Senior Data Analyst

Base Location: 50% of your working week in one of the following locations: Reading/Forbury Place, Havant/Penner Road.

Salary: £61,620 – £72,592, with a range of benefits to support your finances, wellbeing and family.

Working Pattern: Permanent | Full Time | Flexible – First options available.

The role

As a Senior Data Analyst, you will join SSE's Data Platform team to drive analysis across complex data platforms and enable the delivery of high-impact, data-driven products. You will play a key role in SSE's transformation by shaping scalable, well-governed data products, ensuring strong data quality and lineage, and enabling better operational, commercial, and strategic decision‑making through trusted insights.

Working closely with Product Owners, data engineers, architects and senior business stakeholders, you will provide analytical leadership across the data lifecycle from defining requirements and data models to managing dependencies and risk. You will act as a trusted advisor, translating complex data and technical concepts into clear, value‑led outcomes, while also supporting the development of analysis capability and best practice across SSE's data community.

You will

• Lead the elicitation, analysis and documentation of complex business, product and data requirements across SSE’s data platforms, ensuring alignment with data strategy and regulatory obligations.
• Collaborate closely with Product Owners, Data Product Managers and delivery teams to shape and govern the data product backlog, providing leadership in backlog refinement and dependency management.
• Define data models, facts and dimensions, and produce complex data mapping and lineage artefacts to create scalable, reusable data products for multiple analytical and reporting uses.
• Provide senior oversight of testing and validation for data pipelines and analytics outputs, proactively managing data quality, lineage and governance risks to ensure compliance with standards and audit requirements.
• Translate complex data into actionable insights for senior stakeholders, oversee analytical outputs using tools such as Power BI, Databricks, SQL and Python, and coach analysts to enhance data analysis capability across the organisation.

You have

• Significant experience as a Senior Product Analyst, Product Analyst or Data Analyst working on complex, data‑enabled products within a large, enterprise environment.
• A strong, practical understanding of data platforms and analytics concepts, including data modelling, metrics, dimensional modelling, data quality management and lineage.
• Hands‑on experience with modern data and analytics tooling such as Databricks, SQL, Python, Power BI or equivalent cloud‑based platforms.
• Proven experience operating in Agile product‑led environments (Scrum / Kanban), including backlog ownership, refinement and prioritisation using tools such as Azure DevOps or Jira.
• Demonstrated ability to lead stakeholder engagement at multiple levels, translating complex technical and data concepts into clear, outcome‑focused narratives.

About SSE

SSE’s purpose is to provide energy needed today while building a better world of energy for tomorrow. We do this by developing, building, operating and investing in electricity infrastructure and businesses required for the energy transition. Our Transforming for Growth investment plan sees us investing £33bn in critical electricity infrastructure across the five years to 2030.

Flexible benefits to fit your life

Enjoy discounts on private healthcare and gym memberships. Wellbeing benefits include a free online GP and 24/7 counselling service. Interest‑free loans on tech and transport season tickets, or a new bike through our Cycle‑to‑Work scheme. Generous family entitlements such as maternity and adoption pay, and paternity leave.

Work with an equal opportunity employer

SSE will make any reasonable adjustments you need to ensure that your application and experience with us is positive. Please contact David.Brickell@sse.com or 01738 275 846 to discuss how we can support you.

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