Junior Data Analyst

Vodafone Group; Newbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading telecommunications company in Newbury is looking for an MLOps Junior Data Analyst to utilize data insights for decision making and support AI use cases. The role involves data collection, developing data pipelines, and working as part of an Agile team. Ideal candidates will have SQL and Python experience along with a strong knack for problem-solving and data visualization.

Benefits

Yearly bonus: 5%

Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays

Private medical and dental

Additional discounts: gym, cinema

Qualifications

• Experience with data visualization and predictive analytics.
• 1-2 years of SQL experience.
• Experience with Python libraries like NumPy and Pandas.

Responsibilities

• Utilize data insight for data-driven decision making.
• Assist in designing, developing, and optimizing data pipelines.
• Support software solutions in an Agile team.

Skills

Data structures

SQL

Data visualization

Python

Creative problem-solving

Tools

Teradata

Tableau

PowerBI

Job description

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

What you’ll do

The MLOps Junior Data Analyst utilises data insight and visualisation to enable data driven decision making, while contributing to the design, development, optimisation and ongoing management of Vodafone’s Automation and AI Use Cases.

• Data collection, preparation, conversion, and optimisation for AI and ML use cases, of new and existing data sources.
• Translating complex datasets into key strategic insight enabling powerful data driven capabilities, to the business.
• Assist in the End-to-end design, development and implementation of data pipelines to enable AI and Machine Learning, enhancements, and algorithms, and select appropriate KPIs to identify high-performance models.
• Support the delivery of software solutions as part of an Agile team.
• Support use case business requirements gathering and establish metrics to measure benefit and success criteria
• Identify new analytics trends and opportunities to drive the innovation agenda across countries.
• Identify new data sources and evaluate emerging technologies for data discovery usage.
• Assists with investigations in case of incidents, establish root cause analysis to ensure/propose solutions to fix the identified issues.
• Contributes to the evaluation of new technologies or applications to adopt them within the organization (POC – proof of concept).

Who you are

Core skills:

• Proven experience with field specific data structures (lists, dictionaries, dataframes, series, etc).
• Proven SQL experience 1-2 years
• Datawarehouse and visualisation experience: Teradata, Tableau/PowerBI
• Strong creativity, problem-solving skills, and proven experience with data visualisation to enable data driven decision making.
• Proven experience with data visualisation, predictive analytics and forecasting using Python, including but not limited to, libraries: NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, Seaborn, Sci-Kit Learn

Nice to have technical qualifications:

• Agile Practitioner, Scrum, Safe knowledge, or certification preferred.
• First-hand experience utilising Large Language Models and Natural Language Processing in Python.
• International experience desirable (working internationally and / or working with global solutions)
• Data Engineering and Data Analytics on Cloud platforms GCP and/or AWS and/or Azure

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What's in it for you

• Yearly bonus: 5%
• Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
• Charity days: 5 days/year
• Maternity leave: 52 weeks: the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay
• Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
• Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
• Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people's lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn't a concept; it's lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You'll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. ;We're committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to https://careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/ for guidance.

Together we can.