Associate Data Developer

About us

At National Grid, we light up the world by harnessing the unique strengths of our people. Join us as an Associate Data Developer to be part of a team that's driving forward the energy transition, creating a brighter, more sustainable future for all.

Unleash your superpower and bring energy to life.

National Grid is hiring a Associate Data Developer for our Customer Connections Team based in Warwick.

About the role

The Associate Data Developer role plays a big part in our Electricity Transmission Team, delivering actionable insight that drives business performance across the function.

Working with key stakeholders across Electricity Transmission, you will understand the key business challenges helping to determine the most impactful insight and translate this into business requirements. You will support in the management of insight delivery, consider the business readiness for insight implementation, and undertake necessary engagement to ensure the insight drives action and is continuously improved.

What you'll do

• Collaborate with Electricity Transmission (ET) to identify areas where insight would be beneficial in articulating and understanding business performance
• Analyse the business environment to determine insight scope, fully document business requirements and build a robust business case highlighting business value and drivers
• Identify opportunities to increase business value, leading by example to create thoughtful and considered intelligence, simplifying insight and ensuring alignment to ET strategic priorities 
• Manage the design and delivery of insight solutions that support Electricity Transmissions performance ambitions
• Ensure successful engagement with insight content, ensure required communication and any necessary training has been delivered to stakeholder groups 
• Understand our data governance and controls, ensure requirements are met during development of insight, and that data ethics has been considered throughout
• Analyse insight to identify trends, using business context to articulate business performance issues and suggest options to improve business outcomes
• Manage insight lifecycle, to ensure insight roadmap is managed, content remains relevant, and opportunities are identified for continuous improvement

What you'll need

• Able to form relationships with key stakeholders, acting as a business analyst to challenge and understand desired business outcomes and current performance
• Demonstrable evidence of developing and delivering performance related measures from data sets, this may include, understanding requirements, utilising advanced data mining, analysis, systems and programming logic, engagement and communication
• Experience in working within or project managing insight development, acting as a stakeholder contact and working within a team to deliver successful insight, able to understand risk and controls and to track and monitor these.
• Demonstrate understanding of the impact User Interface and User Experience in enabling successful insight, able to advise stakeholders in optimal visualisation solutions
• Experience in stakeholder and user engagement, considering communication requirements, and business readiness 
• Exposure & knowledge of how data in core Electricity Transmission systems i.e. Work and Asset Management system, Investment Management system etc. is structured and able to advise stakeholders in what is possible in insight delivery
• Knowledge and experience of visualisation and data transformation tools which may include: Business Objects universe design and reporting, Structured Query Language compilation (SQL), Tableau Desktop & Server, IBM InfoSphere, Microsoft Power BI, Microsoft Excel
• Experience of utilising analytical and problem solving skills to facilitate the analysis of large and/or complex data sets leading to recommendations for, and support of, improvement actions.

What you'll get

Starting salary of £41,048 - £48,683.50

• Annual Performance Based Bonus
• Hybrid working model between Home, Site and Office
• 26 days annual leave, plus eight statutory days 
• The option to buy additional or sell holiday days 
• Generous contributory pension scheme - we will double-match your contribution to a maximum company contribution of 12%
• Financial support to help cover the cost of professional membership subscriptions, course fees, books, exam fees and time off for study leave – so long as it’s relevant to your role
• Access to several flexible benefits such as a share incentive plan, salary sacrifice car and technology schemes, support via employee assistance lines and matched charity giving to name a few
• Family care benefits including a back-up care service for when your usual care arrangements fall through (six paid days each year as standard with the option to purchase further days)
• Access to a numerous apps which support health, fitness and wellbeing

More information

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) own the electricity transmission network in England and Wales. Every time you plug in your phone or flick a light switch, we’ve played a part. Not only are we responsible for delivering energy to millions of homes and businesses, we are also driving the move to cleaner energy, and the Government’s target of net zero emissions by 2050.

National Grid Electricity Transmission (NGET) is at the heart of energy in the UK. The electricity we provide gets the nation to work, powers schools and brings energy to life. Our energy network connects the nation, so it’s essential that it’s continually evolving, advancing, and improving.

In NGET we are passionate about both operating our network safely and providing highly reliable quality of supply for our customers. At the heart of achieving these outcomes is the effective control and operation of our network.

To find out more about us, please follow the link below:

https://www.nationalgrid.com/electricity-transmission/

The closing date for applications is 18/02/25

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