Analytics Engineer

University of Birmingham - External Relations

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £36,636 to £46,049

Contract Type: Fixed Term To September 2027

Role Summary

We require an experienced Analytics Engineer to join a maturing project and steer the next crucial stage of its delivery. The primary focus of the role is to ensure our Dynamics data is captured and modelled in Snowflake to meet our business requirements, working with colleagues from IT Services and the Business (including permanent, fixed term and contract staff).

This is a hybrid role requiring an average of three days on campus each week.

Main Duties

1. Develop an understanding of the enquirer and applicant journeys and how they are captured in our data.
2. Collect business requirements and ensure that they are met
3. Work with colleagues to create, enhance, test and maintain the dataflows that support our recruitment, admissions, analysis and insight functions
4. Work closely and constructively with colleagues in Admission, Student Recruitment and IT Services, including the Dynamics product team.
5. Take a leading role in development of data models in Snowflake, ensuring compliance with institutional data governance
6. Contribute to development of data lakes and the data warehouse, leading where appropriate
7. Prepare datasets for inclusion in PBI reports
8. Act as a bridge between IT/BI specialists and data users in the business
9. Balance short and long-term priorities in a changing systems environment
10. Apply Agile Scrum techniques, leading meetings where required

Person Specification

• Strong understanding of the principles of database systems, data warehouses, ETL processes, APIs and data analytics.
• Excellent organisational and time-management skills with real attention to deadlines and detail.
• Ability to prioritise and consolidate stakeholder requirements.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and deliver to targets.
• The resilience to deal with and work around the limitations of legacy systems, and to adapt as systems change.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills for to ensure understanding between technical and non-technical colleagues
• Experience of MS Dynamics or a similar CRM system, Snowflake or similar, SQL, Python, dbt, Git.
• Experience of Git
• Experience of leading technical colleagues
• Educated to Degree level (or equivalent qualifications) or relevant technical qualification and considerable relevant experience. Where no equivalent qualification is held, significant practical relevant experience and expertise in a series of more demanding roles will be required demonstrating the conceptual understanding required.
• In depth up to date specialist understanding and experience in a relevant scientific, technical or IT specialism
• Evidence of literacy and numeracy.
• Knowledge of the protected characteristics of the Equality Act 2010, and how to actively ensure in day to day activity in own area that those with protected characteristics are treated equally and fairly.

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