Principal Reporting & Analytics Engineer

UCL; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

41 days holiday

Relocation scheme

On-site gym

Pension scheme CARE

Cycle to work

Staff Support Service

Discounted medical insurance

Job summary

University College London seeks a Senior Technical Lead to provide strategic and technical leadership across its enterprise Reporting & Analytics platforms. You will shape design and scaling of complex analytics solutions, mentoring teams and promoting best practices to deliver secure, high-value insights for students and staff.

You will lead migration programs and curate training for diverse audiences, championing user-focused analytics and a culture of continuous improvement and service

Qualifications

• Experienced leader responsible for designing and scaling enterprise reporting analytics platforms.
• Proven ability to mentor teams and deliver training across diverse audiences.
• Strong focus on data quality, security, reliability and customer-centric analytics.

Responsibilities

• Provide advanced technical leadership across R&A platforms.
• Drive design, development and scaling of complex analytics solutions.
• Lead migration projects and promote best practices for data quality and security.
• Curate and deliver training for diverse audiences and stakeholders.

Skills

Technical leadership

Data strategy

Mentoring

Stakeholder management

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

BOBI

Fabric

Job description

About the role

We are seeking a Senior Technical Lead to provides advanced technical leadership across UCL's enterprise Reporting & Analytics platforms, driving the design, development, and scaling of R&A services. The role will lead the design, development, and scaling of complex technical solutions, including R&A platforms, dashboards, semantic models, and self-service analytics while promoting a culture of service excellence and continuous improvement.

The post holder will influence change, embed best practices, and ensure analytics platforms are secure, scalable, reliable, and deliver exceptional value to students, staff, and educators. You will also mentor junior member, curate and deliver training across diverse audiences, and champion a user-focused, service-oriented approach to analytics delivery.

This is an opportunity to shape UCL's Data strategy, drive excellence in data insights, and foster a culture of innovation and technical excellence.

About you

You are an experienced technical leader with a strong track record in building and scaling enterprise Reporting & Analytics platforms. You have deep expertise in R&A technologies such as Fabric Power BI, Power BI, Tableau, BOBI and modern Reporting platforms, and a passion for driving data-driven decision-making.

You excel at mentoring and developing teams, curating and delivering training to diverse audiences across the organisation, and producing high-standard technical documentation. You have experience leading complex migration projects and promoting best practices to ensure high standards of data quality, security, and operational reliability.

You have a strong customer-service mindset, keeping the customer at the centre of everything you do, and can translate complex technical concepts into actionable insights that enhance user experience and enable exceptional analytics and reporting services.

What we offer

As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:

• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days' annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance

Visit https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/rewards-and-benefits to find out more.

Our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

As London's Global University, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation, and we want our community to represent the diversity of the world's talent. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where we all belong.

We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in UCL's workforce. These include people from Black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds; disabled people; LGBTQI+ people; and for our Grade 9 and 10 roles, women.