Business Data Analyst

Business Data Analyst

£38000 - £42000 per year + excellent benefits (30 days holiday, study for free etc)

Hybrid – Very occasional travel to our Coventry head office or one of our campuses

Perm - Full Time

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Arden University

We are an aspirational and multi-award-winning university, delivering rapid growth with ambitious plans to disrupt the HE sector through our passion for innovation and digital education. Our vision is to become the first-choice university for career-focused lifelong learners worldwide, ensuring that everyone, everywhere can access higher education. There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines, forge worldwide partnerships, and expand our locations.

The IT Department

The Business Data Analyst sits in the Enterprise Architecture Team within our Technology Department that is crucial to making sure our employees and students can work effectively, deliver projects, find the right solutions and ensure we develop the technology that will make the biggest difference. Our IT team is made up of around 60 employees with a vast range of skills from Software Development to IT Operations and Security. Our IT Department values employee development and we have lots of great examples of employee progression and promotions within the team.

The Role – Business Data Analyst

The Business Data Analyst will deliver data architecture strategy as part of a change process, bringing together people, process and best practice to embed data operating models or plan and monitor remediation activities that fulfil business objectives and adhere to architectural policy.

This role will be responsible for the creation and maintenance of relevant artefacts and repositories to support the Design Authority function and ensure visibility of areas of data risk and opportunity.

The Business Data Analyst offers technical support and guidance for specific data initiatives, playing a key role in implementing Data Architecture direction and strategy to effectively support the current and future information needs of the business..

This role also supports the creation of data policy to ensure it aligns with the wider organisations modern, scalable data architectures, models and technologies to enhance data accuracy and enable key stakeholders to access critical information through flexible visualisation solutions to provide insight and gain business advantage.

As part of this role, they will work as part of an empowered team of data experts to help deliver their plans, offering their support, and experience to ensure best practise processes are embedded in all activities.

About You

To be successful as a Business Data Analyst you must have:

• Excellent data analysis and handling skillsets.
• Good understanding of cloud technologies relating to data and associated integrations.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills — able to identify key issues and patterns from partial/conflicting data; with the ability to take a broad perspective to problems and assimilate new, less obvious solutions.
• Strong stakeholder management skills
• Experience of data mapping and analysis processes.
• Experience in applying relevant Business Analysis techniques such as use cases, user stories, focus groups etc. in the elicitation process.
• Experience in a range of testing methodologies, such as User Acceptance Testing Experience of using process mapping tools such as Visio to map as is/to be business processes.
• Experience in assisting technical/business teams by identifying improvements and solutions that help to ensure the delivery of project benefits, whilst also understanding the impact on users.

Desirable Skills and Experience

• Understanding of IT systems used in higher education, such as Student Records, Finance, Office 365/SharePoint
• Experience of process mapping and process re-engineering for business processes and underpinning technical solutions
• Cloud integrations
• Azure, Fabric or AWS certifications or training
• ITIL Foundation.
• BA or Project Management qualification e.g. PRINCE2 or Agile PM
• Evidence of Data or Analytical certification

Why Arden:

At Arden, you will become a part of a passionate and dedicated team who are committed to removing unnecessary barriers to learning and making education more accessible. Our people work hard to ensure our students journeys are the best they can possibly be, as such we want to reward our people with fantastic benefits. Employees benefit from:

• 30 days holiday
• Additional leave before Christmas and New Year
• Study any Arden course for free, with generous discount for all family and friends
• Our ‘Golden Ticket’ which allows you to gift anyone in your life a free Arden education
• Plus, other competitive benefits !

Arden’s values:

Stand out, Progressive, Accessible, Resourceful, Kindness, reflect who we are as an institution, a team and as individuals. If they also reflect you and you are excited by the chance to be the driving, creative force within a growing business, we want to hear from you.

There has never been a more exciting time to join Arden University, as we expand into new disciplines and locations. For the full job description, click here, or to start your journey with us, click apply!

Closing Date: Wednesday 19th February

We reserve the right to close this vacancy before the specified closing date should we receive sufficient applications or in order to respond to business needs. In order to avoid missing an opportunity to apply please submit your application as early as possible.

Equity, Diversity & Inclusion:

Arden University is proud to be a Disability Confident Employer. This means that if you have a disability, as defined by the Disability Equality Act 2010, you may be guaranteed an interview if you meet the essential criteria for the role.

If you wish to be considered under this scheme, you can indicate via the application form below. By doing so, you are also consenting for this information to be shared with the hiring team. For more details on what qualifies as a disability under the Disability Equality Act 2010, please refer to the guidance here.

As an Equal Opportunity Employer we celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. Therefore, we make sure that our recruitment and selection processes never discriminate based upon people's age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances, and actively welcome applications from all groups.