Engineering Data Analyst
Job Description
Job title: Engineering Data Analyst
Company: Thales
Job description: Location: Templecombe, United Kingdom
Thales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.
Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Engineering Data Analyst
Location: Templecombe / Cheadle
Are you a big picture thinker? Would you like to work autonomously on solving data analysis problems within the UWS domain engineering team? Would you like to expand your network and get a better understanding of engineering operations? Got your interest, then this role is for you!
What the role has to offer:
- Opportunity to learn and develop skills within data analysis
- Involvement in driving informed decision making within the UWS engineering team
- Good networking and interaction within the business area and wider operations teams
About the Team
Thales Underwater Systems (UWS) design, develop, integrate and support Sonar Systems for anti-submarine warfare and mine hunting, have a fantastic opportunity for an Engineering Data Analyst to join a small yet diverse team.
You will sit in the UWS Engineering Operations Team who support the wider engineering organisation with services across a number of topics. This role will specifically support data analysis, decision-making and identification of corrective actions. This will be done in alignment with the UK data organisation, to ensure we maximise value from the work done.
Our Opportunity
You will be required to collect, organise and study data to provide business insight. Specifically working with the engineering operations team, the analyst will look to identify data opportunities within the UWS (engineering) operations and deliver data products to drive better value from identified data.
Key Responsibilities and Tasks:
- Identify, collect and migrate data to and from a range of systems
- Manage, clean, abstract and aggregate data alongside a range of analytical studies on that data
- Manipulate and link different data sets
- Apply tools and techniques for data analysis and data visualisation (including the use of business information tools)
- Summarise and present data and conclusions in the most appropriate format for users
About You
- You can identify appropriate ways to collect, collate and prepare data. You can decide if data is accurate and fit for purpose
- You will have the ability to build good relationships with key stakeholders, team members and the wider business
Nice to haves…
- You can show an interest / awareness of the need for careful analysis of research data to produce clear findings
- You can show an interest / awareness of organisational data governance, and how it works in relation to other organisational governance structures
- You have interest / awareness on producing data models and have an understanding on where to use different types of data models
- Able to build excellent relationships with key internal and external stakeholders based on trust and confidence
What We Can Offer
We’re committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you’ll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.
Flexibility
Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.
In line with Thales’ Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.
At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.
Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact for mid to senior roles, or the for graduate and apprentice roles.
