Data Analyst

Location

Billingham, County Durham | United Kingdom

Job description

Are you ready to play a key role in propelling organisations on their data driven journey?

Sword builds foundations across platforms, data, and applications and our people have a shared passion for technology and solving complex business challenges for our customers.

Our core values and culture are based on caring about our people, investing in training and career development and building inclusive teams where we are all encouraged to contribute to achieve success. Our people and culture are our highest priority in all we do. Measurable feedback is captured annually to ensure we continue to improve and develop our offering.

If these values are important to you, and you are looking to take the next step in your career with an established and growing company, we’re delighted to share a newly created opportunity to join the Sword team in the role of Data Analyst.

Sword Engineering information Services, collaborate with organisations that are looking to extract value from their engineering information. Through our market-leading Phusion SaaS platform, engineers are empowered to model, capture, and manage information in a unified and easily accessible format. This information can then be utilized to execute projects, operations, and drive industrial transformation.

We are looking for a Data Analyst to process a wide range of data as it arrives directly from the client, preparing the data for the project teams to work on. They are effectively undertaking the first phase of the data cleansing process. The data arrives in various formats, including Excel spreadsheets, Access databases etc. and must be prepared and loaded into our in-house software.

This role will be onsite in our Billingham office, UK.

Requirements

At Sword, we are proud of cultivating a respectful workplace that values the contribution of all our people, whatever their background or stage in their career. We welcome your application should you hold the right core experience, knowledge and your application sufficiently outlines your relevant skills or transferrable skills in this area. If you believe you're qualified, but don't "check all the boxes", please still submit an application and we will explore your experience further.

Here are the key skills and experience relevant to this role:

• Implement generic processes for the import of all information sets provided by the Client
• Implement generic processes for the export of all information sets requested by the Clients for use in their enterprise / corporate systems
• Support the development of a comprehensive suite of generic reports for both external (Client facing) and internal customers.
• Use SQL Server tools (SSIS, SSRS, etc)
• ‘Can do’ attitude and be able to come up with lateral solutions to problems
• Using your technical capabilities together with understanding of engineering / project requirements to feed into future strategies
• Ensuring quality, continuous improvement and development, standards and procedures are adhered to Control the receipt of all raw engineering data
• Prepare the data for import into the database
• Move the data into the raw data tables
• Carry out all data manipulation tasks whilst establishing and preserving the requisite audit trail
• Become knowledgeable with data manipulation and reporting tools and to provide a data support role to all projects.
• Pro-actively improve and develop existing tools and techniques to improve the performance of the company

Experience:

• Previous experience of managing and manipulating large quantities of data would be advantageous. A good understanding of database management would be advantageous.
• A good working knowledge of SQL.
• A working knowledge of Access and Excel.
• SQL server knowledge is desirable.
• Previous experience of working in an Engineering environment would be advantageous.

Benefits

Our people are supported and encouraged to develop their career with Sword through their own personal learning and development plan, alongside a competitive salary, pension, private health, wellbeing and insurance schemes, a flexible approach to working, and employee assistance programme.

Sword is committed to maintaining a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. All applicants receive equal consideration for employment regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity status, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation.

If we can do anything to help make the hiring process more accessible, please let our talent acquisition team know when you apply so we can support any adjustments

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