Role: Data Insight Analyst
Location: Gloucestershire (3 days per week onsite)
Contract: 6 months
Rate: £550 per day (inside IR35)
Oliver James has partnered with a well-established financial services organisation to support the growth of their data function, with multiple opportunities available for Data Insight Analysts.
These roles sit within a high-performing data engineering and insights team, working across a number of key value streams. You’ll play a hands-on role in delivering data-driven insights, building robust data structures, and supporting business-critical reporting and analytics initiatives. This is a collaborative, agile environment with strong stakeholder engagement and a real focus on quality and best practice.
Key Responsibilities
- Work closely with business stakeholders to define and deliver data requirements
- Develop and optimise data structures and queries, primarily using Snowflake and SQL
- Build and support dashboards in collaboration with visualisation analysts
- Write and maintain code using Python and JavaScript where required
- Contribute to coding standards through peer reviews and best practice sharing
- Support occasional work across legacy systems (SQL Server and Oracle)
- Manage your own workload within an agile framework, including estimation and prioritisation
- Provide support and guidance to other team members and contractors where needed
Essential Skills
- Strong experience with Snowflake and advanced SQL development
- Experience working with Python and/or JavaScript
- Proven ability to gather requirements and work closely with business stakeholders
- Comfortable working in agile, collaborative environments
- Strong communication skills and ability to operate in a peer review culture
- Proactive, self-sufficient, and able to manage workload effectively
Desirable Skills
- Experience with Microsoft SQL Server and/or Oracle
- Background in financial services or other regulated environments
- Experience working across multiple value streams or scrum teams
- Exposure to dashboarding / data visualisation tools
Additional Information
- Multiple roles available across different value streams and scrum teams
- Hiring process is a single-stage interview
- Flexible contract durations depending on project funding and delivery needs
