Statistician / Data Analyst
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Job Description- 3542022705078;-6.27092981338501;Co. Dublin ,
Location: Dublin 1, Hybrid working
Contract / Permanent: FTC 24 Months, with further extension.
Start date: 6th October 2025
Nature of the Services Required – comprehensive description of the Client’s requirements
The Data Analyst (Senior) will play a lead role in ensuring that the data analysis, insights and visualisations required to support the Department, are presented in a format which enables the business owners to make decisions and recommendations to allow project progression.
The Data Analyst (Senior) will integrate into the Data Office team, so will for example, attend morning standup meetings, align to Data Office work practices and provide direct updates from work items and projects to the IT Data Office team.
The Data Analyst (Senior) will provide services alongside other internal department staff under the direction of a Senior Data Analytics Manager from the Data Office and will be required to provide services closely with other development teams, some of which may include external contractors.
Data Analyst Roles and Responsibilities:
Work directly with business nominated project leads and/or project business analyst to understand project business problem statement(s) and once agreed, distilling this down to data items which can assist in business decision making.Perform data profiling, and preparation of results and outputs of profiling analysis including visualisations. This will require a high level of technical proficiency in SQL and Python.
Execution of data validation, cross matching between datasets, outlier identification and general data quality assessment activities
Design and develop basic ‘modelling scenarios’ which take business defined rules, applies them to a dataset(s)/files and generates model outputs – ‘what if’ type analysis.
Identify, analyse, interpret and communicate trends or patterns in complex datasets to both a technical and non-technical audience.
Extract key messages from single/multiple data sets add present them in an appropriate format to the relevant audience in line with Department templates/standards.
Development of accompanying data documentation which is robust and clear to support the data work items including basic data dictionary/column descriptor documents related to work items datasets.
Facilitate knowledge transfer into the Departments IT Data Office team by allowing shadowing and/or holding walkthrough sessions as part quarterly team meetings.
Experience Level Required:
It is a mandatory requirement that the proposed Data Analyst (Senior) has equivalent experience at senior level i.e. 7+ years’ experience.
It is a mandatory requirement that the Resource proposed hold the following qualifications or equivalents: Level 8 or higher NFQ qualification in Computer Science, Statistics, Informatics, Information Systems or related field.
Key Deliverable:
A key overall aspect of each data delivery is the preparation and presentation of results an- This vacancy is suitable for Remote/Blended working
- Sector:
- Experienced [Non-Managerial]
Candidate Requirements
Essential- Minimum Experienced Required (Years): 7
- Minimum Qualification:Level 7 (incl Diploma & Ordinary Bachelor Degree)
- Ability Skills:Skilled Trade(s), Technical IT
- Competency Skills:Teamwork, Time Management