Data Analyst (SC + NPPV3 Cleared)

Croydon
2 months ago
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6 Month Contract

£(Apply online only)/day (Outside IR35)

Data Analyst needed with active SC Clearance and NPPV3 Security Clearance. 6 Month Contract based in Croydon (Hybrid).

Paying to £(Apply online only)/day (Outside IR35). Start ASAP in Feb/March 2026.

Hybrid Working - 3 days/week remote (WFH), and 2 days/week working on-site in the Croydon office, plus occasional travel to the Birmingham office.

A chance to work with a leading global IT transformation business specialising in delivering large-scale Government / Public Sector projects.

Key experience + tasks will include:

Data Analyst needed to transform raw data into meaningful insights, create performance dashboards + support strategic decision-making.

In-depth experience of Power BI, Tableau + ETL tools for reporting dashboards + data visualisation.

Strong SQL + advanced MS Excel skills for data extraction, analysis + modelling.

Experience of AWS Cost Management tools including: Cost Explorer, Budgets, CUR, tagging strategies.

Analysing AWS cloud spend, producing AWS Cloud cost reporting, forecasting, usage analysis, cost insights + expenditure tracking.

Able to analyse + interpret complex datasets and translate them into meaningful insights and reports.

Creating programme-level dashboards, reports + performance packs for key stakeholders and governance boards.

Analysing delivery progress, risks, dependencies + KPI metrics to support sound decision-making.

Producing programme level reporting packs, KPI dashboards + performance summaries.

Providing 'deep dive' analysis on delivery performance, operational trends + financial impacts.

Understanding of AWS Cloud architecture concepts including: EC2, Lambda, VPC, S3, RDS, CloudWatch.

Government / Public Sector / (url removed) transformation project experience preferred, especially Cloud migration

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