Senior Data Analyst

About The Role

Hippo is a rapidly growing digital consultancy passionate about building and delivering transformative digital solutions for a diverse range of Public and Private sector clients. We are recruiting for a Senior Data Analyst to join our Hippo Herd. We work at the intersection of strategy, design, and technology to solve complex problems and create lasting value. Our collaborative and agile culture empowers our teams to make a genuine impact.

As a Senior Data Analyst , you will play an important role in making Hippo the best Consultancy out there. You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team combining data, design, product, delivery, analysis and engineering to deliver bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society. We're confident in our abilities, authentic in our approach, and passionate about what we do.

You will act as a Senior Consultant to deliver Data Analysis services to our clients. Senior Data Analysts at Hippo are experienced practitioners who lead the analytical thinking within a project, ensuring data quality and mentoring others to maintain high standards of insight.

Our solutions empower our customers to build and support secure, scalable, and well-engineered systems beyond traditional boundaries. We leverage deep data insights and continuous innovation to deliver awesome platforms that allow our customers to understand and get the most from their data and digital services. The Senior Data Analyst will be a key player and implementer in this mission.

Skills and experience that you need

Your Role in a Nutshell

• Draw actionable insights from multiple, large sources of data and communicate these effectively through reports, dashboards and presentations.
• Engage with client stakeholders to understand their business needs and translate these into clear requirements for analysis.
• Identify opportunities for the use of advanced analytics techniques (e.g. predictive modelling and machine learning) to provide additional value.
• Use robust statistical techniques and be able to communicate your methodology to a wide range of stakeholders.
• Apply tools and techniques for data analysis and visualisation using business intelligence tools.
• Understand data platforms and pipelines at a conceptual level and identify data quality issues.
• Be involved in the recruitment and on-boarding of other analysts, and support other consultants in their professional development.
• Promote Hippo’s Herd internally and externally through blogs, case studies, and workshops.

Essential Experience

• A proven track record as a data analyst with extensive experience exploring and presenting data for users.
• Expert skills in data cleansing, analysis, modelling and visualisation (Tableau, Power BI, Looker Studio).
• Experience working with large, complex data warehouses and/or data lakes.
• Familiarity with cloud-based analytics platforms such as AWS, Azure, Snowflake, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Proficiency in SQL and languages such as R or Python, including relevant frameworks.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with the ability to advise upon complex client requirements.
• Mentoring and coaching skills with a passion for up-skilling junior analysts.

Desirable Experience

• Public sector or consultancy experience is highly desirable.
• Experience with automated data pipeline tools (e.g., dbt, Airflow).

What makes us great

Alongside working with some of the most talented people out there and on-top of a competitive salary, which we’re transparent about from the outset, you can also expect a range of benefits:

• Contributory Pension Scheme (Hippo 6% & Employee 2%)
• 25 Days Holiday plus UK Public Holidays
• Perkbox access for a wide range of discounts
• Critical illness cover
• Life assurance and death in service cover
• Volunteer days
• Cycle-to-work scheme for the avid cyclists
• Salary sacrifice electric vehicles scheme
• Season ticket loans
• Financial and general wellbeing sessions
• Private health cover
• Private dental cover
• Additional company pension contributions
• Additional holidays (up to an extra 2 days)
• Wellbeing contribution
• Charity contributions
• Tree planting

Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Hippo

At Hippo, we’re dedicated to creating a diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace that works for everyone. We understand that having a diverse team unlocks our capacity for innovation, creativity and problem solving. Only by building a community of diverse perspectives, cultures and socio-economic backgrounds can we create an environment where all can contribute and thrive.

We actively encourage applications from underrepresented groups including women, ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+, neurodivergent and people with disabilities. We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process that reflects our workplace culture. We are a registered Disability Confident Employer, Mindful Employer, Endometriosis Friendly Employer and a member of the Armed Forces Covenant. Hippo continually strives to remove barriers, provide accommodations and offer reasonable adjustments to ensure equity throughout our practices.

Hi, we’re Hippo 

At Hippo, we design with empathy and build for impact. We do this by combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering. We're a digital services partner who is genuinely invested in helping our clients thrive as modern organisations. Our delivery methodology is truly agile, from concept to reality, supporting innovation and continuous improvement to achieve your desired outcomes.

We firmly believe that technology should serve humanity, not the other way around. We take a human-centred approach to everything we do because we understand that complex problems require a service design approach. This means understanding how users behave and ensuring our solutions work for them in the real world.

Our combination of data, design, and engineering delivers bespoke digital services that make a positive and meaningful impact on organisations and society.

Have a look through our Website at Our Story & Purpose, Our Culture & Values, Case Studies and Our Solutions & Services to find out some more!

Hippo Locations

We are headquartered in Leeds and have offices across the UK in Glasgow, Manchester, Liverpool, Birmingham, London and Bristol. We're on the lookout for top talent nationwide but you need to be located within reasonable travelling distance from one of our offices. Given the dynamic nature of a consulting business, you may be required to work on-site at a Hippo office or at an in/out of town client location for a number of days per week (client dependent) and therefore candidates will need to be open/flexible to travel and working on one of those sites at least 2 days per week. We offer a generous relocation support package of up to £8,000 (please ask for terms and conditions) to help make your move a smooth one.