Data Specialist - SC Cleared

Salary: £81,000 - 81,000 per year

Requirements

• Active SC clearance (mandatory)
• Strong hands-on experience with cloud-based data and analytics platforms
• Background in data engineering, analytics platforms, or data science enablement
• Proven experience contributing directly to build and implementation
• Experience taking initiatives from POC to MVP or production
• Understanding of security, governance, reuse, and scalability considerations
• Ability to simplify complexity and communicate technical trade-offs clearly
• Experience working in secure or regulated environments (desirable)
• Exposure to analytics or data platforms involving identity, access management, or security-related datasets (desirable)
• Experience enabling multiple teams or user groups on a shared platform (desirable)
• Track record of demonstrating business value early (desirable)

Responsibilities

• Act as a hands-on platform specialist across a secure, cloud-based data and analytics platform
• Contribute directly to build, configuration, and implementation activity alongside developers and data engineers
• Support definition of the POC scope, success criteria, and value proposition
• Shape the technical path from POC to MVP, considering scalability, security, governance, and reuse
• Contribute to analytics and insight generation over identity, access, and entitlement-related datasets
• Provide pragmatic technical input across data ingestion, analytics, visualisation, access control, and environments
• Work closely with delivery leadership to surface risks and maintain delivery momentum
• Ensure decisions, progress, and artefacts are shared and transparent
• Explain technical concepts clearly to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Enable teams to deliver independently over time

Technologies

• Cloud
• Support
• Security
• AWS
• Power BI
• Python
• SQL
• Tableau

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We are seeking a Platform Specialist in Data & Analytics for an initial 6-month contract with the potential to convert to a permanent position. This role is hybrid, requiring you to be on-site 2 days a week, with the remainder of the time working remotely. Our platform supports a secure, cloud-hosted analytics workbench tailored for modern analytics and data science workflows. If you are someone who thrives in a complex stakeholder environment and can deliver impactful solutions, we want to hear from you.

last updated 17 week of 2026