Qlik Data Analyst

Affinity Water; Hatfield; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 69,000; Full time

Job summary

Affinity Water is seeking a Qlik Data Analyst to enhance data-driven decision-making. You will create impactful data visualisations and collaborate with teams to drive strategy using Smart Metering data. The role requires strong analytical skills and experience with Qlik tools.

Benefits

Salary circa £60,000 per annum

26 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Generous pension scheme

Company bonus scheme

Access to Wellbeing Centre

Hybrid working opportunities

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in Qlik dashboard development.
• Comprehensive knowledge of SQL for practical applications.

Responsibilities

• Create data visualisations and storytelling using Qlik.
• Perform exploratory data analysis to identify trends and anomalies.

Skills

SQL

Data Analysis

UI/UX Design

Communication

Problem Solving

Education

Qlik Certification

Tools

Qlik Sense

Qlik View

Job description

As a Qlik Data Analyst, you will play a crucial role in driving data-driven decision-making. You will transform complex data into actionable insights that enable us to innovate & optimise performance. With a focus on delivery quality analytics and insight for Smart Metering related data sets, you'll play a pivotal role in how the data can be utilised to drive strategy.

About Us

Affinity Water is on an exciting journey to become a data-driven organisation. Data is central to meeting our company objectives and delivering outstanding outcomes. Our ambition is to establish a systematic focus on data and knowledge throughout the business, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration. This will allow us to achieve and sustain breakthrough service and performance for our customers.

Key Responsibilities:

• Create data visualisations and storytelling of all corporate data to represent data findings clearly and effectively using the Qlik product stack.
• Analysis, interpretation and reporting of data to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Understand business requirements to identify data sources and data entities required for data projects and support with extract and transform activities
• Performing exploratory data analysis to understand trends, patterns, and anomalies which includes any data quality considerations for on-going consumption
• Provide insights and designs for Data Engineers and Performance Insight Analysts to undertake their own build activities
• Data Collection, Cleaning and Preparation of data from structured and unstructured sources for analysis purposes
• Collaborate with and support the wider teams and data users in the development of dashboards and reports to communicate insights to stakeholders.
• Undertake ad-hoc analysis of data to provide data-driven recommendations to support business decisions.
• Monitor, update and resolve service desk tickets in line with SLAs for incident management.
• Pro-actively keep up to date with the evolving technologies, tools, and techniques in data analysis to continually enhance skills and improve analysis processes.

Qualifications / Knowledge required

• 5+ years experience developing and delivering interactive dashboards and reports using Qlik Sense, and/or have obtained a Qlik certification in either Qlik Sense or Qlik View as a Business Analyst or Data Architect.
• Experience of day-to-day administration of Qlik i.e. Data connections, User access, Task scheduling and monitoring
• Comprehensive knowledge of SQL that can be practically applied
• A strong understanding of UI/UX design concepts
• Ability to work with large datasets through data cleaning, preprocessing, and transformation techniques
• Documenting of dashboards, standards, data designs and data models
• Ability to take complex information and disparate or large data sets, model and translate them for use in graphic or interactive visualisations.
• Possess a deep understanding of Business Intelligence reporting with great problem-solving skills, intellectual curiosity and an agile outlook.
• Ability to translate business requirements into data modelling/scripting and Qlik front end development specifications

Personal Skills and Key Competencies:

• Attention to detail and a proactive attitude towards the delivery of projects
• Excellent communication skills that is flexible and a team player but is self-motivated with a positive “get-it-done” approach.
• Ability to liaise with a broad range of stakeholders to capture complex requirements and translate them into data story telling
• Strong organisational skills and experience in prioritising work to meet project deadlines
• Develop documentation to share with management and implementation teams
• Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills with the ability to present the ‘story’ of data in clear and concise language to a broad range of stake holders.

Benefits include:

• Salary circa £60,000 per annumdependant on experience
• Annual leave 26 days, plus a celebration day, plus bank holidays, rising with length of service
• A generous pension scheme that doubles the contributions you make, up to a maximum of 12%
• We offer enhanced Maternity, Adoption and Shared Parental Leave. We also have a Carers policy and Menopause policy to help us support our people through different stages of their lives.
• Company bonus scheme
• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health
• Hybrid working: Improve your home-work balance with the opportunity for hybrid working

You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.