Senior Analytics Model Developer - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract in Hampshire, Portsmouth

The Senior Analytics Model Developer is responsible for designing, developing & testing analytics models, which will be provided to our user community through different levels of Analytics & BI (ABI) curation depending on the needs of the audience, thus translating our core data products into measurable business value. Our strategic analytics models will provide the backbone of our data as a service offering, enabling business users and insight teams to solve problems, answer questions and make decisions, via ABI tools such as Cognos Analytics & Power BI.

The person in post will work with the Head of ABI and relevant technical communities to help define, design, plan and implement our strategic approach to delivering analytics models into our data ecosystem, that can be consumed through more advanced, AI-based self-service toolsets in the future. The Senior Analytics Model Developer will work with analytics partners and stakeholders to define model requirements, including business logic & metrics and work with the information architects & analytics partners to ensure our data products follow a 'build once, use many' principle, facilitating remediation activities where required and will mentor other members of the team on approach and toolset, where needed.

The role holder will document our analytics models and ensure they follow the necessary data engineering standards, architectural principles and have appropriate governance. They will work closely with our data engineering and production support teams to ensure our analytics models are ready for handover, providing the necessary sign-offs and documentation to ensure the data engineering/production support teams can carry out all the necessary steps to achieve a production implementation.

We operate on a team led hybrid approach with at least 1 day a quarter in the Coventry or Manchester office and as business needs require.

Our benefits include:

• 28 days holiday a year plus bank holidays and a holiday buy/sell scheme
• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• Personal pension with matched contributions
• Life assurance (6 times annual salary)

Find out more about the fantastic benefits of joining Coventry Building Society here.

About you: You’ll combine analytical rigour and attention to detail with critical thinking, problem-solving, and intellectual curiosity, enabling you to translate complex business requirements into robust, strategic data models that empower decision-making and self-service analytics. A strong collaborator, you’ll work effectively with a variety of stakeholders, communicating clearly and listening actively. You’ll bring an ownership mindset, be comfortable challenging and being challenged, and demonstrate strong business acumen, adaptability, integrity, and organisational skills.

For this role you’ll need to have:

• Significant experience in data modelling and more specifically, star-schema design
• Extensive hands-on experience delivering analytics and business intelligence data models
• Strong grounding in data warehousing principles
• Expertise in data and metadata management
• Thorough understanding of security standards and controls
• Experience working with cloud data warehouse technologies, ideally Amazon Redshift
• Advanced SQL skills

Experience in these areas would be helpful:

• Experience of Jira Version Control (GitHub)
• Experience with ABI tools (preferably Power BI and/or Cognos Analytics)

About us: In 2025, Coventry Building Society purchased The Co-operative Bank. Bringing together our purpose-led building society with the UK's original ethical bank was the start of an exciting journey. Trusted by over four million people, we’re a mutually owned business free from shareholders, and with our combined experience of almost 300 years, our ethics and dedication will continue to guide us. Together, we have shared values and an ethical approach towards our members, customers and colleagues.

We’re officially recognised as a 'Great Place to Work' and our benefits go beyond basic pay, with a discretionary bonus scheme, a culture of reward and recognition and comprehensive support for wellbeing. We’re serious about equality, of race, age, faith, disability, and sexual orientation and we celebrate diversity. By working together, we know you’ll build more than just a career with us.

Flexibility and why it matters: We understand the need for flexibility, so wherever possible, we’ll consider alternative working patterns. Have a chat with us before you apply to see what the possibilities are for this role.

Proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer: We’re proud to offer an interview or assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for our vacancies. As part of the application process, disabled applicants can opt in for the Disability Confident Interview Scheme. If there are ever occasions where it is not practicable to interview all candidates that meet the essential criteria, such as when we receive a high number of applications, we commit to interviewing disabled candidates who best meet the minimum essential and desirable criteria.

Location: Coventry