Data Analytics Lead

  • New Zealand
  • Auckland
  • Permanent
  • Excellent benefits on offer

Our client is a leader in the financial services sector, undergoing exciting technology change.

As part of this strategy, they are looking for a Data Analytics Lead who will help shape the future of their analytics capability.

They are building an enablement-led function that creates trusted enterprise data foundations, governed analytics, safe AI capability, and self-service enablement across the business. You’ll own the layer that connects the data platform to real business decisions.

Required Skills:

  • Leadership in analytics engineering, BI, or data insights, operating in an enablement-first model (not a centralized reporting factory)
  • Hands-on experience designing and operating a semantic and metric layer, including dbt-style modelling (or equivalent)
  • Strong understanding and experience running a certified-dataset programme (trusted datasets tied to decision use-cases with named owners)
  • Strong Power BI expertise, including:
    • modelling and performance
    • governance approaches and BI standards
    • defining and enforcing BI standards across teams
  • Strong SQL skills, with comfort using Python for analytics tasks
  • Proven experience delivering data literacy programmes and/or building a community of practice
  • Stakeholder management skills, including translating business priorities into data products and pragmatically declining requests that should not sit centrally
  • Coaching and advisory capability to improve adoption and confidence over time

Nice to Have Skills:

  • Exposure to Azure Databricks SQL and lakehouse analytics patterns
  • Experience with AI-enabled insight generation and/or AI design review

This is a fantastic opportunity to lead the data analytics function, working with a highly collaborative and supportive team.
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