Advanced Specialist, Data Analytics & Business Intelligence

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Pearson is hiring an Advanced Specialist, Data Analytics & Business Intelligence. This role involves designing and building data assets, pipelines, and consumer-grade dashboards focused on engagement and adoption analytics, ensuring secure, role-based access and delivering trusted insights through interactive visual analytics solutions. The specialist will collaborate cross-functionally to ensure analytics outputs align with platform and security standards while driving adoption through clear, scalable visual insights.

Highlights

Design, build, and maintain analytics data flows and pipelines.
Create secure, segregated datasets supporting role-based access.
Shape data into curated, consumer-ready models powering dashboards and reporting.
Implement data quality checks and controls to ensure reliability.
Define and maintain standard logic for engagement and adoption metrics with consistent interpretation.
Design and deliver high-quality, user-centric dashboards with secure, login-based access.
Collaborate with Technology and Product teams to ensure scalable and fit-for-purpose analytics outputs.
Strong proficiency in SQL and experience with cloud data platforms, preferably GCP/BigQuery.
Dashboarding experience with Power BI and/or Tableau or comparable tools.
Degree in numerate or analytical discipline, or equivalent experience.

Advanced Specialist, Data Analytics & Business Intelligence Full Description

Context

We are building a secure and scalable analytics capability that enables trusted insights to be exposed consistently across the organisation and into externally consumed experiences. We are looking for a Data Products & Visual Analytics expert .

This role sits within the data team and is responsible for building the data assets, pipelines, and visual analytics that underpin highâquality, roleâbased insight consumption. The focus is on engagement and adoption analytics , delivered through consumerâgrade dashboards backed by governed, wellâstructured data.

What You'll Be Responsible For:

1) Data Assets & Secure Analytics Foundations

Design, build, and maintain analytics data flows and pipelines within the data team.
Create segregated, secure datasets that support roleâbased access and downstream consumption.
Shape data into curated, consumerâready models that power dashboards and reporting.
Implement data quality checks and controls so outputs are reliable and trusted.

2) Metrics & Semantic Consistency

Define and maintain standard logic for engagement and adoption metrics.
Ensure consistent interpretation of metrics across dashboards, views, and audiences.
Enable multiâdimensional analysis .

3) Visual Analytics & Dashboard Delivery

Design and deliver highâquality, visually strong dashboards with a clear UX.
Build interactive, intuitive analytics experiences suitable for secure, loginâbased access .
Apply strong judgement around layout, hierarchy, performance, and usability - treating dashboards as products, not static reports.

4) CrossâFunctional Delivery

Work with Technology and Product counterparts to ensure analytics outputs are fit for scalable consumption , aligned to platform and security expectations.
Support stakeholders by surfacing insights through dashboards that enable engagement, review, and informed action.
Own delivery from data to visualisation, balancing quality, speed, and governance.

Skills & Experience

Data & Engineering

Strong SQL and experience building analytics datasets/pipelines endâtoâend .
Comfortable working with cloud data platforms and large, governed datasets ( GCP / BigQuery preferred or equivalent).
Experience implementing data segregation, access controls, and quality checks.

Visualisation & Analytics Products

Strong dashboarding capability with a consumerâgrade mindset.
Proven ability to turn complex data into simple, intuitive, interactive visuals.
Experience building dashboards intended for reuse and scale, not oneâoff analysis.

Delivery & Collaboration

Confident operating across data, technology, and product contexts.
Strong prioritisation, ownership, and communication skills.

Core Capabilities for Scaled & Secure Analytics

Experience delivering roleâbased / loginâsecured analytics (embedded or portalâstyle), including segmentation and entitlementâaware views.
Familiarity with engagement/telemetry datasets and defining adoption metrics.
Experience integrating data from multiple enterprise sources into analyticsâready datasets.
Dashboarding experience with Power BI and/or Tableau (or comparable platforms).

Qualifications

Degree in a numerate or analytical discipline, or equivalent experience.

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