Senior Analytics Engineer (Ref: 19453) in Edinburgh

Location: Staffordshire, UK; Elgin Ave., London W9 2NR, UK; Scotland; Wales, UK

Salary: 42,914 - 53,081 per year

Employment: Flexible

Category: Business Intelligence

Posted: 2026-07-04

Valid to: 2026-08-11

Apply: Application Link

Employer: Ministry of Justice

This position is based nationally.

Closing Date: 10/08/2026

Interviews: Rolling – from w/c 13th July – w/c 31st Aug

Grade: SEO

Salary: National: 42,914 - 46,182 (may include an allowance of up to 9,424) London: 49,325 - 53,081 (may include an allowance of up to 7,440)

Working pattern: full-time, part-time, flexible working

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 19453

We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP.

Please note that unless you are an existing member of staff at Justice Digital, Data and Science, the only London location being recruited to is 10 South Colonnade, E14 4PU. We are no longer recruiting to 102 Petty France, SW1H 9AJ.

The Role: This role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. We’re recruiting for a Senior Analytics Engineer here at Justice Digital, Data and Science, to be part of our warm and collaborative Data Modelling and Engineering team. This role aligns against Senior Analytics Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework. This is a great opportunity to work with leading cloud technology and help change the way data is used in the public sector. Analytics engineers at MoJ play a critical role in our mission to put data at the heart of decision-making. We're looking for people with the drive to develop a deep understanding of data needs and data availability across specific areas of the Ministry of Justice. You will work in a team of Analytics Engineers, alongside Data Engineers, to bridge the gap between data producers and data users, developing analytical pipelines and self-service tools to acquire and transform data, making it available on our Analytical Platform.

You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:

• A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
• 25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
• Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work–life balance.
• Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development. A 1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
• Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!

Key Responsibilities: As a Senior Analytics Engineer, you will:

• Gather requirements from users and translate these into clear deliverables for the Data Engineering and Modelling teams.
• Build, test and maintain dimensional data models that enable analysis and reporting, ensuring data dimensions are conformed where possible.
• Collaborate with Data Engineers and Data Platform colleagues to prioritise, plan, and deliver solutions that enable better decision making.
• Lead on ensuring the completeness, accuracy, and quality of data pipelines and models.
• Develop and maintain metadata, documentation, and self-service tools to support data discovery and intelligent use.
• Highlight data quality or governance issues and work collaboratively to drive improvements.
• Act as a key point of contact for analytical user communities, promoting automation, efficiency and adoption of tools such as dbt and Airflow.
• Support others across the organisation to learn, adopt and implement new tools and technologies.
• Help to build and foster a culture of continuous learning and technical excellence within the data community.

If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!

Person Specification: The listed requirements are important for the job, however we do not expect candidates to be an expert in all of them. Please provide as much evidence as you can and make sure you cover ‘how’ you demonstrated the requirements and the impact of your work, as well as ‘what’ you did.

Essential: We are looking for people with experience in the following:

• Using SQL to query and transform data
• Dimensional modelling including designing and populating star schemas
• Working with large relational databases
• Testing and quality assuring data
• Building data and analytical pipelines
• Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor. Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together.

Salary Information: Base salary for this role is from 42,914 - 46,182 (National), 49,325 - 53,081 (London). New entrants to the Civil Service joining the MoJ are expected to start at the minimum of the pay band. Existing Civil Servants moving on a level transfer will retain their current base salary or move to the minimum of the pay band for the role, whichever is higher. Existing Civil Servants who are promoted will either move to the bottom of the new grade’s pay band or receive a 10% uplift, whichever provides the greater increase. Candidates may also be eligible for a non‑pensionable Government Digital & Data Allowance of up to 9424 per year (National) or 7440 (London). This is a temporary allowance, reviewed annually and may be retained, amended, or withdrawn. The final offer will reflect the skills and experience you demonstrate during the assessment process.

How to Apply: In Justice Digital, Data and Science, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We shall assess a combination of your Experience, Technical skills and Behaviours during the assessment process.

Stage 1 - Application and sift: To apply for this position, you must submit the following as part of your application:

• An anonymised CV, maximum 2 pages at font size 12, including career history, responsibilities, and achievements.
• A Personal Statement (no more than 750 words) which should outline your experience and skills, giving clear examples of work undertaken. It should specifically address the following criteria listed below, using a separate paragraph for each.

Dimensional modelling including designing and populating star schemas
Working with large relational databases
Testing and quality assuring data
Building data and analytical pipelines

A diverse sift panel will review the information in your CV and Personal Statement to assess the sift criteria specified above. We operate an anonymous shortlisting process. Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement do not include your name or any other identifying details. Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on Using SQL to query and transform data and dimensional modelling including designing and populating star schemas will be conducted.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security: Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.

Nationality requirements: This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020

Working for the Civil Service: The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles. The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities.

Apply and further information: The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction.

Contact point for applicants: Job contact: Name: SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team Email: moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk Telephone: 0345 241 5359