Senior Power BI Data Analyst

Senior Power BI Data Analyst

Government Property Agency

Salary - £42,450 to £46,636

Contract type: Permanent

Location: Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Leeds, Manchester, Nottingham or Swindon

There is also a non- standard RRA of up to £3,000 that may be applied to attract an exceptional candidate.

Job description

Data analytics provides a transformational and powerful combination to support GPA's current and forward planning in key areas such as across Operations, Portfolio Performance, Health and Safety, Risk Management and Sustainability. It provides essential actionable insights to support planning, decision making, scenario planning and predictive analytics. Data analytics across the GPA is already providing a transparent, interactive interface to the large amount of data we collect and process in GPA. A number of exemplar Power BI 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. In this role you will be responsible for the full lifecycle development and maintenance of part of GPA's dashboard portfolio. Working alongside Business Analysts and Data Architects you will have authority to build analytics solutions that are underpinning the key strategic and operational business decisions of GPA.

Key responsibilities

• Support the delivery of GPA's Information & Data Strategy and wider reporting requirements.
• Support the delivery of reporting & dashboard business KPI's, providing more focussed support to business-critical dashboards and reporting
• Delivering GPA's BI products in accordance with our Information Management and Data Governance frameworks
• Capturing and refining the requirements for BI across GPA and using this to design solutions in consultation with business stakeholders
• Designing and deploying BI applications (e.g. dashboards) across GPA and more widely across government as required
• Performing upgrades and improvements to the functionality and content of deployed dashboards
• Support the team with business engagement, hosting working group sessions to provide updates to all levels of the business.
• Collaborate across GPA at all levels to gather requirements and produce new dashboards that will aid in their daily working duties for the GPA.

Personal Specification

As a data driven organisation, a data analytics lead is essential to assure as an organisation we can devise approaches and systems to 'make sense' of the large volumes of data present in the organisation The Senior Data Analyst ensures that the GPA:

• Engages and liaises across GPA to ensure BI requirements are captured and understood
• Has fully documented methods and approaches to create BI productsUpdated
• Has reliable and accurate BI applications deployed as required by the business

Technical skills

Essential criteria:

• Power BI, Azure, Redshift, Databases, Power Platform, Dev Ops, SQL, RLS, CICD
• Design and development of Power BI artefacts and environments
• Numerical analysis methods
• Stakeholder management and consensus building
• Working in an Agile development environment Desirable criterion:
• Work prioritisation and scheduling to time and budget
• People training & development
• Using Agile development environments such as JIRA Qualifications and Accreditation

Qualifications

Essential criteria:

• A computer/analytics University degree Desirable criterion:
• Microsoft Accreditation for Data Analytics (DA-100)
• Gold Standard: IT & Data Management - CITP / CsyP

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role
• An environment with flexible working options
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
• A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
• Generous annual leave

How to apply

The application process will be open until the 1st February 2026.

Additional information

Please note: in addition to the standard pre-employment checks for appointment into the Civil Service, all candidates must also obtain National Security Vetting at Security Check (SC) clearance level for this vacancy. You will normally need to meet the minimum UK residency period as determined by the level of vetting being undertaken, which for SC is 5 years UK residency prior to your vetting application.

New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.