Software Engineer - Analytics/Insights

This is a remote position.

Location

Remote, but with occasional meetings and events in London and/or Sheffield

Salary

£80,000pa - permanent employment, or inside IR35 contract at £435/day

Overview

Our client is a fast-growing international consultancy specialising in data, AI and advanced analytics for major financial institutions. With programmes running across the UK and Europe, they are expanding their team to support large-scale data science and modelling initiatives. They are looking for a Software Engineer specialising in Analytics & Insights to design and build enterprise analytics products. The role focuses on developing high-quality datasets, dashboards and analytical tools that help business stakeholders make better decisions using data.
This job is at the cutting edge of integrating AI into data analytics. You will need to be able to use AI to cut workload in terms of building dashboards etc, to free up more time for analysing data and gaining the insights behind it.

Our client's preference is to have someone based a reasonable commute from either Sheffield or London. However, most of the work can done remotely so outstanding candidates in other UK locations can be considered, and any travel for meetings and events can be expensed.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and build analytics datasets and semantic layers for enterprise reporting
  

• Develop dashboards and analytical products used by business stakeholders
  

• Translate business questions into measurable metrics, dashboards and insights
  

• Design reusable analytics assets such as curated datasets, metrics frameworks and analytical models
  

• Implement CI/CD pipelines for analytics workflows
  

• Work with enterprise data platforms to deliver scalable analytics solutions
  

• Ensure strong data quality, governance and lineage practices
  

• Use AI-assisted tools and LLMs to accelerate analytics workflows, documentation and insight generation
  

Required Skills

• Strong SQL and data modelling skills
  

• Experience building analytics datasets and semantic layers
  

• Hands-on dashboard development using Tableau, Power BI, Looker, ThoughtSpot or similar tools
  

• Experience with enterprise data platforms such as Snowflake, Databricks or BigQuery
  

• Proficiency in Python or similar scripting languages for analytics, automation or data manipulation
  

• Experience implementing CI/CD pipelines using Git, automated testing and deployment pipelines
  

• Understanding of enterprise data governance, lineage and data quality practices
  

• Strong ability to translate business questions into metrics, dashboards and actionable insights
  

Nice to Have

• Experience designing reusable metrics frameworks or analytical models
  

• Experience working in large enterprise data environments
  

• Experience using LLMs or AI-assisted tools to accelerate analytics workflows
  

• Experience building analytics products directly for business stakeholders
  

Ideal Candidate

• Analytics Engineer or BI-focused Software Engineer
  

• Comfortable working between data engineering and business analytics
  

• Able to translate complex enterprise data into clear dashboards and insights
  

• Strong communication skills with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  

Unfortunately our client is unable to sponsor work visas, either now or in the future.