Senior Data Analyst (London Area)

As people increasingly move across channels and platforms, Kantar Media’s data and audience measurement, targeting, analytics and advertising intelligence services unlock insights to inform powerful decision-making.

Working with panel and first-party data in over 80 countries, we have the world’s fastest growing cross-media measurement footprint, underpinned by versatility, scale, technology and expertise, to drive long-term business growth for our clients and partners.

Job Title: Senior Data Analyst

Location: London, Grays Inn Road

Full time/Permanent/Hybrid

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About the Project/Role

Assistance with and assessment of system processing, configuration and data inputs and outputs for new and early-stage services.

In a challenging environment it is essential that new and existing services process and deliver reliable and consistent information. The role of the Service QA Analyst is to understand and assess the data processing touchpoints with the objective of ensuring both initial and ongoing quality levels. The role requires developing familiarity with configuration options, data inputs, processing and the expectations of data consumers within the pipeline including and output.

The Senior Data Analyst will work with other team members on specified service deliveries and report to the appropriate Work Stream lead. Data assessments will be conducted using guidelines developed by both by the analyst team and the Data Science group.

Job Role Requirements

• Understand overall architecture and function of Kantar Audience Measurement systems
• Develop functional knowledge of individual components
• Review and assess data inputs and outputs against service requirements
• Understand component and system configuration requirements for a service
• Contribute to developing tools and processes for checking and measuring service correctness
• Analyse and identify problems and assist in understanding causes and fixes

Profile/Skills

The role will require a degree of technical knowledge to allow navigation of systems and assessments using IT tools.

Essential

• Familiarity with IT environments and data processing
• Ability to identify, describe and communicate issues
• Database and SQL knowledge
• Structured approach to problem solving and analysing information
• Python or similar skills (basic/intermediate)

Advantageous

• Experience with cloud-based systems and processing – in particular Azure
• Experience with examining and understanding data processing issues (e.g. testing)
• Knowledge of Linux systems, shell scripting and command line and file-based systems
• Knowledge of Cloud based environments and processing (e.g. Azure), storage explorer etc.
• Experience with media research – particularly TV, Internet or Radio audience measurement.

At Kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clients. Kantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate based on age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristics.

At Kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear, and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted, and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into consideration. We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

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