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Data Dashboard Engineer - Submarines

Full time

Derby

An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Data Dashboard Engineer to join our Service Data Centre. The Rolls-Royce Submarines business is faced with once in a generation opportunities for business growth. Alongside this we need to continue to support our customer, the Royal Navy, to keep the existing fleet of submarines safe and available for operation.

To achieve these goals the business is increasingly reliant on high quality data, therefore we must continue to protect our critical data and to build a digitally enabled business that makes fast and assured decisions based on data. The Data Dashboard Engineer role will join the Service Data Centre to help drive value from data across the Submarines business. You will work with colleagues to understand business problems and needs, implement analysis solutions and visualisation outcomes that support improved decision making for the users. You will understand how to apply technologies such as Cognos and PowerBI to solve data problems and to develop innovative dashboards and data tools, providing meaningful insight to our critical products, enabling us to support the in-service submarine fleet more effectively.

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

This role is based within the Service Data Centre, a critical part of the business for enabling a safe and capable Royal Navy submarine fleet through data products and insights.

We'll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It's a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we're all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

What you will be doing

Within this role you will be helping to enable a data driven culture through the delivery of high quality dashboard and reporting using tools such as Cognos and PowerBI.

Provide knowledge to the business to help articulate the benefits of data reports and dashboardsHelp to deconstruct and understand existing reporting requirementsAdvise on reporting requirements and recommend analyticsUnderstanding how to analyse, cleanse, join and transform data to enable users to reliably deliver value from data sources.Planning, designing, documenting and conducting tests of the implementations, correcting errors and re-testing to achieve an acceptable resultWho we're looking for:

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

To be successful in this role you will need:

Degree level education in Mathematics, Scientific, Computing or Engineering discipline or equivalent experienceExpertise knowledge and understanding of PowerBI, IBM Cognos Analytics suite, Cognos Framework Manager, Reporting and Dashboard capability.Experience of working in an agile environment, within a self-organising team.Experience of collaborating with diverse stakeholders, using verbal and written communication methodsAppreciation of how to manage and govern the data products including security, archiving, structure and storageExperience in designing solutions using databases and data storage technologyExperience of using SQL (desirable)We are an equal opportunities employer. We're committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we'll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

To work for the Rolls-Royce Submarines business an individual has to hold a Security Check clearance. Rolls-Royce will support the application for Security Clearance if you do not currently already have this in place. Due to the nature of work the business conducts and the protection of certain assets we can only progress applications from individuals who are a UK national or, in MoD approved cases, a dual national.

Job Category

Software Systems

Posting Date

05 Jun 2025; 00:06

Posting End Date

12 Jun 2025PandoLogic. Keywords: Data Engineer, Location: Derby, ENG - DE23 8NX

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