Data Analytics Team Lead
Location: Preston or Frimley. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Referral Scheme Bonus: £1,000
Closing Date: 08/Jan/25, 11:59:00 PM
You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.
We know there may be exceptional individual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.
If you don’t feel you can talk to your Line Manager, you can contact your HRBP.
PLEASE NOTE: Should you be invited for interview; you acknowledge that the Recruitment team will contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.
What you’ll be doing:
- Leading a team of 5-8 Analysts to deliver a range of data analysis and visualisation projects to time, quality and cost
- Ensuring that the work of your team is conducted according to our project and technical processes, and meets our standards of technical excellence
- Collaborating with colleagues from across the wider D&A team to ensure effective end to end delivery, such as data engineers, architects, assurance leads and the operations team
- Managing relationships with senior stakeholders and leveraging these to support successful delivery
- Engages effectively with individuals working in other disciplines within the D&A Team such as Technical Design & Assurance Leads, Business Analysts and Project Managers, and Data Services in order to identify, schedule and co-ordinate required inputs to the projects they lead
- Managing staff performance and promotes ongoing development. Contributes to the team capability roadmap to drive continuous improvement
- Builds and manages relationships with customers at mid to senior levels and leverages these to support successful delivery
- This will typically include a number of projects for one or more stakeholder groups, containing a range of analysis, reporting and/or visualisation outputs
- Ensure that the services and projects within their remit are delivered in line within the necessary technical and project processes
- Lead the delivery of a portfolio of projects through the project lifecycle. Including setting the delivery approach, the timeline, tasking, agreeing RACIs with stakeholders, leading activities to time, quality and budget, identifying and managing project risks, ensuring acceptance and supporting a smooth transition to service
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
- Good experience of planning and leading delivery of Data Analytics projects across the development lifecycle
- Experience of leading a team of including tasking, performance management, development, and managing delivery
- Advanced knowledge of Tableau and Alteryx toolsets (desirable) or other similar analytics toolsets
- An analytical mind set, as well as an inquisitive, methodical approach
- Degree in a numerate subject, or equivalent experience
- Experience of working in an Agile Scrum team
Benefits:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Shared Services Data & Analytics team:
The Shared Services Data & Analytics Hub is at the heart of our company data landscape, bringing together data from our global operations and generating a broad range of insights to inform key business decisions.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.
We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
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