Analytics Engineer

Tameside Council; Greater Manchester; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

Tameside Council is looking for an experienced Analytics Engineer to establish a Data Engineering and BI Development function. In this role, you'll design and maintain scalable data pipelines, enhancing public services through data-driven decisions. This position offers the opportunity to make a significant impact while building your professional skills in a modern data infrastructure environment.

Qualifications

• Experienced data professional with a grounding in Data Engineering or BI Development.
• Knowledge of automating data flows and building dashboards.
• Good analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines.
• Support data-driven decision-making and enhance public services.
• Collaborate with ICT and Information Governance teams.

Skills

Data Engineering

BI Development

SQL

Python

Data Analysis

Analytical Skills

Problem Solving

Communication

Education

Degree in Data Science or related field

Job description

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: Grade I. Scale 35 - £44,711 to Scale 37 - £46,731

Hours Per Week: 36hours

Base Location: Tameside One

Assessment Date: w/c 30th June 2025

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Analytics Engineer to help establish a Data Engineering and BI Development function here at Tameside. The role will support our drive towards data-driven decision making and enhanced public services.

You will play a key role in designing, building, and maintaining scalable data pipelines within Microsoft's cutting-edge Fabric environment, integrating disparate datasets, and enabling cross-cut analytics and reporting for various local government functions via Power BI.

The job role covers the full range of data relevant to Local Government, from Social Care case management systems, geospatial information and publicly available datasets and more. It will also play a key part in developing our wider data strategy and maximising the investments being made across our digital infrastructure.

The role will sit within a newly established Data Integration Team as part of the council's Business Intelligence Service, alongside our Systems and Analytics functions. Close links with our ICT and Information Governance teams will also be required.

This is an exciting opportunity to join Tameside Council at the start of its journey to adopting a modern data infrastructure. As much of the work will be 'green field', you will be empowered to make significant progress and impact in a short space of time and build your skills and knowledge exponentially in the process.

About You

You will be an experienced Data professional, with a solid grounding in Data Engineering or BI Development or have worked as a Data Analyst with a knack for the technical side of the role.

If you've got knowledge and experience of standardising and automating data flows and reports, building dashboards that turn complex data into actionable intelligence and using data-centric coding languages like SQL and/or Python, that's great. If you've done those things in a Local Government setting or in a modern PAAS or SAAS Data Platform, that's even better.

You will have good analytical and problem-solving skills, strong technical knowledge, organisational skills and an ability to plan and deliver timely outcomes whilst dealing with multiple enquiries and tasks, excellent written and verbal communication skills, good numerical skills and ability to conduct data and systems analysis and be capable of building relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders.

About Us

At Tameside, we are committed to ensuring all our Citizens lead long, fulfilling and healthy lives. We are committed to supporting economic growth, providing high quality health and care services, protecting our most vulnerable and creating strong and supportive, self-sufficient communities.

We recognise that our people drive our success and enable the organisation to deliver on its vision, purpose and priorities, and that our people are our most important resource and asset. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours, and are at the heart of everything that we do; and we understand that how we do things is just as important as what we do. We pride ourselves on living by our STRIVE values of Support, Trust, Respect, Integrity, Value Diversity and Engage. Our values underpin our practice and behaviours and are at the heart of everything that we do. How we do things are just as important as what we do.

Our employees' skills, experience and knowledge are essential to our success along with their happiness, wellbeing, commitment, enthusiasm and motivation to be the best they can be.

Unfortunately, at this time we are not able to offer sponsorship.

We are committed to developing a culture which respects individuals, appreciates difference and allows everyone regardless of background to reach their full potential. We are proud to be an accredited disability confident employer. Reasonable Adjustments will be considered in accordance with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to the Job Role Criteria.

Our rewards and benefits package can be viewed here

For further information about this role please contact the recruiting manager Dan Hodgson on 0161 342 3546 or [e-mail]