Apprentice Data Analyst

A highly passionate bunch, our data, analytics and AI team bring our unique software solutions to life. Our mission is to empower our customers and internal stakeholders to improve business performance and minimise risk by providing them with clean, reliable data and analytical models. We are with them to help make informed decisions, deliver a personalised service and automate their workloads. So, in this role you might be building data pipelines, modelling data, developing predictive models or automations for repeatable tasks or creation of data products.

You might be working with stakeholders to understand their intelligence needs, designing and creating report visualisations or creating a new ML model for a key business driver. You could also be working with the software and infrastructure teams to optimise performance and scalability of our systems.

Whatever you’re working on, you’ll be using software development best practice and the latest tools and processes from the Microsoft Azure stack.

What the role involves: 

• Identifying data sources to meet the organisation’s requirement, using evidence-based decision making to establish a rationale for inclusion and exclusion of various data sets and models
• Liaising with the client and/or colleagues from other areas of the organisation to establish reporting needs and deliver accurate information
• Collecting, compiling and, if needed, cleansing data, such as sales figures, Digital Twins etc. solving any problems that arise, to/from a range of internal and external systems 
• Creating performance dashboards and reports in the Visualisation and Model Building phase
• Supporting the business by maintaining and developing reports for analysis to aid with decisions, and adhering to organisational policy/legislation
• Producing a range of standard and non-standard statistical and data analysis reports in the Model Building phase 
• Identify, analyse, and interpret trends or patterns in data sets · Drawing conclusions/recommend appropriate responses/offer guidance/ interpretation 
• Summarise and present the results of data analysis to a range of stakeholders, making recommendations 
• Provide regular reports & analysis to different management/leadership teams, ensuring data is used and represented ethically in line with relevant legislation (e.g. GDPR, which incorporates Privacy by Design)
• Ensure data is appropriately stored and archived, in line with relevant legislation 
• Practise continuous self-learning to keep up to date with technology 100% developments to enhance relevant skills and take responsibility for their own professional development

• The candidate will follow a Level 4 apprenticeship programme and study towards a full standard as a Data Analyst. This training will be structured and delivered by Cheshire College – South & West
• If you do not already hold GCSEs at grade A-C / 8-4 in English and maths you may be required to complete Functional Skills in the related subjects to attain Level 2 Functional Skills

• A full-time role is potentially available on successful completion of apprenticeship