GHD Advisory Insights & Analytics team – Movement Analytics Data Engineer
Join a global professional services leader. We are committed to solving the world’s biggest challenges in the areas of water, energy and urbanisation.
We are seeking people with curious minds and who have a passion for pragmatic data‑driven problem‑solving to join and craft our growing Strategic Insights & Analytics team. You will support delivery of some of the most challenging and exciting problems within the sector, from Rail and Highways to Telecoms and Future Energy. Hence, experience or passion in pursuing economic and community improvements in infrastructure is key.
As we are a small team, your responsibilities will vary across the entire project lifecycle. We operate a start‑up mentality and pace, with the support and resources of a global corporate. You will work in an agile and evolving environment. You will be encouraged to bring fresh ideas based on your previous experience and contribute to crafting our team from both a cultural and technical perspective. In return, we will support and encourage you to develop your capability and experience across many sectors, giving you the freedom to explore and pioneer your interests across a broad project and client base.
Our Movement Analytics Data Engineer role is initially focused on supporting our work with Virgin Media O2 (VMO2) where members of our team are embedded to develop and deliver their O2 Motion data insight products. This team sits within Product Engineering as is responsible for driving growth by establishing revenue streams through data delivery products. To achieve this, they take advantage of a dataset exceeding 15 billion mobile telecommunications events driving geographic, demographic and trend‑based analysis to a wide variety of end customers.
Your anticipated responsibilities include :
- Analysing and manipulating big mobile network data, to derive insights and craft technical solutions
- Building, maintaining and optimising automated production pipelines
- Delivering projects for clients, with a focus on business improvement
- Handling project tasks with a view to full agile / project management capability
- Contributing to overall solution development and road mapping, leading specific task solutions
- Using data and operational management techniques to improve operational performance
- To seek new opportunities to use data, with a business improvement focus
- Pro‑actively engaging with stakeholders to collect information, settle root causes of issues, improve domain knowledge, and develop relationships
- Understanding and considering the business impact of technical delivery within client’s organisations
- Clear and concise presentation of results and concepts through a variety of mediums, adapting the level of technical content to suit the intended audience
- Contributing to work winning activities
- Identifying additional opportunities for work that will deliver tangible customer benefit
- Articulating your views and honest perspectives through active listening and engaged participation
- Actively engaging with team growth activities and operational tasks
- Pursuing, with support, opportunities to improve your technical and non‑technical skills
About you
- Commercial experience using SQL (4 years) and Python (2 years) to manipulate large, complex datasets, including use of automated data processes and spatial queries
- Deployment of software or code to production environments with appropriate version and quality control
- Gathering requirements, creating solutions and developing roadmaps or methodologies to meet business need following a structured, logical approach
- Delivering performance improvement using a pragmatic and evidence‑based approach at a tactical or strategic level
- Strong ability to provide appropriate insights and recommendations through analysis and interpretation of data that resonate with partners
- Clear and detailed communication and presentational capability regarding technical concepts
- Readily engaging new and existing stakeholders to progress a concept or delivery
- Preparing deliverables such as analytical reports, dashboards, or presentations
- Knowledge and experience working with Agile methodologies
- Experience cleaning and creating expressive and analytics‑ready datasets
It will support your application if you can also demonstrate any combination of the following skills :
- Proficiency in using data visualisation tools such as Tableau
- Sector knowledge within either telecommunications, transport, retail, media or Smart Cities
- Proposing fresh ideas and concepts for exploitation
- Use of code version control systems (git) and issue tracking systems (JIRA)
- GIS experience
About GHD
Being the best that we can be is in our culture.
We are a family of smart, innovative, and creative problem solvers. In our employee‑owned company, everything feels like it matters more. Challenge us and help us come up with new solutions to ensure water, energy and urbanisation are made sustainable for generations to come.
Our Commitment to you
Commitment is a powerful word that defines how we do business, how we serve our clients and how we care for one another. We will support your needs by giving you the tools to do your best work and then recognise achievements. We will set your curiosity free to allow brilliant minds to do their best work. We will invest in new ideas, removing barriers where we can. Finally, we will encourage you to collaborate with thousands of diverse people across our global business.
Equality, diversity, and inclusion lies at the heart of our team culture. We operate a flat intellectual hierarchy meaning every voice is heard and has genuine influence. We believe deeply in diversity of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin, and experience, and we recognise the value this brings our collective team approach to solving challenging client problems.
Inclusion is hugely important to us and we want to ensure every team member can balance work around their unique personal circumstances. In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a wide variety of benefits to support you, including: 24 days paid leave with opportunity to purchase additional leave, matched pension contributions and family‑friendly flexible working. We will advocate for your professional development and provide access to formal education through the GHD Business School and practical application through technical delivery. We actively promote inclusion‑focussed initiatives, with the most recent example being the STEMazing accelerator mentoring programme for women in STEM.
What next?
If shortlisted, our interview approach is a two‑way learning experience. We will give you access to the leadership team and technical leads throughout the application process.
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