Data Analyst

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Organisation: London Borough of Waltham Forest

Salary: PO3/PO4 £45,750  - £52,194 

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

Working hours per week: 36 hours per week

Application Deadline: 31/10/2025

Reference: 1792

About Us: 

Bursting with culture, energy, and opportunity, the London Borough of Waltham Forest is a fantastic and exciting place to work. 

We are a highly ambitious borough. Driven by culture and the innate creativity of our residents, we have developed new and innovative ways to build our communities. Our Council is relentlessly resident-focused, insight-led, digitally driven and commercially minded; a Council focused on meeting the needs of our existing and future residents. 

London Borough of Waltham Forest is one of the Mayor of London’s Good Work Standard employers. This accreditation is a proof of our commitment to creating a healthy, fair and inclusive workplace. This includes fair pay and conditions, workplace well-being, skills and progression and diversity and recruitment. 

The Council’s preference is for online application. However, if you have a disability and are unable to complete an online application, please email recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk so we can arrange an alternative application method. 

About the role: 

Over the last 2 years the housing department’s digital transformation programme has brought a number of exciting new developments to the service and residents. These improvements will continue at pace over the next few years with data being integral to the department becoming for effective. We are seeking a technically skilled Data Analyst to be part of a very busy Systems Team. In this role, you will be required to lead and contribute towards the extraction, analysis and reporting of data mainly from council’s Housing Systems. The role also requires you to contribute towards system configuration and normal, day to day, business as usual (BAU) tasks. You will be one of the key persons in developing and maintaining a new reporting system.

In this role, your existing technical skills are of the utmost importance. You will be given ample opportunity and support to learn the processes in the Housing Service area. Therefore, this is a role for somebody who is highly IT literate and is comfortable writing SQL on an Oracle Database.

We are a diverse and a welcoming group and we are seeking someone who is passionate about IT Systems and can help us move our team in an exciting new direction.

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Key Responsibilities: 

• Take a lead on design and development of new SQL reports using data tools such as Business Object, TOAD and or SQL Developer.
• Lead on design (including specification), development and implementation for the development of a new reporting system project.
• Analyse and verify data from numerous systems, ensuring that the service areas are confident in using the reports to make effective decision.
• Provide BAU support in managing housing management systems ensuring that issues identified and reported by users are adequately dealt with in a timely manner.
• Contribute to the development of new systems, new modules and critical business as usual processes.

Qualifications and Requirements: 

• Have knowledge and experience in reporting from housing management system databases using SQL and other programming languages.
• Knowledge of using different housing management systems such as NEC Housing, NEC Document Management System, MRI Jigsaw.
• Experience in application support – first or second-line support.
• Have knowledge of project management methodologies such as Agile or Prince2.

Terms and conditions: 

 The below terms and conditions apply to this role: 

Interested candidates are invited to submit their applications online by pressing the ‘Apply’ button below. This includes a supporting statement that outlines to us how your skills and experience make you a good candidate for this vacancy. 

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.  

Equal Opportunity Employer: 

Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value. 

To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy. 

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below or feel free to discuss this during your interview. 

For more information on the benefits of working for the Council, please visit https://www.walthamforest.gov.uk/jobs-and-training/find-jobs-and-other-opportunities/working-us. 

Contact Information: 

If you have any questions about this vacancy or the application process, please contact Moynul Hoque at Moynul.Hoque@walthamforest.gov.uk 

If you have any technical issues when trying to apply for this post, please contact our Recruitment Team via email at recruitment@walthamforest.gov.uk. 

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