Principal Data Analytics Consultant

💸Salary: £87,525 to £92,457 (depending on experience). Up to 15% company performance-based bonus. 

📍Location: Remote – must be based within the UK. Occasional visits to see customers and the team.    

🧠Interview process: Two rounds. 1: Get to know you chat with the People Recruitment Manager ; 2: Technical competency with the Hiring Lead and a Team Member. 

🤝Our Values:  Advancing, Come as you are, Zero burnout, Greta goal, We all level up together and Transparency  

Learn more about us: YouTube, Totally Skewed Podcast & Data Science in Production. Read our Blogs. 

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Who Are We?

Advancing Analytics are a market leader in delivering bleeding edge analytical solutions for customers all over the world. To thrive in today's market, businesses need to implement AI built on a solid, reliable Data Platform, and we are looking for you to help us build it!

Who are we looking for?

Dedicated individuals who blend technical passion with the honesty and empathy needed for client consulting. People who love data and strongly believe in sharing knowledge, skills, and wisdom both internally and with the wider data community. Someone who thrives in an agile environment, balancing their technical prowess with the pragmatic needs of the project. 

For the Principal Consultant role, we expect a good understanding of our core analytics tech stack and the ability to augment the end-to-end solution with value driving strategy initiatives. 

Required Tools and Technologies:

• Microsoft Azure and cloud computing concepts, or experience working with other cloud providers 
• SQL – writing complex high performance queries, understanding how queries execute on different compute technologies 
• DAX – to make those semantic models fly 
• Visualisation Tools – Power BI, Tableau 
• Unity Catalog, Purview or other Data Governance tools 

Other technology we like, but isn’t essential:

• Python – we build almost everything in Python, but other languages are awesome too 
• Apache Spark – Databricks, Microsoft Fabric or another Spark engine 
• Building parallel systems – Distributed compute engines  
• Analytics Engineering solutions - dbt 

Skills and Approaches:

• Agile project management 
  
• Work closely with customers to understand their unique needs and challenges. 
  
• Conceptualise and deliver data strategy advisory services to clients. This will pertain to Data Maturity, Data Governance frameworks, and Data Culture establishment.  
  
• Deliver high-quality solutions that drive business value and enable data-driven decision making. 
  
• Communicate effectively with customers and internal stakeholders. 
  
• Build strong relationships with clients, establishing trust through transparency and support.
  
• Run hands-on events to support data strategy initiatives.  
  
• Stay up to date with the latest developments in Data Lakehouse architecture, analytics engineering, and data modelling. 
  
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What will it be like to work for Advancing Analytics?

We are a small company and encourage everyone to have a voice within our collaborative and inclusive team from day one.

As a Microsoft Gold Partner, Databricks Partner, AWS and GCP partner, you will have access to the latest tech and training opportunities the industry has to offer. We are aware this is a rapidly changing market and are committed to investing in the long-term goals of our employees. We love being engaged in the wider tech community and frequently present at events, sponsor events such as Big Data London, SQLBits and even organise the Global AI Bootcamp London.

We encourage our team to get involved in the community, whether that’s in the form of a personal blog or an initiative you are passionate about advocating, we will support you!

Aside from offering a competitive salary, we have a great set of benefits and perks including, but not limited to:

• Industry matching Maternity & Paternity policy 
  
• Private Medical & Dental Care plus Eye Care schemes  👁
  
• Health & Wellbeing fund  
  
• 25 Days Annual Leave, Birthday leave & Charity leave 🌴
  
• Frequent away days with the team 🚃
  
• Annual Bonus Scheme (up to 15%) 
  
• Flexible Working Hours 
  
• Electric Car scheme   🚗

You can read about our values in more detail here - https://www.advancinganalytics.co.uk/values

Equal opportunities for everyone
At Advancing Analytics both diversity and inclusion are a priority. We are all committed to creating

an inclusive environment where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to be their authentic selves.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer; all applicants will be considered without regard to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, veteran status, neurodiversity or disability status.

This role profile is intended to provide an overview of the responsibilities and qualifications required for the Principal Analytics Consultant role. It is not an exhaustive list and may be subject to change to meet the needs of the organisation.