Head of Data Analysis

at  Department for Business and Trade Digital Data and Technology

ABOUT US

The Department for Business and Trade (DBT) is the department for economic growth. The Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) directorate develops and operates tools and services to support businesses to invest, grow and export, creating jobs and opportunities across the country.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

It is essential that you have:

• Experience of leading and line-managing data specialists and supporting them towards achieving a significant impact.
• Excellent engagement and communication skills, demonstrated by ability manage relationships and communicate accurate information to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• A good understanding, and experience, of data visualisation; you should understand how to tell compelling and actionable stories that are relevant to business goals. This will include experience with a dashboarding/BI tool (for example Tableau, Power BI, AWS QuickSight, Google Data Studio, or others) and use of a visualisation library (for example Shiny or Streamlit).
• Experience using SQL as well as either Python or R to bring data together from different sources and get them ready for analysis using cleaning and preparation techniques.
• Understanding of the ethical considerations of potential data analysis approaches, and the legislation applicable in this area. This includes the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act (DPA).

It is desirable that you have:

• Knowledge of other professions in Digital, Data & Technology and how they can work together in an agile environment.
• Awareness of existing Government frameworks, and any other relevant frameworks. This includes the GDS Service Standard and the Aqua Book.

MORE ABOUT US

This role can only be worked from within the UK, not overseas. If you are based in London, you will receive London weighting. DBT employees work in a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rata) in the office on average. Travel to your primary office location will not be paid for by DBT, but costs for travel to an office which is not your main location will be covered.
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ABOUT THE ROLE

Join our Data Infrastructure team as a Head of Data Analysis and help us transform DBT into an insight-driven organisation that tells compelling stories with its data. You will be leading on work backed by our ground-breaking data and insight platform, Data Workspace. The service gives our staff access to a catalogue of key trade data and a suite of powerful tools with which to analyse and explore it.
Data Analysts in the department use high quality datasets held inside and outside DBT including data and management information, commercial and business data. They analyse and facilitate the analysis of these datasets, leading on projects to help DBT get insight from them. As a Head of Profession for Data Analysis you will be responsible for ensuring that Data Analysts are supported and their skills put to best use.

MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

You will be:

• Line manage Senior Data Analysts and indirectly all other members of the profession to ensure they are supported to deliver their best work.
• Ensure the continuous learning and advancement of capabilities in the profession.
• Identify opportunities for helping achieve the department’s objectives by deploying data analysis capabilities.
• Support members of the profession through advanced data skills, and provide expert advice to colleagues across Digital, Data & Technology portfolios.
• Resource the data analysis needs of the department by engaging with portfolios to prioritise asks, recruiting new members of the profession and improving the operating model for the profession.
• Collaborate with other members of Data Infrastructure to shape the future of the data platform so it can support impactful and cutting-edge applications of data analysis.
• Champion the democratisation of data analysis by contributing to upskilling other colleagues and enabling self-serve analysis work.
• Strengthen the cross-government community for data analysis.