Senior Analytics Engineer

Our client is seeking a Senior Analytics Engineer
Long term contract, 12 months initially and the position will be hybrid and will require weekly visits to site in London.

As a Senior Analytics engineer you are a subject matter expert, who designs & builds analytics solutions and mentors junior engineers. You are also the key person to convert the Vison and Data and Analytics Strategies into IT solutions and deliver them.

A snippet of what you'll be doing:

• Design, build and implement POCs, prototypes and full-fledged UX solutions and strategies
• Communicate with key stakeholders to drive clarification of requirements and to promote UX designs and solutions
• Support the design, e.g., by analyzing user journeys and drive towards simplification and automation
• Coach and develop other UX analysts

Skills and requirements:

• Knowledge of and experience with design & prototyping tools
• Expert knowledge in QlikSense & Qlik Cloud Analytics to deliver complex, fast moving datasets to high value trading teams.
• Expert knowledge of authoring/troubleshooting SQL/Azure/Databricks queries
• Expert knowledge and application of general and tool specific connectivity, data modeling, source data procurement strategies (Database, import/cached), security configuration, performance tuning, usage of right visuals, layout optimization, mobility, scripting and integrating advanced analytics into visualization tools
• Must have experience in working with AGILE, KANBAN methodologies. Able to run a sprint

Nice to have Skills

• Gas/Power Trading knowledge - Short-term trading, physical assets trading (CCGT, Wind, Solar, Battery)
• Risk - Modelling & understanding of risk & risk management.
• Quantitative Skills - Statistical methods to check and investigate numerical data for practical insights.
• Commodity Modelling - Energy (power, gas, environmental products) and meteorology.
• Skilled at one of the following secondary visualization tools - (at least one of the following – (1) Power BI and Azure Analysis Services (AAS), (2) Spotfire, (3) SAP Analytics Cloud)
• Knowledge of cloud data engineering technologies

Michael Bailey International is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.