Summary
Manages analytics engineering activities, establishing frameworks and methodologies aligned with business objectives and data governance policies. Leads the implementation of analytics engineering solutions. Translates business needs into analytics requirements and identifies data-driven solutions. Guides the selection and application of advanced analytics engineering techniques. Communicates insights and recommendations to senior stakeholders, influencing strategic decisions.
Work Activity Components
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Business needs (Level 5) (DAAN) | Translates business needs into analytics requirements and identifies data-driven solutions. |
| Process and validate (Level 5) (DAAN) | Manages data analytics activities, establishing frameworks and methodologies aligned with business objectives and data governance policies. |
| Processes, tools and methods (Level 5) (DAAN) | Guides the selection and application of advanced analytical techniques. |
| Solutions (Level 5) (DAAN) | Leads the implementation of data analytics solutions. |
Technical Skills
| Title | Details | Depth |
|---|---|---|
| Big Data | The discipline associated with data sets so large and/or complex that traditional data processing applications are inadequate. The data files may include structured, unstructured and/or semi-structured data, such as unstructured text, audio, video, etc. Challenges include analysis, capture, curation, search, sharing, storage, transfer, manipulation, analysis, visualization and information privacy. | Proficient in |
| Business Environment | The business environment relating to own sphere of work (own organisation and/or closely associated organisations, such as customers, suppliers, partners and competitors), in particular those aspects of the business that the specialism is to support (i.e. localised organisational awareness from a technical perspective). | Proficient in |
Other Skills
| Title | Details | Depth |
|---|---|---|
| Standards Writing Techniques | Principles, methods and techniques for establishing, documenting, and maintaining standards. | Familiar with |
Training
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| AI and Machine Learning | AI and machine learning methods, tools and techniques that enable computers to model behaviours based on empirical data in order to solve business problems and/or provide greater business insight. |
| Coaching | Concepts, methods and techniques for providing coaching in subject specialisms to individuals or groups (e.g. GROW model). |
| Security Awareness | Tools and techniques to help users and employees understand the role they play in helping to combat information security breaches and for IT and security professionals to prevent and mitigate risk. |
Professional Development Activity (PDA)
| Title | Details | PDA Group |
|---|---|---|
| Deputising | Standing in for supervisor or manager on a temporary basis during periods of absence. | Broadening Activities |
| Gaining Knowledge of Activities of Employing Organisation | Developing an understanding of the potentially diverse range of activities (service, governance, administrative, regulatory, commercial, charitable, industrial, etc.) undertaken by the employing organisation. | Increasing Knowledge |
| Gaining Knowledge of Broader IT Issues | Increasing and maintaining currency of knowledge of broader IT issues through reading, attending and participating in seminars or conferences, special studies, temporary assignments etc. | Increasing Knowledge |
| Job Shadowing and Special Assignments | Undertaking temporary periods or secondments in other roles, particularly those that offer a new perspective on own function or exposure to other environments and cultures. | Broadening Activities |
| Negotiating and Influencing | Undertaking learning and practice of negotiating with and influencing others. | Developing Professional Skills |
| Participation in Professional Body Affairs | Taking an active part in professional body affairs at branch, specialist group, committee or board level. | Participation in Professional Activities |
| Research Assignments | Exploring a topic which is not part of own normal responsibilities and presenting findings to colleagues and/or management | Increasing Knowledge |
| Team Leadership | Undertaking learning and practice of the skills required to lead teams, including motivation, direction, coaching, delegation, appraisal, counselling and developing others. | Developing Professional Skills |
Qualification Components
| Title | Awarding Bodies |
|---|---|
| BCS Foundation Certificate in the Ethical Build of AI | BCS The Chartered Institute for IT |
| FEDIP Advanced Practitioner | The Federation for Informatics Professionals |
Additional Frameworks
National Competency Framework for Data Professionals in Health and Care
Behaviours
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Delivering outcomes (B1.1) (Level Four) | You are able to gather the skills of a diverse multi-disciplinary team in order to achieve an agreed outcome. |
| Communicating within a hierarchy (B1.2) (Level Four) | You are able to challenge the use of hierarchical arguments where logic supports a different course of action and call out the use of emotional or coercive influence. |
| Generating consensus (B1.3) (Level Four) | You are consistently able to gather a consensus of opinion to support your arguments and often know what people will support prior to discussion. |
| Logical arguments (B1.4) (Level Four) | You are able to construct a clearly predicated argument with logically consistent conclusions whilst providing robust refutations of counterarguments. |
| Negotiation (B1.5) (Level Four) | You are able to negotiate exchanges over multiple poles of interest in order to achieve a specific result even when those involved have hidden agendas, while allowing everyone to share multiple viewpoints. |
| Generating support (B1.6) (Level Four) | Your team and colleagues will often go above and beyond to support your initiatives. |
| Influence (B1.7) (Level Four) | Your opinion is often sought early by peers dealing with politically sensitive issues. |
| Equality (B2.1) (Level Four) | You make extra efforts to ensure that, where the voices of certain groups are not being heard, you take the time to give them a voice. |
| Challenging discrimination (B2.2) (Level Four) | You are able to engage with sensitive ED&I issues and deal with them with the utmost dignity, respect and fairness. |
| NHS Constitution (B2.3) (Level Four) | You promote the behaviours and values listed in the NHS Constitution. |
| Supporting others (B2.4) (Level Four) | You view the wellbeing of you and those around you with high priority. You take every step to ensure that people within your domain know that it's okay not to be okay. |
| Open environment (B2.5) (Level Four) | You are an ally for underrepresented and marginalised groups and model an open environment by facilitating sessions for these individuals to share their lived experiences with you and your colleagues. |
| Challenging disrespect (B2.6) (Level Four) | You support staff to understand the impact of disrespectful behaviour and support them in challenging it. |
| Written communication (B3.1) (Level Four) | You are able to produce original written material that is accessible, referenced and publishable, including the production of literature reviews. |
| Discussing complex ideas (B3.2) (Level Four) | You are able to engage in complex technical debates with other specialists whilst using accessible and accurate language. |
| Delivering complex ideas (B3.3) (Level Four) | Your confidence in your expertise enables others to feel confident and at ease with your contribution. |
| Understanding new ideas (B3.4) (Level Four) | You are able to design all insight into complex information in a way that is both accurate and concise. |
| Reading audiences (B3.5) (Level Four) | You are able to read large audiences to assess how well they have understood a series of multi-disciplinary concepts. |
| Reading audiences (B3.5) (Level Four) | You are able to read large audiences to assess how well they have understood a series of multi-disciplinary concepts. |
| Seeking opinions (B4.2) (Level Four) | You regularly create multi-disciplinary teams to address complex problems. |
| Sharing best practice (B4.3) (Level Four) | You create an environment where the sharing of best practice is viewed as a central part of every review process. |
| Embedding best practice (B4.4) (Level Four) | You ensure that all processes within your area are based on models of "what good looks like". |
| Patient impact (B5.1) (Level Four) | You ensure work within your area is as efficient as possible and enables better health and care outcomes. |
| Understanding the customer (B5.2) (Level Four) | You seek out opportunities to work collaboratively with customers to pre-empt requests. |
| Customer service (B5.3) (Level Four) | You understand changes within health and care with a view offering solutions to foreseen requirements. |
| Customer solutions (B5.4) (Level Four) | You apply new solutions to customer requirements in order to ensure maximum accuracy and efficiency. |
Leadership
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Empathy and understanding (Level Four) | You act with care, empathy and understanding and ensure that your team knows you are always available to them. |
| EDI (Level Four) | You actively engage in your organisation's EDI networks to better understand and appreciate the lived experiences of people different to you and how you can create a working environment supportive to all. |
| Compassion (Level Four) | You ensure that, whilst being a workplace, emotional issues are dealt with care and sensitivity. |
| Team support (Level Four) | Your team feels supported and empowered to exceed their goals. |
| Positivity (Level Four) | You set clear goals and expectations that are visible to your team and others in affiliated areas. |
| Innovation (Level Four) | You build the importance of trying new things and failing in a controlled environment into your ways of working whilst always celebrating success. |
| Safe to fail (Level Four) | You facilitate networking opportunities for your team, including those with external organisations. |
| Fairness (Level Four) | You are regarded as fair by your team who consistently give you the best of their abilities. |
| Opportunities (Level Four) | You identify opportunities for your team to learn from failure including fast fails and sandbox environments. |
| Goals (Level Four) | You set challenging goals whilst empowering the team to explore a number of different solutions whilst keeping yourself available to support them. |
| Performance (Level Four) | You regard sub standard work as a reflection of your ability as you had the opportunity to prevent it. |
| Motivation (Level Four) | You use your knowledge of the motivations of your team to plan succession and support them in their ambitions beyond your team. |
| Expectations (Level Four) | You are able to express the ramifications of below standard work in an honest and unemotional way. |
| Developing talent (Level Four) | You take pride in the talent of your team and go to great lengths to develop their skills and innovations. |
| Succession planning (Level Three) | You are able to readily identify those in your team who have the opportunity to excel at their level and beyond and use this knowledge to begin succession planning. |
| Managing expenditure (Level Four) | You are able to agree and control expenditure required for the effective running of your team. |
| Budget control (Level Four) | You agree and control budget allocations, highlighting anomalies in expenditure and make suggestions for the reallocations of funding. |
| Forecasting (Level Four) | You are able to produce accurate forecasts based on current expenditure and foreseen developments within your division. |
| Business cases (Level Four) | You deliver accurate and insightful business cases with appropriate and balanced options appraisals. |
| Recruitment (Level Four) | You support your team to recruit effectively whilst ensuring that fairness towards equality and diversity remains a priority throughout the process. |
| Supporting ambition (Level Four) | You take the time to talk to all staff members within your remit and encourage your managers to support their ambitions, providing solutions where these diverge from perceived organisational drivers. |
| Training opportunities (Level Four) | You ensure that your managers enable training on a regular basis within their unit and have ample access to training for their own development. You ensure that everyone understands delegation is a development opportunity that requires time and should not be seen as a shortcut to alleviating workloads. |
| Professional development (Level Four) | You take an active interest in all staff members' PDPs within your area and ensure that development opportunities are seized upon. |
| Managing external pressures (Level Four) | You ensure that time is set aside for the team to focus on each aspect of their role, wherever possible, free from distraction and interruption, protecting them, where possible, from the pressures of other managers outside the department, ensuring their well-being is protected from external pressures. |
Data Skills
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Non-technical audiences (Analytics Engineering) (AEC1.1) (Level Four) | You listen to the needs of business stakeholders and effectively interpret those needs into technical action . |
| Stakeholder management (Analytics Engineering) (AEC1.2) (Level Four) | You effectively manage stakeholder expectations. |
| Positive communication (AEC1.3) (Level Four) | You manage active and reactive communication with positive effect. |
| Facilitation (Analytics Engineering) (AEC1.4) (Level Four) | You support or host difficult discussions within the team and with diverse senior stakeholders. |
| Data profiling (Analytics Engineering) (AEC2.2)(Level Four) | You can understand and help teams to apply a range of techniques for data profiling. |
| Data innovation (AEC2.3) (Level Four) | You can identify areas of innovation in data tools and techniques, and recognise appropriate timing for adoption. |
| Data requirements (AEC2.4) (Level Four) | You can source system analysis from a complex single source. |
| Data transformation (Level Four) | You can bring multiple data sources together in a conformed model for analysis. |
| Tools (AEC3.2) (Level Four) | You understand a number of data integration tools and patterns and ensure your teams have the support and training needed to use the most appropriate methods. |
| Tools (AEC3.2) (Level Four) | You understand a number of data integration tools and patterns and ensure your teams have the support and training needed to use the most appropriate methods. |
| Reverse engineering (Analytics Engineering) (AEC3.3) (Level Four) | You set the operational framework for reverse engineering activities . |
| Data engineering (AEC3.4) (Level Four) | You build and test scalable data pipelines from multiple data sources enabling monitoring and reporting for data governance and ensuring an efficient data analytics workload throughout the systems. |
| Data iteration, review and maintenance (Analytics Engineering) (AEC3.5) (Level Four) | You ensure data is modelled appropriately, and modelling standards exist and are complied with. |
| Problem identification (AEC4.1) (Level Four) | You delegate the identification and description of problems affecting data systems in your domain, signposting where necessary to the correct resources and people to achieve resolution and ensure strategic leads are kept informed. |
| Problem identification (AEC4.1) (Level Four) | You delegate the identification and description of problems affecting data systems in your domain, signposting where necessary to the correct resources and people to achieve resolution and ensure strategic leads are kept informed. |
| Problem resolution (AEC4.2) (Level Four) | You can ensure that the most appropriate actions are taken to resolve problems as they occur. |
| Problem prevention (AEC4.3) (Level Four) | You co-ordinate workstreams across teams in your domain to implement appropriate preventive measures such as testing frameworks and write policy to support a preventive approach. |
| Capacity building (AEC4.4) (Level Four) | You establish a framework ensuring problem solving capacity is embedded in the professional development of the team. |
| Repository tools and management (AEC5.1) (Level Four) | You set up robust governance processes to keep repositories up to date liaising across technical, analytical and governance teams to do so. |
| Metadata best practice (Analytics Engineering) (AEC5.2) (Level Four) | You set policy around metadata management liaising across technical, analytical and governance teams to do so. |
| Repository design (AEC5.3) (Level Four) | You can design an optimal metadata repository liaising across technical, analytical and governance teams to do so. |
| Programming (AEC6.1) (Level Four) | You set policy on standards and tools to design, code, test, correct and document moderate-to-complex programs and scripts from authorized specifications and subsequent iterations. You seek out and apply best practice across all development methods and ensure compliance. |
| Performance analysis (Analytics Engineering) (AEC6.2) (Level Three) | You can manage issues and risks associated with work liaising with other technical colleagues to solve issues. |
| Data architecture (AEC7.1) (Level Four) | You collaborate with data architects in their work to ensure all business areas are included. |
| Patterns (AEC7.2) (Level Four) | You implement policy on the appropriate patterns across the enterprise or system. |
| Strategic alignment (Analytics Engineering) (AEC7.3) (Level Four) | You work across multiple subject areas or a single large or complicated subject area setting policy relevant to good data practices. |
| Strategic alignment (Analytics Engineering) (AEC7.3) (Level Four) | You work across multiple subject areas or a single large or complicated subject area setting policy relevant to good data practices. |
| Data Visualisation (Level Three) | You can use underlying coding such as mCODE, DAX etc to create the most efficient datasets to visualise. You can tell a story using data. |
| Statistical Process Control (Level Three) | You understand the different types of SPC charts and when each should be used. You have knowledge of process redesign and its dependence on removing special cause variation. |
| Descriptive and Explicative Analytics (Level Three) | You produce indicators and metrics that clearly measure what is required. You understand and apply reliability and validity assessments. You select the most appropriate methods of visualisation. |
| Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics (Level Three) | You understand the difference between predictive and prescriptive analysis, and have knowledge of tools and techniques for prescriptive analysis including business modelling and algorithms. You are aware of the link to machine learning. |
| Evaluative Analytics (Level Three) | You understand the role of proxy measures for less straightforward outcomes. You can assess these measures and quantify their uncertainty. You can evaluate previous research to determine appropriate measures. |
| Advanced Statistics (Level Three) | You know all standard advanced statistical techniques and keep up to date with new developments e.g. time series modelling using ETS, ARMA, ARIMA, BATS, TBATS etc. You understand the context for these developments and their limitations. |
| Longitudinal Analysis (Level Three) | You understand pragmatic differentiation between independent measures and repeated measures design. You understand how changing populations can affect analysis and choice of techniques used. You understand data attrition. |
Project Skills
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Business cases (Level Four) | You instigate business case development and work with project management colleagues to define project requirements, scope and overall time, quality and cost constraints. |
| Scope (Level Four) | You define and engage stakeholders. |
| Reviews (Level Four) | You advise on the coherence of programmes in data and digital to maximise the effectiveness of time and available skills within the business. |
| Quality assurance - Data and digital (Level Four) | You lead quality assurance in data and digital, drawing on external expertise where necessary, learning lessons and sharing those with the wider data and digital community for their project work. |
| Advice and monitoring (Level Four) | You monitor and manage the capacity of data and digital teams to meet current project plans, escalating any issues with skills, timeframes and other resources impacting upon project plans with colleagues in project management. |
| Scheduling (Level Two) | You schedule project work appropriately for yourself and the team, ensuring business needs are met both within the project and in business as usual. |
| Refinement (Level Two) | You refine the plan within your work area to take account of any authorised changes communicating actions, progress and results with project managers. |
| Resource identification (Level Four) | You ensure resources for projects are in place and optimised across any programmes, communicating their business value to non-data and digital colleagues and stakeholders. |
| Skill acquisition and management (WP3.2)(Level Three) | You plan for the recruitment of staff with additional required skill sets, liaising with HR and/or other providers to source skilled staff to fulfil project roles, onboard and manage them and their workloads. |
| Additional tools and resources (Level Three) | You cost and acquire, deploy and contract for the support of additional tools and resources such as hardware, software, training and data sources for the course of the project life cycle. |
| Resource allocation (Level Two) | You plan the allocation of existing resources to project work whilst effectively maintaining business as usual wherever feasible. |
| Project management (Level Four) | You ensure the team's project delivery activities have sufficient resources to co-exist with business as usual. |
| Pilots and testing (Level Four) | You manage the risks and issues affecting data and digital roles in the project or programme. |
| Implementation (Level Four) | You engage with project managers and stakeholders to map out all necessary resources and activities for effective and sustained implementation |
| Business change (Level Four) | You promote how data and digital can champion business change and identify further technological opportunities to bring about business benefits. |
| Assurance (Level Four) | You provide assurance that the business benefits identified for a project can be realised, refining options for delivery and managing change control processes. |
| Evaluation (WP5.3) (Level Three) | You ensure appropriate solutions are evaluated and viable alternatives are considered to deliver the intended business benefits. |
The Professional Body Responsible for this job family is AphA. This job role profile was created in collaboration with BCS, using Role Model Plus.