Title: BI Analyst/Developer
Department: Data & Insights
Location: Sheffield or London, including 3+ days per week in the office
Contact Type: Full time, permanent
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum

Tes is an international provider of software-enabled services passionate about using technology to make life easier for schools and teachers. All products and services are built with teachers and schools needs at the core, ensuring they are innovative, trusted education solutions.

Role overview:
As a BI Analyst / Developer at Tes, you will be an instrumental part of our data transformation journey. We’re changing the way that Tes utilises its data to empower our business to positively impact the education sector. You’ll work closely with our wider data team, as well as with a wide range of our business stakeholders to truly understand the requirements for our data products. This role is in the Data & Insights department.

Key Responsibilities:

• Engage with our Sales, Marketing, Product & Finance teams to understand current pain points in Insights provision, acting as a champion for a “data first” approach.
• Create, maintain and maximise relationships within the organisation - we employ a hybrid working model to achieve this – you’ll be based in one of the Tes UK offices for 3+ days a week.
• Define and maintain the pipelines that collect, clean, merge and aggregate raw data from a variety of sources into tables ready for consumption.
• Explore, manipulate, and visualise data to extract valuable insights and communicate them with purpose to stakeholders.
• Analyse and identify trends, patterns, and anomalies in data.
• Work with key stakeholders across the business to gather, refine and clarify requirements, and consistently apply an innovative approach.
• Solve business challenges as they arrive and be able to use data to influence decision making in the organisation.
• Understand and adapt to a wide range of datasets, a key part of the organisation’s history and growth plans involves business acquisition which brings challenges in data centralisation.

What will you need to succeed?

• Strong SQL skills (with a few years of applied experience).
• Experience with at least one BI / visualisation tool (e.g. Looker / Power BI / Tableau etc.)
• Knowledge of ETL/ELT tools (e.g. dbt / Fivetran etc.)
• An understanding of Data Governance principles, and the importance of maintaining data quality and providing accurate data and sound insights.
• An agile mindset – striving for realising value through MVPs and taking an iterative approach from there.
• A number of examples that demonstrate your ability to use your data and influencing skills to positively impact an organisation.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• The ability to speak business and tech, seamlessly translating between technical requirements and the needs of our stakeholders.
• A curious mind and a desire to always learn more.

It would be beneficial experience & knowledge of:

• The AWS stack, particularly Redshift.
• Python or R
• Working with senior stakeholders to influence change.
• Prior experience of data transformation projects.

What do you get in return?

• 25 days annual leave rising to 30
• 5% pension after probation
• State of the art city centre offices
• Access to a range of benefits via My Benefits World
• Discounted city centre parking
• Free eye care cover
• Life Assurance
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• EAP (Employee assistance programme)
• Monthly Tes Socials
• Access to an extensive Learning and Development menu

Who are Tes?
Tes has been supporting the education sector for over a century, growing and changing alongside the evolution of education. Today, Tes is focused on providing digital solutions to support school leaders and teachers with wellbeing, continuous professional development, safeguarding, SEND provision, flexibility through timetabling, and pupil behaviour management.

Our Vision is to power schools and enable great teaching worldwide, by creating intelligent online products and services to make the greatest difference in education.

Tes has over 13m teachers in its online community and working relationships with 25,000 schools in over 100 countries. Tes helps schools find the teachers they need via a range of recruitment solutions; brings new teachers into the profession through initial teacher training; provides teachers with continuous professional development and world class safeguarding training. It also offers a range of expert tools for the classroom from timetabling, SEND provision, and behaviour management solutions to dynamic staff surveying and wellbeing tools. Tes brings educators together online so they can share expertise and teaching resources and it provides them with vital information, research and analysis about education via its fully digital Tes Magazine.

Tes is a global company employing over 600 people and operating across 10 offices, including in London, Sheffield, Hong Kong, Sydney, and Dubai.

We are proud of our people centric culture where everyone is driven to achieve the same goal. We are an agile organization striving for continuous improvement. We invest in our people with extensive learning and development opportunities and support our colleagues with various mentoring and career enhancement programmes.

Tes Global will ensure all qualified applicants receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, colour, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin or on the basis of disability. We invite applicants to contact us directly to identify any additional support required.
www.tes.com/tesglobal