Ovo Careers – Senior Data Analyst In Northampton, UK

Overview

Position Title: Senior Data Analyst

Company: OVO

Location: Northampton, UK

Job Description

The OVO Group’s purpose is to drive progress towards net zero carbon living. To reach Plan Zero, we need everyone to come together – not just as customers buying energy, but as members with a common goal. As part of this ambitious plan, our goal is to become the ‘Leading Employer in the UK’ by 2030. If you think you could be the talent we’re looking for, then come and join the adventure!

We launched in 2009 with a mission to change energy for the better. Since then, we’ve welcomed over a million members, planted a million trees, and set our sights on helping save the planet.

As a Group, we’re working to become a net zero carbon business by 2030, while helping our OVO Energy members halve their carbon footprints at the same time.

Green energy and technology are great tools to fight the climate crisis with. But it’s people power that will rewrite history.

So we’re building a zero carbon team inside and out. Of people who share our values, feel inspired by our mission, and want to make change happen. When you work for OVO, it’s not just a job. It’s the work of a lifetime. And we want the sharpest minds to help.

Responsibilities:

• Independently solves various problems and has extensive experience refortifying complicated problems through the application of design patterns
• Document business requirements from multiple stakeholder groups, propose tooling solutions and co-ordinate prioritisation activities
• Lead on preparing data for less experienced analysts to use
• Able to lead, coordinate and oversee the work of other analysts as it relates to a specific project.
• You will be responsible for maintaining a deep awareness of how a business operation works and helping the stakeholders explore technology possibilities to optimise ways of working.
• You’ll lead on ensuring the accuracy, completeness and timely delivery of reports and analysis.
• Have a fundamental understanding of the principles of Agile and lean development
• Ability to make lead on delivery of technical requirements and able to make the right decisions that bring maximum benefit to the project.
• Communicate conclusions drawn from, and implications of results from statistical and performance analyses to a wide range of stakeholders, guiding them to make an informed decision on a certain course of action
• A good senior not only understands what the team is developing, but thinks about what tasks the finished project should solve.
• Convey statistical concepts clearly and develop and deliver formal presentations to individuals and groups
• Advanced leadership skills including the ability to form excellent relationships and to influence and negotiate effectively in order to deliver results
• Able to think in advance about the bottlenecks of the process and the possibility of scaling it, remembers vulnerabilities and problems caused by the improper design
• Has the ability to experiment and test solutions for problems, validate assumptions for them, and the ability to associate one idea to another to reach a solution
• Drives data governance and best practices that align with the data strategy for the area.

Requirements:

• Highly experience in writing queries in BigQuery and preferably experience with other programming languages, such as using Python or R to interrogate large data sets and identify actionable insights
• Consistently demonstrates a strategic understanding of the area and wider business
• Adaptable to change with experience working in a fast-paced, ambitious, customer focused environment.
• You are able to demonstrate the ability to provide clarity in a complex and changing environment
• Solution oriented driving value creation through simplification
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with both outstanding verbal and written communications
• The ability to see the bigger picture and understand how a wide range of analytical outputs link together
• A creative thinker who thrives off direct responsibility and delivering value
• Experienced in working with technical products that have multiple stakeholders