At GEOLYTIX we seek new and innovative ways to make spatial analytics accessible, exciting and indispensable. Our customers span the retail, financial, property, leisure and food & beverage industries, across the world.
We build innovative solutions to support our clients to make better decisions combining various forecasting methods and statistical models, GIS and web tools to create bespoke solutions. We are always looking to do things better.
We have fun and value every member of our team.
Are you our next Senior Data Analyst?
About the role
As a Senior Data Analyst at Geolytix you will be:
- Combining internal, proprietary, client, and open source data (as appropriate) to:
- Build and update complex geodata products, e.g. annual population estimates and disposable income projections
- Model customer demand
- Continually looking for ways to evolve our existing data products, systems and processes
- Leading on the creation of new data products
- Researching data sources to use to build novel new global data products, and improving our existing global data product offer
- Quality Assuring input and output data – ensuring that Geolytix only deliver only robust outputs to our clients
- Supporting junior data analysts with;
- Technical queries
- Creating, exploring and choosing appropriate analysis methodologies
- Coaching and introducing new analytical techniques
- QA
- Working with multiple teams around the business to ensure they have the most meaningful data with which to solve client problems
- Willing to share and discuss your outputs and processes with others, both internal to the business and clients
- Support and uphold the standards within our database infrastructure
About You
- You’re already an experienced data analyst – your idea of a good day is receiving huge amounts of data, transforming it, and making sense of it
- You enjoy problem solving
- You are creative, and flexible in your use of different methodologies and techniques to complete the given task
- You have experience in exploring and using multiple different techniques to create location data products
- You have a good understanding of demographic and economic data
- You enjoy hearing about how different retail businesses ‘work’ - and the business problems we can help with. You enjoy retail.
- You are quick and efficient at manipulating data in SQL and other programming languages, anything you don’t know you can quickly grasp
- You care about your code. You know your way around git and how to productionise processes you have built.
- You’re a team player, and by nature collaborative as you will work
- Ideally you know your way around a GIS (not essential)
- You are resident in, and have a right to work in, the UK
Your qualifications and experience
- You are a pro at using SQL for data manipulation
- Coding skills in at least one of Python, R, Scala, C, Java or JS
- Data Analysis experience, ideally using customer and demographic data
- A university degree – numbers based, Computer Science or Geography - not essential
- Relevant industry sector knowledge ideal but not essential
- A strong communicator with the ability to work with colleagues remotely across the globe
- Be able to provide evidence of attention to detail, proactivity and managing deadlines
Other stuff
Our offices are in Leeds and Clerkenwell, London. The role is located in Leeds. Competitive salary. We’re a young and growing company who embrace flexible working; full time or part time, family friendly hours and/or working from home days considered
- Flexible working
- City Centre office location
- Vitality Health membership
- Great maternity and paternity schemes
- Cycle to work scheme
- Tusker Car Purchase scheme
- Bonus scheme
- Opportunity for all employees to become a shareholder on our long term incentive plan
Interested?
If you are interested in this role and are looking for your next challenge, please send your CV and cover letter to careers@geolytix.com. No agencies please.
Please add Ref:SDA012025 to your application.
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