Commercial Data Engineer

East Midlands Trains
Derby
7 months ago
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We are proud to beOne Teamat East Midlands Railway (EMR). We are passionate aboutkeeping people safe, delighting our customers,doing the right thingand putting customers at the heart of our sustainable railway for the East Midlands. With over 2,600 employees, our people are the reason we are so successful and our Commercial team make a crucial contribution to this. Eight times accredited as a Top Employer and Gold accredited for Inclusive Employers Standards, we value our people and are dedicated to making sure that everybody feels empowered to bring their authentic self to work.

At EMR we want to proactivelyembrace diversityacross our workforce and recognise that we are under-represented in some areas. We’re therefore taking positive steps to promote a positive and inclusive culture and we welcome applications from everyone to help us better represent our communities.

We have an exciting opportunity to join #TeamEMR as aCommercial Data EngineerThis role reports to the Head of Commercial Strategy and is based in our head office in Derby.

Aligning to the overarching data strategy across EMR, you will play a key role in helping to implement this strategy within the Commercial team and supporting the wider data community across the business. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who is passionate about using the power of data to drive transformational change and make a measurable difference.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

Work with colleagues across the Commercial team to identify challenges and opportunities and design data solutions to address them. Analyse current workflows to identify opportunities for automation, optimisation and value creation through improved use of data. Work closely with the EMR data team to extract, transform, and load data from various sources into the EMR Data Analytics Platform, ensuring data quality and integrity is always maintained. Develop and build sophisticated, insightful and user-friendly business intelligence dashboards. Develop and maintain a roadmap for improving the integration, visibility and interrogation of data in the Commercial team. Apply project management tools and techniques to coordinate and apply governance to the development roadmap, using agile delivery principles to deliver quick wins and continual incremental improvements. Champion and promote the value of data, analytics and business intelligence systems across the business, demonstrating clear benefits from outputs created.

Key Skills & Experience

Educated to at least degree level or equivalent, with organisational experience in a similar role. Experience in sourcing data from disparate systems, with an excellent understanding of data transfer, loading, transformation, storage and interrogation. Experience working with cloud data platforms and databases, in particular Microsoft Azure. Able to create programming code from scratch in a variety of formats including SQL. Experience working with business intelligence and analytics systems, including Tableau and PowerBI. Knowledge of best practices for data visualisation and how to make data easy to understand, including for non-technical users. Ability to apply project management principles to plan and execute data projects successfully. Ability to interpret business requirements and develop data solutions to solve problems, generate insights or capture efficiencies. A willingness to take initiative, lead projects and handle multiple priorities whilst meeting deadlines. Self-motivation, positivity and determination to act as a data leader in the business, working well within a team and cross functionally. Strong organisation, analytical and communication skills.

As well as a competitive salary, we’ll also offer you:

32 days annual leave (including bank holidays), rising to 34 days after 2 years of service Free travel on East Midlands Railway and other train companies operated by Transport UK 75% discount on other national rail train companies, including for partners and dependants Discounted friends and family tickets on the EMR network Various personal development and progression opportunities

EMR has a hybrid working policy which is applicable for this role. This means the role can be based at home 2-3 days per week and in the office 2-3 days per week. Should you wish to work full time in the office this is also an option.

We are open minded to applications from people who wish to have flexible working. Many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise not to judge you for asking.

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