innovation and possess a keen eye for ensuring data quality, accuracy, and relevance, we invite you to join our Multi-Level-Testing (MLT) team as a Data Engineer/Analyst.
We are Cambridge University Press & Assessment, a world-leading academic publisher and assessment organisation and a proud part of the University of Cambridge.
About the role
As the Data Engineer/Analyst, you will be a key member of the MLT team, building data pipelines and providing data engineering services to the wider team.
You will assess business needs and make recommendations for designing or improving data flows which de-risk operations and increase efficiencies.
You'll also:
- Design and develop data stores, catalogues, flows, systems, and validation mechanisms.
- Conduct, interpret and present the findings of statistical analyses to monitor the performance and validity of products, malpractice, grading, and marking approaches.
- Use data visualization to communicate the relevant findings from analyses or product evaluations to the wider MLT team, informing the monitoring and continuous improvement of MLT products.
- Work with data engineers, data analysts, data scientists and psychometricians across the business to understand both where data is held and the quantity and quality of that data. Inform and advise the MLT team on decisions about what types of data are accessible and what analyses are feasible and appropriate.
- Understand the importance of quality management and data stewardship, in order to meet all customer, regulatory, recognition and GDPR requirements.
About you
As the Data Engineer/Analyst, you will have a strong quantitative aptitude, capable of effectively navigating through extensive datasets while maintaining a keen eye detail. Your adept interpersonal skills will enable seamless collaboration at all levels, both internally and externally.
You will excel at extracting data from diverse sources and skilfully merging them into structured datasets. Your ability to tackle intricate and innovative data challenges, even in the absence of established protocols will set you apart.
More About You
- Ability to code in SAS, Python or SQL
- Experience applying agile principles and working practices to projects
- Highly numerate
- Experience in assessment and educational measurement
If you would like to know more about this opportunity and what will make you successful, please see the full job description attached to the bottom of this vacancy on our careers site.
Rewards and benefits
We will support you to be at your best in work and to live well outside of it. In addition to competitive salaries, we offer a world-class, flexible rewards package, featuring family-friendly and planet-friendly benefits including:
- 28 days annual leave plus bank holidays
- Private medical and Permanent Health Insurance
- Discretionary annual bonus
- Group personal pension scheme
- Life assurance up to 4 x annual salary
- Green travel schemes
We are a hybrid working organisation, and we offer a range of flexible working options from day one. We expect most hybrid-working colleagues to spend 40-60% of their time at their dedicated office or location. We will also consider other work arrangements if you wish to work more flexibly or require adjustments due to a disability.
Ready to pursue your potential? Apply now.
We review applications on an ongoing basis, with a closing date for all applications being 3rd September 2023 and interviews are scheduled to take place on w/c 11th September 2023.
Please note that successful applicants will be subject to satisfactory background checks including DBS due to working in a regulated industry.
Why join us
Joining us is your opportunity to pursue potential. You'll belong to a collaborative team that's exploring new and better ways to serve students, teachers and researchers across the globe – for the benefit of individuals, society and the world. Sharing our mission will inspire your own growth, development and progress, in an environment which embraces difference, change and aspiration.
We believe better outcomes come through diversity of thought, background and approach. We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds and communities, actively seeking to employ people from a wide range of different communities.
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