Data Product Analyst

Platform Housing Group; Worcester; Remote; GBP 41,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

28 days annual leave + bank holidays

Health Cash Plan

Pension scheme

Learning & Development opportunities

Employee rewards & discounts

Wellbeing hub

Job summary

Platform Housing Group is seeking a Data Product Analyst on a two-year fixed-term contract to lead the design, development and implementation of data products that deliver actionable insights, enabling informed decisions across the organisation.

Role involves requirements gathering, data modelling, ETL, and delivery within an Agile framework, using Power BI, Synapse and Fabric. Travel to Worcester/Solihull offices as required; primarily home-based.

Qualifications

• Experience in data quality, data analysis, or data governance in regulated environments.
• Design and implement data products using Power BI, Synapse, and DAX.
• Knowledge of data modelling, ETL processes, and data governance principles.
• Ability to identify issues and risks in BI development and escalate when needed.
• Ability to extract, manipulate, visualize, and model large datasets.
• Lead analytics projects and influence decision-making at senior levels.
• Experience with consumer-level data for analysis, reporting, or marketing.
• Creation of reports, dashboards, and data visualizations for stakeholders.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills for stakeholder engagement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design, development and delivery of data products.
• Work across the full lifecycle from requirements gathering to delivery and support.
• Operate within an Agile environment with iterative improvements.
• Utilise Power BI, Synapse and Fabric to enable data-driven insights.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver actionable insights.

Skills

Data analysis

Data governance

Data modelling

ETL processes

Lead analytics projects

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Python

SQL

DAX

Power BI

consumer-level data analysis

Tools

Power BI

Synapse

Fabric

DAX

SQL

Python

Job description

Data Product Analyst
2-Year Fixed Term Contract, Full Time
£40,943 - £45,492 depending on experience
Home based (with occasional travel to Worcester/Solihull office as required)

Are you passionate about data and would love to use your technical analytical skills to really make a difference and help change people's lives?

We're currently looking for a Data Product Analyst to join our brilliant IT team on a two-year fixed term contract, to lead the design, development, and implementation of data products that deliver actionable insights, enabling the organisation to make informed decisions.

As our Data Product Analyst you'll work across the full lifecycle of data product development, from initial requirements gathering and design through to delivery and support. Operating within an Agile environment, they will adopt an iterative approach, ensuring continuous improvement and timely delivery of high-quality solutions.

This role is critical in advancing the use of cutting-edge data platforms such as Power BI, Synapse, and Fabric, leveraging modern development languages including DAX, SQL, and Python, while fostering a data-driven culture across the organisation.

What are we looking for?

• Experience in a data quality, data analysis, or data governance role, ideally within a complex or regulated environment, experience within social housing is preferable.
• Proven experience in designing and implementing data products using Power BI, Synapse, and DAX.
• Strong knowledge of data modelling, ETL processes, and data governance principles.
• Be able to identify issues and risks within BI development activities, troubleshooting, resolving and escalating where appropriate.
• Strong ability to extract, manipulate, visualize, and model large datasets.
• Demonstrated ability to lead analytics projects and influence decision-making at a level.
• Experience with consumer-level data for the purposes of analysis, reporting, or marketing
• Demonstrated experience in the creation of reports, dashboards, and data visualizations for the effective communication of insights and findings to a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills are essential, enabling the analyst to build effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels and clearly convey complex concepts.
• Knowledge of advanced analytics techniques and Python is desirable

Whilst this role is predominantly home-based, there will be regular travel to Group offices and other locations, including Birmingham Business Park Solihull and Central Park, Worcester, so flexibility will be required.

Some of the great benefits we can offer you:

• 28 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) with the opportunity to buy and sell leave
• Family friendly policies including generous Paternity, Maternity, Shared Parental and Adoption leave plus 3 days paid Urgent Domestic Leave
• Medicash membership for all employees which includes access to an employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership and exclusive discounts
• Health Cash Plan worth up to £1700 p/a with cashback for dental, optical, physio and complementary therapies and more
• Pension scheme with minimum employee contributions of up to 3% and Platform will contribute up to 12% (inclusive of life assurance and dependent on employee contributions)
• Learning and Development opportunities
• Employee reward and recognition scheme with wellbeing hub and discount from a wide range of retailers

For more details about this position, please refer to the attached job description. If you'd like further information about the role, please email [e-mail]

1st stage interviews will be scheduled to take place via MS Teams on 9th November, with 2nd stage interviews to be held in person on the 12th November at our Worcester office.

We encourage early applications, as we may close the advert ahead of the advertised closing date if we receive a high volume of interest.