Senior Data Analyst – 9 Month FTC

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🇬🇧 United Kingdom – Remote

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📉 Data Analyst

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Nucleus Financial

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2006

💸 Finance

💳 Fintech

☁️ SaaS

Finance • Fintech • SaaS

Nucleus Financial is one of the UK's leading independent groups for investment platforms, products and wealthtech software, and the only large-scale group with a comprehensive range of bespoke platform solutions to meet the evolving needs of advisory and investment management firms of all sizes, as well as their clients. They offer adviser and customer-facing platforms (Nucleus Platform), retirement-focused adviser platform combining technology and pension expertise, a wrap platform (Nucleus Wrap), SIPPs via James Hay and Curtis Banks, enterprise solutions (Third Financial), and wealthtech services (Dunstan Thomas). The group administers £110bn assets under administration, serves 251k customers and ~5. 2k advice firms. Headquarters in Salisbury, UK. They provide digital capability, back-office integrations, regulatory and legal information, and BDM booking for demos. The company focuses on retirement and wealth management solutions for advisers and customers in the UK.

📋 Description

• Own, triage, size and prioritise the Change and reporting backlog, driving items through to completion • Translate business requirements into technical specifications and explain data constraints and options to Change stakeholders • Complete source profiling, mapping, model design and non-functional requirements analysis for larger data engineering work • Build, test and release defined reports, semantic models and data extracts using SQL, Power BI and Microsoft Fabric • Maintain visibility of backlog size, throughput and burn down, reporting progress to the Data Lead and Change stakeholders • Validate outputs, apply standards for definitions and reconciliation, and resolve discrepancies between reports • Handle day-to-day data requests while protecting delivery capacity • Support analysts and developers through specification review, peer review and knowledge sharing • Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups and retrospectives • Document delivered items, decisions and remaining backlog for handover to the permanent team • Deliver a measurable backlog burn down, completed reports and data outputs, build-ready specifications, documented definitions and reconciliation notes, regular progress reporting, and a clean handover

🎯 Requirements

• Strong SQL skills for complex analysis, query optimisation and reconciliation across systems • Experience building Power BI semantic models, DAX measures and reports • Practical experience with Microsoft Fabric, including Lakehouse, Warehouse, Data Pipelines, notebooks and semantic models, or strong equivalent cloud data platform experience • Ability to translate business requirements into technical specifications for data engineers • Experience owning and reducing a backlog, sizing work, prioritising with stakeholders and delivering to committed dates • Confidence working with Change, operations and senior stakeholders • Understanding of data governance principles, definitions, lineage and reconciliation • Awareness of data protection when outputs include personal or client data • Ability to mentor analysts and developers through review and knowledge sharing • Experience working in an Agile delivery environment • Experience in financial services, platforms or another regulated environment is desirable

🏖️ Benefits

• Fixed-term employment for nine months • Inclusive and diverse workplace culture • Recognition and rewards for employee contributions • Collaborative and partnership-oriented work environment