Senior Data Analyst

Details

Reference number

460643

Salary

£53,143 A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97% GBP

Job grade

Other### Contract type

Permanent### Type of role

Other### Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time### Number of jobs available

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Brighton, South East England, BN1 6AFAbout the job

Job summary

This role offers the chance to play a key part in shaping the future of pensions by turning complex evidence into clear insights that guide TPR’s regulatory strategy, policy development and day‑to‑day decisions. You’ll wrangle, analyse and interpret data, helping colleagues understand emerging risks, policy impacts and where to focus attention to protect savers. Working closely with teams across TPR, you’ll produce a range of analytical outputs tailored to different audiences, ensuring evidence is accessible, meaningful and easy to act on. You’ll bring expert skills in tools such as R, Python, and PowerBI while staying up to date with new analytical approaches across the regulatory and financial sectors. Collaboration, learning and continuous improvement are central to the role, with opportunities to deepen your technical expertise and contribute to shared understanding across the organisation. Through this work, you’ll help ensure TPR’s decisions are grounded in robust analysis and focused on delivering better outcomes for millions of pension savers.

In addition, you will own and lead the production of a TPR official statistics publication, ensuring it meets the highest standards of quality and transparency. You will proactively identify areas where further analysis is needed, including evidence gaps, and share results, recommendations and proposed mitigations across TPR. You will also be responsible for the technical review and assurance of statistical and modelling work carried out by other analysts, ensuring accuracy, rigour and consistency.

Job description

• Thrives on turning complex information into clear, meaningful insights that help others make confident, evidence-based decisions.
• Enjoys working collaboratively, building strong relationships and influencing through evidence.
• Is naturally curious, proactive and motivated to spot opportunities for deeper analysis or improved understanding.
• Takes pride in producing high quality, accurate work and feels comfortable owning responsibility.
• Values continuous learning, staying up to date with new tools and techniques, and contributing to a culture of shared expertise.
• Can use independent judgement to determine appropriate levels of analytical rigour relative to the task at hand.
• Is able to work at pace whilst maintaining accuracy and attention to detail.

Person specification

• Expert proficiency in statistical and analytical software, including either R or Python – Skills in PowerBI, tableau and SQL are also advantageous.
• Expert/practitioner knowledge of statistical modelling, time series analysis, and forecasting.
• Expert experience of evaluating data sources for suitability, reliability \& accuracy; and extracting data from complex data warehouses.
• Practitioner level communication of complex analytics in a clear and accurate manner; translating this into business needs and explaining its relevance.
• Strong knowledge and prior application of the UK Code for Official Statistics, and implementation of robust standards and quality assurance procedures in analytics.
• Practitioner level knowledge of Git, AzureDevOps, and AGILE or Dev/DataOps workflow methodologies. Benefits

Alongside your salary of £53,143, Pensions Regulator contributes £15,395 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.TPR offers:

• Genuine opportunities for learning and development.
• A values-led, inclusive environment.
• Hybrid working and flexible shift patterns.
• A vibrant workplace with employee networks (Disability, Family, LGBT+, Minority Ethnic, Mental Health, Women’s).

We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.### Selection process details

To avoid disappointment, we would invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can continue to provide a positive candidate experience, with each application being reviewed and considered. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Current TPR employees who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.

We welcome applications on a part time and job share basis.

Selection and interview

If you are shortlisted for interview, we’ll be in contact with you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application however due to the large volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.

As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria will be an offered an interview. Please note that if we receive a high volume of Disability Confident applicants, we reserve the right to offer an interview to those who best meet the essential criteria.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.### Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.### Nationality requirements

Open to UK nationals only.### Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.### Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .Apply and further information

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