Junior Digital Analyst (Technical)

Polka Dot Data Ltd; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 25,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Polka Dot Data Ltd. is seeking a Junior Digital Analyst to support complex analytics solutions. You will help fire tracking pixels in a consent-compliant, well-optimised way and work with SQL to create data tables for dashboards.

You’ll collaborate on data layer specs, liaise with vendors, and troubleshoot data collection across diverse CMS back ends, while developing your technical execution and problem-solving skills in a small agency setting.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Google Analytics 4 and GTM functionality (Or Adobe / equivalent).
• Knowledge of GTM Client Side & Server-Side Tracking.
• Experience with debugging using Chrome Developer Tools.
• Familiarity with Staging/UAT testing, website development and CMS platforms.
• Knowledge of BigQuery, SQL, Data Warehouses or similar would be beneficial.
• Knowledge of Consent Management Platform and Consent-Compliant Tracking.
• Some knowledge of Data Studio, Power BI or Tableau may be beneficial but not essential.
• Know when and how to utilise AI to support your daily work, or be willing to learn.
• Pro-active problem solving, identifying risks on your team’s projects.
• Ability to support the team and clients to solve complex problems.

Responsibilities

• Turn the tracking plan into a detailed Data Layer specification for client developers.
• Liaise with 3rd party tracking vendors to implement their tracking requirements when required.
• Test the tags and code implementation to ensure the correct data is collected in Google Analytics across a wide range of website back end systems (CMS’).
• Diagnose and troubleshoot problems to resolve issues either proactively or when clients get in touch with concerns.
• Provide on-going technical analytics support to the rest of the team as part of ongoing client support.
• Create SQL code to extract data into Big Query tables to use in reporting and dashboard platforms.
• Be able to explain to the team what the next steps are and how they can best support our work, as well as ensuring they understand what we are working on.
• Know when to raise issues to your manager, or the rest of the team where appropriate.
• Being a point of contact for clients when team members are unavailable or need additional support in technical areas.

Skills

GA4

GTM

SQL

BigQuery

Data Studio

Power BI

Tableau

Data Layer

Chrome DevTools

Tools

Chrome DevTools

Google Tag Manager

Job description

For the last 10 years, we’ve been helping many medium to large businesses change the way they collect and analyse their website data to achieve big results. At this point in our journey, we are looking to expand our client base and the velocity of work we are able to deliver by growing our team and ensuring we have the best minds possible to help us to achieve this.

Your role

We’re looking for a Junior Digital Analyst with a technical background to support our team in delivering complex analytics solutions for clients. Someone who is enthusiastic about putting their coding skills to work to fire tracking pixels in a consent compliant well optimised way, in order to help businesses grow. You might be enthusiastic about coding, web scraping, Data Layer building, managing tags in Google Tag Manager or using SQL to create beautiful data tables.

We are looking for someone with a strong interest in technical execution of tasks, problem-solving, and working proactively to identify issues and risks in advance, and takes pride in completing high-quality analytics tracking implementations and data tables.

We’re looking for someone who loves the technical side of life but is also practical enough to help their team and clients find a pragmatic, if not perfect, solution; who is passionate about being part of a growing industry and wants to help businesses make better use of their data.

Our clients cover many different industries, so you’ll need to be adaptable and thrive on problem-solving too. And the great thing is that as part of such a small team (<10 people!) you get to feel the rewards of making a massive difference to the business with everything you do. We like to think of ourselves as the friendliest Analytics Agency in the UK.

Your role in brief

• Turn the tracking plan into a detailed Data Layer specification for client developers
• Liaise with 3rd party tracking vendors to implement their tracking requirements when required
• Test the tags and code implementation to ensure the correct data is collected in Google Analytics across a wide range of website back end systems (CMS’).
• Diagnose and troubleshoot problems to resolve issues either proactively or when clients get in touch with concerns
• Provide on-going technical analytics support to the rest of the team as part o f ongoing client support
• Create SQL code to extract data into Big Query tables to use in reporting and dashboard platforms
• Be able to explain to the team what the next steps are and how they can best support our work, as well as ensuring they understand what we are working on
• Know when to raise issues to your manager, or the rest of the team where appropriate
• Being a point of contact for clients when team members are unavailable or need additional support in technical areas

OPTIONAL BUT BENEFICIAL

• To liaise with clients’ marketing teams over their data and reporting requirements to help build a tracking plan detailing events, parameters and variables required
• Be able to work in Google Analytics settings, configurations and report customisations as this can be a highly beneficial cross over skill for this role

Your knowledge and skills

• Knowledge of Google Analytics 4 and GTM functionality (Or Adobe / equivalent)
• Knowledge of GTM Client Side & Server-Side Tracking
• Experience with debugging using Chrome Developer Tools
• Familiarity with Staging/UAT testing, website development and CMS platforms
• Knowledge of BigQuery, SQL, Data Warehouses or similar would be beneficial
• Knowledge of Consent Management Platform and Consent-Compliant Tracking
• Some knowledge of Data Studio, Power BI or Tableau may be beneficial but not essential
• Know when and how to utilise AI to support your daily work, or be willing to learn
• Pro-active problem solving, identifying risks on your team’s projects
• Ability to support the team and clients to solve complex problems

Who you are

• You’re a friendly geek who wants to be part of a close knit team
• You’re able to communicate ideas in both technical and user-friendly language
• You have a great work ethic, self-motivated, with a keen attention to detail
• You stay calm and focused under pressure
• You have good communication skills, both written and oral
• You don’t mind a bit of research to resolve issues or learn about new products
• You’re great at prioritising and getting tasks completed in a high-pressure environment
• You love working in a small, collaborative team
• You want to make a difference to the business and our clients’ success

What’s in it for you?

Everyone at Polka Dot Data gets the chance to get involved in interesting projects from day one, to achieve a lot in a short space of time and to work on exciting (often well-known) brands. We also want to develop your skills – to build on the strengths you bring to us.

JOB TYPE

Full-time or part-time hours available

JOB LOCATION

Remote

SALARY

Based on experience