Senior Power BI Data Analyst

Government Recruitment Service; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

An UK Government Agency is seeking a Senior Data Analyst to support their Information & Data Strategy. The role involves developing Power BI solutions, collaborating across teams to gather requirements, and ensuring reliable BI applications are deployed. Candidates should possess a strong background in data analytics, familiar with Power BI, Azure, and Agile development environments. This position offers an opportunity to make a significant impact in improving government operations.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in data analytics with a focus on BI solutions.
• Demonstrated knowledge in Agile development environments.
• Strong analytical skills with an understanding of numerical analysis methods.

Responsibilities

• Support the delivery of GPA’s Information & Data Strategy.
• Design and deploy BI applications, including dashboards.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements.

Skills

Power BI

Azure

Redshift

Databases

Power Platform

Dev Ops

SQL

RLS

CICD

Stakeholder management

Education

Computer/analytics University degree

Tools

JIRA

Job description

Job summary

The Government Property Agency is the largest property holder in government, with more than £2.1 billion in property assets and over 55% of the government’s office estate.

We are transforming the way the Civil Service works by creating great places to work, leading the largest commercial office programme in the UK, working towards halving carbon emissions from government offices, and achieving greater value for taxpayers. We are looking for innovative, solutions‑focused people to join our team.

Representing the best covenant in the UK – His Majesty’s Government – we are leading transformational programmes such as the Government Hubs Programme, Whitehall Campus Programme and Net Zero Programme, as well as delivering modern, cost‑effective real estate service solutions.

Innovation and progress are at the heart of our behaviours. We foster a culture of lifelong learning, where curiosity and self‑improvement are encouraged. We’re dedicated to becoming a leading, inclusive employer both in the external market and throughout the Civil Service. Our strong emphasis on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is not just about driving inclusion across our organisation, it is also about ensuring our services meet the needs of government departments and the civil servants who use our spaces.

Join our dynamic and diverse team that leads with purpose, improving sustainability, nurturing social value, driving inclusivity and flexibility, and kickstarting economic growth. We are driven by purpose, and you can be part of it too: where you make a meaningful impact, where you influence, where your voice really matters, and where you help to shape our future direction.

The GPA is committed to representing the communities we serve by making Diversity, Equality and Inclusion part of everything we do.

To ensure that we are always recruiting and retaining a diverse mix of talent, we are particularly inviting applications from candidates who are disabled, ethnically or gender diverse, and people who identify as being part of the LGBTQ+ community.

Job description

Data analytics provides a transformational and powerful combination to support GPA’s current and forward planning in key areas such as across Operations, Portfolio Performance, Health and Safety, Risk Management and Sustainability. It provides essential actionable insights to support planning, decision making, scenario planning and predictive analytics.

Data analytics across the GPA is already providing a transparent, interactive interface to the large amount of data we collect and process in GPA. A number of exemplar PowerBI dashboards are already supporting business plan objectives and crucial reporting in areas such as Occupancy, Property Portfolio, Customer Satisfaction, Client Satisfaction, CRM Reporting, Sustainability, etc.

In this role you will be responsible for the full lifecycle development and maintenance of part of GPA’s dashboard portfolio. Working alongside Business Analysts and Data Architects you will have authority to build analytics solutions that are underpinning the key strategic and operational business decisions of GPA.

Key responsibilities

• Support the delivery of GPA’s Information & Data Strategy and wider reporting requirements.
• Support the delivery of reporting & dashboard business KPI’s, providing more focused support to business critical dashboards and reporting.
• Deliver GPA’s BI products in accordance with our Information Management and Data Governance frameworks.
• Capture and refine the requirements for BI across GPA and use this to design solutions in consultation with business stakeholders.
• Design and deploy BI applications (e.g. dashboards) across GPA and more widely across government as required.
• Perform upgrades and improvements to the functionality and content of deployed dashboards.
• Support the team with business engagement, hosting working group sessions to provide updates to all levels of the business.
• Collaborate across GPA at all levels to gather requirements and produce new dashboards that will aid in their daily working duties for the GPA.

Person specification

As a data driven organisation, a data analytics lead is essential to assure as an organisation we can devise approaches and systems to ‘make sense’ of the large volumes of data present in the organisation.

Senior Data Analyst responsibilities

• Engages and liaises across GPA to ensure BI requirements are captured and understood.
• Has fully documented methods and approaches to create BI products.
• Has reliable and accurate BI applications deployed as required by the business.

Essential criteria

• Power BI, Azure, Redshift, Databases, Power Platform, Dev Ops, SQL, RLS, CICD.
• Design and development of Power BI artefacts and environments.
• Numerical analysis methods.
• Stakeholder management and consensus building.
• Working in an Agile development environment.

Desirable criteria

• Work prioritisation and scheduling to time and budget.
• People training & development.
• Using Agile development environments such as JIRA.

Qualifications and Accreditations

Essential criteria

• A computer/analytics University degree.

Desirable criteria

• Microsoft Accreditation for Data Analytics (DA‑100).
• Gold Standard: IT & Data Management – CITP / CsyP.