Senior Analytics Engineer
Hybrid – MOD Abbey Wood, Bristol, BS34 8JH
Full Time, Permanent
Band 4 / £60,000 - £70,000 (dependent on experience)

Here at Serco, we’re looking for a Senior Analytics Engineer to design and build high-quality, analysis-ready data products and enterprise dashboards that enable trusted decision-making across UK&E. You will define and implement semantic modelling standards, ensure consistency and reliability of data products, and act as a specialist advisor on analytics engineering, BI consumption models, and reporting.

Working on the Armed Forces Recruitment Service contract, you will play a key role in shaping scalable, governed, and reusable data assets that support enterprise reporting, self-service analytics, and advanced insight generation.

As part of this you’ll:

• Build/ design advanced dashboards and reporting solutions (Power BI, Databricks or similar) to support KPI, operational, strategic, and ad-hoc insight needs
• Design and maintain enterprise semantic models (dimensional, canonical, and lakehouse gold layers) ensuring consistency and scalability
• Publish certified, governed datasets and define standards for BI consumption, enabling reliable self-service analytics
• Partner with data engineering to improve data quality, enforce security standards, and maintain lineage, metadata, and documentation
• Implement and optimise data pipelines and analytics models using Spark, Delta Lake, and cloud-native tooling
• Coach and support analytics engineers and analysts through code reviews, mentoring, and best practice adoption
• Translate stakeholder requirements into clear, prioritised, high-value data products while challenging ambiguity and assumptions
• Act as an SME for analytics solutions across Azure/AWS, PowerBI and Databricks-based environments
• Drive performance, cost efficiency, and scalability of analytics solutions through continuous optimisation
• Promote modern analytics engineering standards including CI/CD, testing frameworks, and reusable patterns

What you’ll need to do the role:

• Strong BI experience across Microsoft stack (Power BI, SQL Server/SSRS, Excel); exposure to Tableau, Qlik, SAP Analytics Cloud or Domo desirable
• Strong communication skills, able to translate complex technical concepts for non-technical stakeholders
• Expertise in semantic modelling, metrics layers, and certified dataset design for BI consumption
• Practioner in data modelling (dimensional and lakehouse architectures) and enterprise dataset design
• Working knowledge in Data Engineering (Delta Lake, performance tuning, orchestration, schema evolution)
• Strong understanding of cloud data platforms (Azure or AWS) and secure, scalable data architectures
• Experience implementing data quality frameworks, validation, profiling, and documentation standards
• Strong analytical and data synthesis capability
• 5+ years’ experience in enterprise-scale analytics, BI, or analytics engineering environments
• Proven experience delivering production-grade analytics solutions in complex organisations
• Cloud certifications (Azure, AWS, Databricks) - desirable
• SC clearance (or willingness to obtain it)

What we offer:

• Flexible working considered
• Pension – 6%
• Chance to contribute to innovation in the public services
• A company passionate about diversity and inclusion
• Serco discounts which include cinema, merlin entertainment and online shopping discounts, and discounts on mobile phone plans and leisure centre memberships.
• A range of benefits to support the health and wellbeing of you and your family such as Employee Assistance Programme, Simply Health Cash Plans, and more.
• A wealth of career development training to suit your future aspirations. These range from role specific training, leadership coaching, formal study and much more to support you to build your career with Serco.
• A safe and supportive culture.

About Serco
At Serco, not only is the nature of the work we do important, everyone has an important role to play, from caring for vulnerable people to managing complex public services. We are a team of 50,000 people responsible for delivering essential public services around the world in areas including defence, transport, justice, immigration, healthcare and citizen services. We are innovators, committed to redesigning and improving public services for the benefit of everyone.

By joining Serco you will have unlimited access to our Global Employee Networks – SercoInspire (Gender), SercoEmbrace (Multicultural), SercoUnlimited (Disability) and In@Serco (LGBT & Networks). Serco Employee Networks, led by colleagues who are passionate about diversity, inclusion and belonging.

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Please click on the apply button to complete your application. Occasionally we receive a large volume of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.

At Serco, we see people first and foremost for their performance and potential. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. As such we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool. We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working. We operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly Disability Confident Leader employers and holder of the Gold Inclusive Employer Standard. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. For help with your application please contact 0345 010 4000.

At Serco we support fair access to employment for those with unspent criminal convictions through the ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some may be exempt due to the nature of the role and the security clearance required). Please contact our recruitment team directly on 0345 010 4000 to discuss.