Digital Futures
Principal Data Analyst
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Digital Futures is seeking a Principal Data Analyst
Digital Futures is seeking a Principal Data Analyst to lead analytical work that enables evidence-based decision-making for clients, focusing on clear insight, reporting, and decision support. The role bridges business questions and data, ensuring stakeholders have trusted, actionable information.
Key responsibilities
- Lead the design and delivery of analytical projects, dashboards, and reports that address key business questions.
- Work with stakeholders to understand decisions, define metrics, and translate needs into analytical requirements.
- Explore and interpret data to generate insights, identify trends, and highlight risks or opportunities.
- Establish and promote standards for reporting, data visualization, metric definitions, and self-service analytics.
- Mentor analysts across teams, reviewing work and providing guidance on analytical techniques and storytelling.
- Partner with data engineering and data architecture teams to ensure data foundations support analytical needs.
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Skills & experience
- Significant experience in data analysis, BI, or analytics roles, ideally within consulting or complex organizations.
- Strong SQL skills and experience with BI/visualization tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker, or similar).
- Solid understanding of analytical techniques, descriptive statistics, and how to apply them in business contexts.
- Experience defining and managing metrics, KPIs, and performance reporting.
- Ability to structure ambiguous problems, prioritize questions, and design clear analytical approaches.
- Excellent communication skills, both in written outputs and verbal presentations.
Behaviours & mindset
- Acts as an insight partner, focused on influencing decisions rather than just producing reports.
- Curious about the business context and motivated to understand "why," not just "what" the data shows.
- Clear and concise communicator, tailoring messages to different audiences.
- Advocates for data quality and clarity, challenging unclear or inconsistent metrics.
- Collaborative and proactive in identifying where analytics can add value.
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What's in it for you?
- Tailored professional development plan and upskilling
- Ability to make an impact at Digital Futures while it is in a period of accelerated growth
- Access to our employee benefits, discounts, and perks platform
- Pension contributions
- Wellbeing budget
- Competitive salary
- Hybrid working model with required office working days
Digital Futures is a mission-led technology services company specializing in Artificial Intelligence (AI).
We have reimagined how capability is built in the age of AI, disrupting outdated workforce and education models, placing ambition at our core.
We're building the workforce of the future, leveraging the power of AI to drive innovation and inclusive growth.
We are creating a company that matters: one where pride is a strategic asset and our collective impact is measured in enduring outcomes – opportunity created, futures transformed, advantage secured.
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