Data Analyst (Cyber) in Manchester

• Data Analyst (Cyber)
• Full time / Part time

Salary: £44,297 - £49,813, with potential for further progression to £56,082 with our pay progression scheme.

Through hybrid working we offer flexible home and office-based working opportunities and there will be times when you will be expected to attend the office to collaborate with colleagues or travel due to business need.

Why work for the ICO?

• Pay progression scheme.
• Hybrid and flexible working options.
• 25 days paid holiday per year, plus privilege and public holidays.
• Flexi leave (up to 26 additional days leave per year).
• Pension (employer contribution around 28.9%).
• Online discount scheme to save money at major supermarkets, retailers, gyms, restaurants, insurance providers and many more.
• Health Cash Plan.
• Fantastic development opportunities to learn and progress.

Further details can be found on the benefits section of our website.

Job summary

Help shape how the ICO uses data to understand and respond to cyber risk.

As a Data Analyst specialising in cyber data, you’ll transform complex information into clear, actionable insight that supports regulatory decision-making.

From analysing cyber breach data and developing innovative reporting products to supporting information sharing with key partners, you’ll help strengthen the ICO’s cyber analytics capability and its position as a leading public-sector collaborator.

The Information Commission (ICO) is the independent regulator of information rights.

In a data-driven world, we provide advice, guidance, and support to organisations enabling compliance with their obligations, as well as protecting individuals and their personal data.

As an employer, we are passionate about making a positive difference to the lives and careers of our people, and we empower you to be curious, impactful, collaborative and respectful.

Job description

Reporting to the Senior Data Analyst, you’ll become a key data specialist within the team, working with colleagues across the ICO to analyse cyber data, develop meaningful reporting and create data products that help turn complex information into clear, actionable insights.

You’ll work on a varied range of activity, from analysing cyber breach data and developing dashboards and reporting metrics, to supporting information sharing with key partner agencies.

You’ll have the opportunity to explore new ways of collecting, validating and analysing data, using data visualisation and advanced analytical techniques to bring the story behind the data to life.

This is also a role where your expertise and ideas will make a real difference.

You’ll contribute to cross-team discussions, provide insight and options to senior stakeholders, and identify opportunities to improve how we use data across critical areas of our work.

As part of the role, you’ll help grow cyber data analysis as a capability across the ICO, supporting our ambition to be a strong public-sector cyber collaborator and a leader in the effective use of data and analytics.

Key Responsibilities

• Support data sharing and associated process improvements and optimisation, including compilation of data for various stakeholder groups and reporting purposes.
• Ability to act with autonomy within their specialism for cyber data operational matters across the office.
• Deliver against the agreed cyber data plan, including the mapping of cyber data and definition of cyber data frameworks.
• Develop and implement new approaches for effective cyber data use and data verification, facilitating cross-team discussion and providing options to senior stakeholders.
• Perform complex analysis of specific datasets to provide insights and support decisions.
• Visualise data, where necessary, to facilitate external team’s, self-service reporting.
• Provide dedicated Subject Matter Expertise (SME) support for complex and unique issues, matrix managing across teams, when necessary.
• Oversee insights gathering and generation from various data sources to inform actionable decisions.
• Provide input into DDa T and intelligence activities which may impact cyber.
• Liaise with Economic Analysis stakeholders to ensure that Quality Assurance processes are followed for new reporting that meets defined and agreed thresholds.
• Use research to analyse future political, social, legal and technological developments that impact on the ICO’s regulatory activity in relation to cybersecurity.
• Champion the development of staff in relation to cyber data, creating an inclusive environment which values diversity, encourages learning and development and identifies and acts where capabilities need to be improved.
• Identify opportunities to automate / standardise and replicate data processes and reporting in relation to cyber.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues and stakeholders to build a centralised, coordinated, joined-up cybersecurity data landscape.
• Provide data SME support for complex tasks and technical advice and/or DDa T liaison for new data approaches / workstreams.
• Promoting efficiency and continuity by ensuring data knowledge, EDS principals and industry best practice is shared and embedded.

Person specification

Essential criteria assessed at application stage

• Experience of delivering against a data strategy within a medium-sized or large organisation.
• Experience of creating data analytics reports, dashboards and visualisations in support of a wide range of contexts and use cases.
• Experience of data analytics and related technologies (Power Bi, SQL or similar)
• Experience of applying data governance, data ethics and data protection principles to analytics.
• Demonstrable experience of building products in support of cross-office teams for a variety of stakeholders and uses.

Essential criteria assessed during interview

• Knowledge of statistical methodologies and data analysis techniques.
• Able to select the right approach to creating meaningful and actionable insights.
• Understanding of wider data profession practices and experience of delivering using adaptive methodologies such as Agile.
• Knowledge of the cyber and privacy landscape, regulations and related compliance obligations.
• Knowledge of the public sector and regulatory environment, or clear appreciation of specifics and complexities and how they would influence the role.
• Actively keeps informed of industry developments to make cost-effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication and presentation skills including the ability to explain technical matters to a non-technical audience.
• Personally effective – excellent organisational skills, ability to prioritise and delegate.
• Communicating effectively across organisational boundaries, understanding the context.
• Excellent problem-solving ability and an ability to deal with ambiguity, develop innovative solutions and make decisions on high profile and complex issues.
• An awareness of the cyber security landscape and key stakeholders.
• Equality, diversity, and inclusion

The ICO is committed to promoting and enhancing equality, diversity, and inclusion.

We are focused on developing a workforce that is representative of the communities we serve and together we are building an inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.

We are championing this through our Equality Diversity and Inclusion Board together with a number of staff networks.

Read more about our commitment on our website.

Candidates with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for this vacancy will be invited to interview as part of the ICO's commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme.

As part of the ICO's commitment to our EDI objectives and creating a workplace that represents the communities and societies we serve, we guarantee an interview to candidates who declare they identify as belonging from an ethnic minority background and who meet the minimum criteria for this vacancy.

• Clearance Required for this role
• Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)