
Principal Technologist – Data Analytics
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full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United Kingdom
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Salary
💰 £60,000 - £65,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Acting as a primary internal authority for Data Science and Analytics, ensuring technical accuracy, relevance, and industry alignment across all programmes.
- Acting as the end-to-end owner of learning products, designing systemic educational solutions - such as internal AI tools or automated grading processes, to solve delivery challenges at scale.
- Designing, developing, and continuously improving high-quality, production-ready learning content
- Delivering engaging, high-impact workshops to adult learners in virtual classrooms
- Providing pedagogical coaching and line management to the Analytics team.
- Leading the pedagogical scoping and educational narrative for commercial bids, working alongside sales and operational teams to ensure technical deliverables are feasible.
- Managing the end-to-end delivery cycle of complex learning projects, ensuring all technical and pedagogical milestones are met.
Requirements
- Experienced in designing and delivering technical learner-centric training programmes
- A data science / analytics subject matter expert with strong practical experience
- Confident coding in Python and familiar with AI copilots for code generation and AutoML python libraries
- Deep technical knowledge of the data analytics lifecycle, including advanced Python, SQL, and practical use of Large Language Models in Data Analytics
- Understanding how to teach the transition from basic code to production-grade analytics.
- Able to own complex workstreams independently, from definition through to delivery
- A strong communicator who can simplify complex ideas without losing accuracy
- Highly organised, detail-oriented, and reliable in execution
- Comfortable working across multiple stakeholders and priorities
- Always keen to learn, improve and stretch your own knowledge, skills and behaviours.
- Exposure to data engineering or software development practices (desirable)
- Experience developing apprenticeship programmes (desirable)
- Experience in line management or mentoring (desirable)
- Experience with Excel, PowerBI, and Power Automate (desirable)
- Familiar with semantic data modelling (desirable)
- Experience with cloud-based platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) and familiarity with heavier technical engineering items such as Infrastructure as Code via Terraform or Large-scale Data tools like Spark (desirable)
Benefits
- 33 days* leave per year (inclusive of bank holidays) and extra tenured holiday enabling team members to gain an additional day for every year you are with us (after the first 2 years) up to a maximum of 8.
- Flexible working, including work-from-home
- Modern, flexible and fully serviced offices at WeWork in Spitalfields, London
- Company pension/retirement contributions
- Health care including dental, medical, and vision* and to help you prioritise your wellbeing
- Travel insurance
- An array of social events and all company gatherings
- Continuous learning and development.
- A work environment that values creativity, personal growth and collaboration
- Free monthly lunches
- Laptop and virtual work equipment kit provided
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
PythonSQLAutoMLLarge Language Modelsdata analytics lifecycledata engineeringsoftware developmentsemantic data modellingInfrastructure as CodeSpark
Soft Skills
strong communicatorhighly organiseddetail-orientedreliable executionindependent workstream ownershippedagogical coachingmentoringcontinuous learningsimplifying complex ideasworking across multiple stakeholders