Job Description
Michael Page have exclusively partnered with The Government Property Agency (GPA) to support on their continued Data Transformation programmes. The newly created role of Data Analytics & Data Science Lead is pivotal in this strategy\n\nClient Details\n\nGovernment Property Agency\n\nDescription\n\nIntroduction:\n\nMichael Page have exclusively partnered with The Government Property Agency (GPA) to support on their continued Data Transformation programmes. The newly created role of Data Analytics & Data Science Lead is pivotal in this strategy.
The GPA 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.\n\nThe GPA 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. The team are seeking innovative, solutions-focused people to work on 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. \n\nInnovation and progress are at the heart of GPA behaviours, fostering a culture of lifelong learning, where curiosity and self-improvement are encouraged.
The organisation is dedicated to becoming a leading, inclusive employer both in the external market and throughout the Civil Service. A strong emphasis on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) is not just about driving inclusion across our organisation, it is also about ensuring the services meet the needs of government departments and the civil servants work environments. \n\nJob Overview:\n\nData analytics combined with Data Science can provide a transformational and powerful combination to support GPA's current and forward planning in key areas such as across Operations, Portfolio Performance, H&S, Risk Management and Sustainability.
It provides essential actionable insights to support planning, decision making, scenario planning and predictive analytics.\nData analytics across the GPA is already providing a transparent, interactive interface to the large amount of data collected and processed in GPA. Because of the demand and high importance of data analytics & reporting, a lead role is needed to manage the portfolio of work and the velocity and variety of the data within GPA.\nA 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.\nAdditionally, the GPA would benefit from developing capability in data science. This is closely related to data analytics, but with emphasis on developing new methods and insights from data facilitating improvements to our operational data analytics capability.\nWork locations: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Swindon, Nottingham or Manchester\nHybrid working arrangement - 2 days per week in the officeKey Responsibilities:\n\nSupport the delivery of GPA's Information & Data Strategy and wider reporting requirements.\nSupport the delivery of reporting & dashboard business KPI's, providing more focussed support to business critical dashboards and reporting\nResponsible for leading a team of developers and monitoring their daily duties to ensure a high performing team, supporting and delivering against business outcomes.\nLeading the data analytics team in design, development, testing and release to its intended audience.\nSupport the team with business engagement, hosting working group sessions to provide updates to all levels of the business.\nCollaborate across GPA at all levels to gather requirements and produce new dashboards that will aid in their daily working duties for the GPA.Profile\n\nPerson Specification / Key Skills Criteria & Qualifications:\n\nAs a data driven organisation, a data analytics lead is essential to assure the organisation can devise approaches and systems to 'make sense' of the large volumes of data present in the organisation\nThe data analytics and science lead ensures that the GPA:\nEngages and liaises across GPA to ensure Business Intelligence requirements are captured and understood\nHas fully documented methods and approaches to create BI products updated\nHas reliable and accurate Business Intelligence applications deployed as required by the business\nOversee the investigation / development of new methods for data analysis such as AI \n\nEssential criteria:\n\nPower BI, Azure, Redshift, Databases, Power Platform, Dev Ops, SQL\nDesign and development of Power BI artefacts and environments\nNumerical analysis methods\nStakeholder management and consensus building\nWorking in an Agile development environment\nManaging a team of software developers / engineers\nA computer/analytics University degree \n\nDesirable criteria:\n\nWork prioritisation and scheduling to time and budget\nPeople training & development\nUsing Agile development environments such as JIRA\nMicrosoft Accreditation for Data Analytics (DA-100)\nGold Standard: IT & Data Management - CITP / CsyPJob Offer\n\n28.9% Government Pension Scheme + Excellent Benefits