Performance Analyst - INSIGHT & ANALYTICS

Location: Bristol, Manchester or London

Overview

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government. We are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.

Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:

• joining up public sector services
• harnessing the power of AI for the public good
• strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure
• elevating leadership and investing in talent
• funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation
• committing to transparency and driving accountability

We are home to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (I.AI), the world-leading GOV.UK and at the forefront of coordinating the UK’s geospatial strategy and activity. We lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government.

We’re part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and employ more than 1,000 people all over the UK, with hubs in Manchester, London and Bristol.

The Government Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, you’ll be working with some of the world’s most highly-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale.

Join us for rewarding work that makes a difference across the UK. You\'ll solve some of the nation’s highest-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need

As a Performance Analyst you :

• are proficient in a wide range of tools and ensure that the team is equipped with the required skills according to the strategy set out by the Lead Performance Analyst
• are skilled and experienced at carrying out the day-to-day activities of a performance analyst, including visualising and communicating insight, while also carrying out increasingly complex analysis working with other teams where necessary
• are actively contribute to the performance analysis community within their department or organisation, while forging links with other analytical disciplines and up-skill others in analysis where possible and appropriate
• have experience of working on GA4 data layer implementations from start to finish, including planning, designing schema, deployment, and ongoing optimisation. Good working understanding of GA4’s architecture, event tracking, and custom dimensions/metrics
• have experience feeding into data architecture plans that ensures accurate and reliable data collection. Experience in setting up and maintaining data validation processes specific to GA4, with the ability to contribute to data processing pipelines that create clean, and useful analytics outputs

Person specification

We’re interested in people who:

• can demonstrate strong proficiency with digital analytics platforms, such as Google Analytics (specifically GA4) working with high volumes of data
• are experienced using analytical environments to evaluate and analyse data, especially in GCP (Google Cloud Platform), for example tools such as Google BigQuery, Dataform, and other APIs
• possess experience of working in an agile, project-based environment, focussed on delivering user needs
• succeed in developing implementation strategy, roadmaps, measurement frameworks, instrumentation, quality assurance, administration and analysis
• understand and have practical experience of using different data tools to transform and analyse different data sets. Understanding of and practical experience with data analysis and visualisation tools, e.g. Looker Studio or Tableau and languages e.g. SQL or python.
• can gather and understand technical requirements. Is able to work collaboratively with developers and other data professions to support building suitable technical solutions such as analytics tracking or data pipelines
• demonstrates strong attention to detail when working with data to ensure accuracy and reliability

Sponsorship

DSIT cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. DSIT holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Analyst, Information Technology, and Design

Industries

• Government Administration and Government Relations Services