Data & Insights Lead driving Unity Advisory's data strategy and insights capability. Shaping scalable data foundations and empowering decision-making across a fast-scaling AI-driven advisory business.
Responsibilities
Own and deliver Unity Advisory’s data and insights vision, designing and optimising a modern, scalable data architecture and stack.
Lead the development of robust data models, semantic layers, and transformation workflows using DBT, SQL, and Python.
Define and implement data governance, quality, and compliance frameworks, ensuring alignment with GDPR, cookies, and relevant industry regulations.
Build and embed a strong self-service analytics culture using BI tools such as Looker, Tableau, and PowerBI, enabling teams to make data-driven decisions.
Lead the optimisation of data tracking and collection frameworks, with a focus on high-quality first-party data strategies (e.g. Snowplow).
Deliver measurable efficiency gains through automation, improved processes, and thoughtful technology choices.
Partner with senior stakeholders to ensure data solutions directly support commercial and strategic priorities.
Establish best practices across data engineering, observability, documentation, testing, and knowledge sharing.
Support experimentation with advanced analytics and AI/ML use cases where appropriate.
This role will initially operate in a hands‑on capacity, with the opportunity to shape and build a data team as the function scales.
Requirements
7+ years’ experience leading data, analytics, and BI functions in complex organisations or consulting environments.
Strong commercial mindset with the ability to translate data into actionable business insight.
Deep expertise across BI & Analytics: Looker, Tableau, PowerBI, hex.tech, Streamlit.
Data Modelling & Transformation: DBT, SQL, Python.
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