About the role
The Performance and Intelligence Team provides high quality data and intelligence from a diverse range of data sets to execute effective data analysis to inform, influence and shape policy making, strategy development and budget planning for the Council.
Our development plans include providing more proactive business intelligence, by being able to report on demand patterns, service utilisation trends and customer profiling, to identify ways of supporting our residents better and more efficiently. We are also exploring the implementation of modern self-service visualisation and analytics across the Council’s services.
We need people to join us who can help. We are looking to appoint across multiple roles at varying levels, including technical data engineering and reporting (this role) and analyst roles.
What will you be doing?
This post leads a team to design, write and deploy data engineering / reports to extract data from line of business and case management systems to support the wider delivery of performance and intelligence information to services. This could be across many of the different services we deliver in a modern unitary council - from adult social care, to special educational needs and disabilities, to housing provision and many others too.
The post holder will lead a team of 2 Report Developers to support delivery of reporting across the business.
The role works closely with performance analysts, business analysts, IT and the service, and will lead efforts to develop new data flow and pipelines to transform our data provision to make use of more automated and modern platforms.
About you
In all our roles, we are looking for colleagues who see the world through a data lens, are proactive, self-managing, curious and have a self-reliant approach to problem solving. Good communication and strong client facing skills are also a prerequisite.
In this role specifically, strong technical skills in common database standards and software such as SQL, Business Objects, Oracle, Crystal are essential. Skills developing data pipelines, integrating data from multiple sources, and self-service platforms with other tools such as SSRS, Power BI or Tableau and deploying to users, are also important.
This role also manages two people and leads a team with many different clients in a fast-paced environment, so line and team management skills, and good judgement and advice are also important. Experience of local government or public sector in general would be beneficial.
If you are interested in any of the roles but would like an informal conversation before applying then please contact Tom Barden, tom.barden@northnorthants.gov.uk
Our benefits
We offer:
- a competitive salary
- a pension scheme, where we pay a significant contribution on top of your contribution. It provides life cover and ill-health protection.
- opportunities to develop your skills, knowledge and potential in a large unitary council
- generous leave entitlement (28 days, rising to 33 days) and bank holidays, plus the option to buy up to an extra 10 days
- agile and flexible working arrangements to help you with a healthy work-life balance.
About us
We are a new unitary council, established in April 2021; we are one of the largest unitary councils in the country. Our vision for North Northants is to be 'A place where everyone has the best opportunities and quality of life'.
Our priorities are:
- helping people live active fulfilled lives
- caring for our young people, providing them with high quality education and opportunities
- enabling a thriving and successful economy
- leading on a green and sustainable environment
- ensuring our communities are connected so they can shape their lives and where they live
- providing modern public services
Our values, as chosen by our staff, are - Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive and Trustworthy.
Your differences make us different - Achieve Together.
We are undertaking consultation with the Trade Unions on terms and conditions and the future NNC pay structure and during this time are appointing new employees on interim spot salaries. You will be advised of the outcome and any impact on your role once this work is complete.
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