💼 Job
Graduate Data Analyst - Belfast - Summer/ Autumn 2024 Start
Kainos
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12d ago
💼 Graduate Job
Belfast
AI generated summary
- The candidate for the Graduate Data Analyst role must have a relevant bachelor's degree, experience in data gathering and analysis, understanding of data models and visualization techniques, strong communication skills, proficiency in SQL and XML/JSON, ability to prioritize and meet deadlines, collaboration skills, and familiarity with tools such as Power BI, Tableau, and Google Analytics. Desirable skills include experience with structured and unstructured data, reviewing and improving data models, mentoring junior colleagues, combining qualitative and quantitative datasets, and system performance analysis.
- The Graduate Data Analyst at Kainos in Belfast will work on projects, collaborating with customers to produce insight products, reports, dashboards, and visualizations. They will also contribute to understanding existing data structures and help make a meaningful difference in people's lives.
Description
- At Kainos, we recognise many of the greatest ideas and innovations come from a diverse mix of minds, backgrounds and experiences, and we are committed to cultivating an inclusive working environment that drives changes in Technology. Therefore, we particularly welcome applications from groups who are typically under-represented in this sector including women, non-binary and transgender people.
Requirements
- Essential:
- Currently studying towards, or already obtained, at least a Level 6 bachelor’s degree in a relevant subject.
- Experience of discovering, gathering and wrangling data from various data sources for analysis.
- Able to understand the client’s business challenge and work with colleagues to identify data visualisation and dashboard approaches to help address the customer needs. Understand how to identify missed opportunities for data insight.
- Basic understanding of data model and modelling techniques.
- Clear written and verbal communications; able to explain findings and techniques to a non-technical audience.
- Awareness for the importance of stakeholder engagement and understands how to gather data requirements.
- Familiar with the production of data analysis outputs such as profiling reports, data quality reports, etc.
- Good SQL knowledge; able to read and understand XML and JSON.
- Able to advise managers on the estimated effort and technical implications of data insight products.
- Ability to prioritise and work to deadlines.
- Ability to work collaboratively with others.
- Desirable:
- Experienced with structured and unstructured data.
- Able to review and comment on data models– for example pointing out why models are defective and suggesting improvements.
- Able to give feedback and mentor more junior colleagues.
- Experience of Power BI and Tableau.
- Experience of Google Analytics (other web analytics tools).
- Experience in combining qualitative and quantitative datasets
- Experience of system performance analysis.
Education requirements
Currently Studying
Bachelors
Area of Responsibilities
Data
Responsibilities
- As a Graduate Data Analyst with Kainos, you will work on projects where you can make a real difference to people’s lives – the lives of people you know. After taking part on the seven-week Data Academy you will be responsible for matching the needs of data insight with understanding of the available data. Data analysts work closely with customers to produce insight products including reports, dashboards and visualisations but also contribute to project understanding of existing data structures so that inputs and outputs are fully understood.
- Most of our work comes through repeat business and direct referrals, which comes down to the quality of our people. You’ll have great support and mentoring, balanced with the experience of being given real, meaningful work to do, to help you truly develop both technically and professionally.
- Upon completion of the 12-month Early Careers Programme, you will have gained knowledge and skills to help transform the organization and set you on the path to becoming the next generation of leaders at Kainos. Fun fact - 11 of our 17 leadership team members have graduated from our Early Careers Programme!
Details
Work type
Full time
Work mode
office
Location
Belfast