Analytics Engineer

Forge Holiday Group Ltd; Chester; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company as an Analytics Engineer where you'll play a crucial role in delivering robust, efficient data models across various teams. This position offers growth opportunities within a supportive environment, promoting communication and collaboration to empower data-driven decision making.

Benefits

Annual STIP Company-wide Bonus

33 days annual leave including bank holidays

Birthday off

Two paid Volunteering Days

Enhanced Parental leave

Health Cash Plan

Access to gym at Chester HQ

Employee Savings Scheme

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a numerate discipline or equivalent analytical apprenticeship.
• Experience with SQL and modern data stack tools.
• Strong ability to communicate stakeholder needs.

Responsibilities

• Provide clean, tested, transformed and modeled data for end users.
• Deliver impactful data products and dashboards with limited senior support.
• Investigate and correct data quality issues.

Skills

SQL

ETL/ELT processes

Python

Data visualization

Data storytelling

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a numerate discipline

Tools

SQL Server

Tableau

Power BI

MS Fabric

Job description

Opportunity to Forge your growth as Analytics Engineer at Forge Holiday Group!

• Salary: Circa £45,000 per annum
• Work Days & Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am to 5:30pm, 37.5 hours per week
• Working Policy: Flexible hybrid-working policy, with a minimum of two days a week from our Chester head office
• Team: Data and Analytics
• Reports to: Lead Analytics Engineer

About Us
The Forge Holiday Group encompasses Sykes Holiday Cottages, Forest Holidays, UKcaravans4hire and Bachcare in New Zealand. We unite under four core company values that serve as the foundation of everything we do: Being One Team, Owning It, Communicating Honestly. Learning, Growing, and Innovating. These values ensure we remain true to our original ethos and ensure we stay true to our Customers, Owners and Colleagues alike.

About the Analytics Engineer Role:
As Analytics Engineer, your role will be pivotal in driving the delivery of analytics across the Forge Holiday Group. Reporting to a Lead Analytics Engineer, you will be responsible for bringing robust, efficient, scalable and integrated data models & products to life.

You will speak the language of business teams and technical teams, be able to translate data insights and analysis needs into models powered by the Data Platform. You will ensure data is ingested, transformed, scheduled and presented to empower the business to make data driven decisions.

You will be a trusted advisor to the business on questions about data. This position is best suited for a dynamic individual with a strong background in analytics, eager to contribute to a high-performing team's success.

Your Responsibilities:
We are entering the next exciting phase of our technical growth which will see our newest Analytics Engineer:

• Provide clean, tested, transformed and modelled data in a way that empowers end users.
• Deliver impactful data products and dashboards with limited senior support, using tools such as SQL, Power BI, MS Fabric, Tableau.
• Enhance and maintain existing data products and data pipelines using the appropriate technologies.
• Apply software engineering best practices like version control and CI/CD to the analytics code base.
• Working with the broader analytics and data science teams to deliver data projects and models on time, to a high specification.
• Being able to communicate effectively with stakeholders to share and promote the good use of data.
• Embed data visualization best practices, including data storytelling, ensuring insights are impactful and actionable.
• Contribute to the creation of squad initiatives, aligning them with business goals.
• Investigate and correct data quality issues.

Skills and Qualifications:
We are looking for those who can share in our company goals, values and ethos, who can grow alongside us and whose skills can aid our ongoing success!

By Being One Team, Owning it, Communicating Honestly and showcasing a devotion to Learning, Growing and Innovating, we remain true to our original ethos and ensure we stay true to our Customers, Owners and Colleagues alike.

Essential Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in a numerate discipline or an equivalent analytical apprenticeship
• Strong proficiency in SQL
• Good understanding of ETL/ELT processes
• Exposure to Python or any other object-oriented programming languages
• Experience with modern data stack tools and cloud-based data warehouses like MS Fabric, Snowflake, Databricks, Teradata or AWS
• Experience in designing and constructing effective reports and dashboards that transform data into actionable insights with Tableau or Power BI
• Proven ability to manage work within set deadlines and effectively communicate progress
• Ability to understand stakeholder needs and a strong communicator.

Nice to have:

• The ideal candidate will have experience using Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory or MS Fabric to perform ETL tasks and manage semantic layers
• Commercial awareness, ideally within the holiday lettings or travel and tourism sectors
• Experience in an e-Commerce environment working with website / mobile performance analytics
• Experience in an agile/scrum development environment
• Experience using JIRA and Bitbucket or GitHub

Other Useful Experience:

• Experience with Apache Kafka (or any other data streaming technologies)
• Experience with AWS products (S3, Athena, etc)
• Experience with SQL Server data warehousing (SQL Server, SSIS and SSAS).

Forge Holiday Groups Company Benefits

• Annual STIP Company-wide Bonus Scheme offering up to an additional 10% of your salary through our performance-based bonus program
• 33 days of annual leave including bank holidays, plus up to 5 extra days with long service
• A day off to celebrate your Birthday
• Two paid Volunteering Days off annually
• One of only 1000 BCORP-certified companies in the UK
• Enhanced Parental leave (24 weeks maternity, 3 weeks paternity at 100% pay)
• Exclusive discounts on stays for you, family and friends
• Discounts and offers with a focus on your overall wellbeing
• Health Cash Plan starting April 2025
• Training & Development programs to set you up for success
• 24/7 mental health support and initiatives
• Access to the gym at our Chester HQ
• Chester HQ has on-site parking and is close to Chester train station
• Employee Savings Scheme transferring directly from your salary
• Long Service Awards
• Hybrid working for selected roles.

Diversity and Inclusion:
We encourage and welcome our people to bring their authentic and best selves to work every day. We know the power that comes from different ideas, backgrounds and perspectives. We recognise the role diversity plays in achieving our goals as a business. We actively welcome applications from as wide a range of backgrounds as possible. If you need any particular support or accommodations as part of your application process, please get in touch - our recruitment team are happy to help.

Apply now to be a part of our inclusive and supportive work environment, where you'll find excellent opportunities for career progression and personal development!