Data Analyst: Insightful Dashboards & SQL Specialist

Jacobs; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Pension and benefits package

Professional development and mentoring

Training and certifications

Global employer with diverse projects

Job summary

Jacobs is seeking a Data Analyst to join the Data & Digital team in the UK. You will turn data into actionable insights, working with stakeholders across government, defence and regulated environments to support decision-making and reporting across multiple sources.

You will build dashboards, run complex SQL queries and help maintain performance metrics while collaborating with agile delivery teams to improve reporting and analytics capabilities.

Qualifications

• Strong SQL skills, including joins, filtering, aggregation and data validation techniques.
• Experience creating dashboards and reports using Power BI, Tableau or equivalent visualization tools.
• Advanced Excel skills for analysis, reporting and data manipulation.
• Experience cleansing, reconciling and validating data from multiple sources.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify trends, root causes and actionable insights.
• Ability to communicate analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience managing assigned tasks, documenting approaches and delivering to agreed deadlines.
• Eligibility for SC Clearance

Responsibilities

• Gather, cleanse, validate and transform data from multiple sources to support reporting and analysis requirements.
• Create, develop and maintain reports, dashboards and visualisations using Power BI, Tableau or equivalent tools.
• Apply analytical techniques to identify trends, patterns, anomalies and opportunities for improvement.
• Produce regular and ad hoc analysis to answer business questions and support decision-making.
• Write efficient SQL queries to extract, manipulate, validate and analyse data from structured and semi-structured sources.
• Support the creation and maintenance of performance measures, KPIs and management information reporting.
• Document analytical methodologies, assumptions, calculations, definitions and data sources.
• Present findings and recommendations clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Support data quality, governance and information management activities to ensure trusted reporting.
• Work within agile, multidisciplinary delivery teams to deliver analytical outputs.
• Identify opportunities to improve reporting, processes and analytical capabilities.
• Communicate progress, risks and insights effectively with project teams, stakeholders and clients

Skills

SQL

Dashboards

Analytical thinking

Communication

Task management

SC Clearance eligibility

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Excel

Job description

Jacobs is seeking a Data Analyst to join the Data & Digital team in the UK. You will turn data into actionable insights, working with stakeholders across government, defence and regulated environments to support decision-making and reporting across multiple sources.

You will build dashboards, run complex SQL queries and help maintain performance metrics while collaborating with agile delivery teams to improve reporting and analytics capabilities.