Staff Data Analyst

Academic Key; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Graphcore, Bristol, is recruiting a Staff Data Analyst to drive data-informed decision making. You will lead discovery workshops, translate business needs into requirements, and deliver repeatable analyses and dashboards.

You will enable agentic, self-service data experiences and collaborate with analytics engineers and project managers to improve business outcomes. You will work closely with business teams to map processes, define rules, and validate data-driven insights, ensuring trusted data

Qualifications

• Experience leading discovery efforts and defining requirements.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Proficiency in building repeatable analyses, dashboards and metrics.
• Strong SQL skills and data storytelling to inform decisions.
• Familiarity with agentic/self-service data workflows and governance.

Responsibilities

• Lead business discovery and workshops to understand objectives and problems.
• Map current and future processes, ownership, and data flows.
• Define requirements, rules, and acceptance criteria with traceability.
• Deliver hands-on analytics using SQL and validated reports.
• Support self-service data use and ensure alignment with definitions.

Skills

SQL

Data analytics

Workshops facilitation

Stakeholder collaboration

AI-assisted workflows

Job description

About us Graphcore is one of the world’s leading innovators in Artificial Intelligence compute. It is developing hardware, software and systems infrastructure that will unlock the next generation of AI breakthroughs and power the widespread adoption of AI solutions across every industry. As part of the SoftBank Group, Graphcore is a member of a family of companies responsible for some of the world’s most transformative technologies. Together, they share a bold vision: to enable Artificial Super Intelligence and ensure its benefits are accessible to everyone. Graphcore’s teams are drawn from diverse backgrounds and bring a broad range of skills and perspectives. We bring together specialists across AI research, silicon design, software engineering and systems to solve complex problems and deliver meaningful impact. Job Summary Initially reporting to the Head of Data & Transformation, you will help business teams improve how they work and make decisions through process change, data analytics and AI-assisted and agentic workflows. Working closely with the Data Enablement Lead, you will independently lead complex, agreed initiatives from discovery and process mapping through requirements definition, hands‑on analysis, prototyping, implementation and adoption. You will help teams find and use trusted data, embed analytics and agentic workflows into everyday activities, and achieve measurable improvements in business outcomes. The Team The Data & Transformation team brings together data capability and business transformation to improve how Graphcore operates and makes decisions. The team builds trusted data foundations, enables effective access to information and delivers cross‑functional change to business processes, systems and ways of working. You will partner directly with business teams, the Data Enablement Lead, Analytics Engineers and Project Managers. The Data Enablement Lead owns the overall data enablement approach, opportunity pipeline and shared solution standards. You will own end‑to‑end delivery of agreed initiatives within those approaches and standards, contributing new opportunities and improvements through practical delivery experience. Responsibilities and Duties Lead business discovery and identify opportunities. Facilitate workshops to understand business objectives, information needs, current ways of working and underlying problems. Identify recurring needs and bring evidence‑based opportunities to the Data Enablement Lead, considering business value, feasibility, risk and potential for reuse across teams. Map and improve processes. Document current‑state and future‑state processes, including activities, decisions, ownership, handovers, controls, systems and data flows. Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce manual effort and improve the quality and timeliness of decisions. Own requirements definition. Translate business needs into clear, prioritised requirements, business rules, user stories and acceptance criteria. Build agreement with stakeholders and maintain traceability between the original need, proposed changes, delivered functionality and intended outcomes. Deliver hands‑on analytics. Use SQL to explore organisational and warehouse data, test hypotheses, investigate discrepancies and identify patterns or causes of operational problems. Build and validate repeatable analyses, reports, dashboards and measures that support business decisions, communicating findings and data limitations clearly. Enable agentic self‑service data use. Work with the Data Enablement Lead and Analytics Engineers to translate business questions and process needs into practical self‑service data experiences. Help users discover data, ask questions, interpret trusted metrics and act on results. Validate that analytical and agentic interactions use agreed business definitions and meet user needs. Recommend practical solution approaches. Assess whether a need is best addressed through process changes, self‑service analytics, existing tools, conventional automation or agentic workflows. Work with the Data Enablement Lead and technical colleagues to balance business value, usability, complexity, risk, implementation effort and ongoing support. Design agentic workflows. Map how users, agents, systems and data should interact, using agreed solution patterns and access controls. Define business rules, proposed agent actions, human approval points, exception handling and fallback processes. Work with the Data Enablement Lead and technical colleagues on decisions affecting shared architecture or controls. Prototype, evaluate and validate solutions. Use AI‑assisted development tools to develop and iterate analytical and agentic workflow prototypes, reviewing generated code and outputs against agreed quality standards. Work with technical colleagues to test realistic business scenari

Staff Data Analyst

Graphcore · Bristol