Analytics Engineering Lead

Job Description –Analytics Engineering Lead 

 About Freespace* (a.k.a. Workplace Fabric)  

Workplace Fabric develops solutions that makes workplaces intelligent. Our solutions help increase productivity of office workers while helping to lower the cost of real estate. Our Flagship 

product Freespace is installed in over 40 cities around the world and serves over 30,000 people every day. Starting with the first deployment in March 2016 we have rapidly grown with our solution being rolled out globally while continuing to stay cash positive. With successes at several blue-chip clients Workplace Fabric has carved a unique leadership position in workplace management and employee engagement SaaS solutions. 

*To find out more, follow us on social media – LinkedIn & Facebook @ workplace-fabric 

What is on our offer?  

• An absolutely action packed, fun, and demanding workplace lets our employees to thrive in a team-based environment with passion, fun, pride and teamwork as our core values. 
• We can offer you career opportunities to challenge, develop and exceed your aspirations with training and development throughout your career. 
• Life is never dull at Freespace as there is always something to learn, constantly pushing you to develop your skills and take on the next exciting challenge. 

 Profile Brief:  

This is a fantastic opportunity to work at the heart of a data driven organisation to shape the business insights crucial to our clients as they return to the workplace. 

You will work closely with the Analytics product owner to build and develop a strong, motivated, cross functional analytics team, delivering high quality, creative solutions for clients.  

You have overall responsible for the analytics development team and delivery. Set the direction to ensure the team can meet the exciting and challenging demands, using different technologies. Own the delivery of the product roadmap and lead through a tight scrum process to deliver quality, timely solutions. 

Work closely with the product owner and client facing teams to ensure the client needs are well understood when developing and delivering innovative solutions.  

The lead role will have experience in leading development teams to deliver web solutions and will have a passion for data and analytics. They will understand how to manage big data and should ideally also have an understanding of industry leading analytics platforms, specifically Tableau. As such, should have experience in leading teams with cross disciplinary skills working on multiple platforms. 

They will be well versed in working across the organisation with senior technical leads to ensure the analytics service and solutions meets the organisational technology standards and delivers secure, compliant and accurate solutions for the client. 

Education 

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience 
• If you have the right experience and skills but don’t have a relevant degree, please apply for the role. 

Key Skills and Experience  

• Required Skills: Team Leadership, Scrum 

• Good to have: JavaScript (ES6+), SQL, Nodejs, React, AWS, TypeScript, amCharts, D3.js (or industry equivalent), Tableau understanding 

Experience: 6-10 years 

• Proven track record in growing and developing a high-performance team. 
• Experience working with big data architectures and analytics. 

• In-depth knowledge of regulatory rules surrounding data. 
• Ability to understand, design and fully document end-to-end scalable IoT systems. 
• Knowledge of Well-Architected solutions using AWS Services (eg Lambda, Athena, S3 etc). 
• Knowledge in developing frontend applications and ideally analytics dashboards using .js charts. 
• Comfortable with JavaScript, ES6+, TypeScript & emerging web technologies. 

• Data processing and manipulation experience and able to easily comprehend and write efficient SQL queries. 
• Able to lead the team but get stuck in and contribute. 
• Rich experience of handling multi-national clients. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English. 

 Key Behaviors  

• Be passionate about understanding the business problem and using data to tell the stories in delivering solutions which drive client decisions. 
• Inspire, develop and mentoring a motivated, enthusiastic team. 
• Lead by example and ensuring best practice principles embedded within the team. 

• Own the delivery of the product roadmap through Scrum and ensure team resourced and assigned appropriately 
• See projects through from conception into production and support, ensuring quality throughout. 
• Ensure high standards by instilling  data quality checks, code reviews and documentation in work and team practices. 
• Clear thinker with a systematic problem-solving approach, breaking the problem down into simple achievable and realistically estimated steps. 
• Able to challenge solutions and processes in creating the best products and environment to work. 

• Be unafraid to own mistakes 
• Always ensure customer priority and focus 

Key Areas of Responsibilities: 

• Partner with Corporate IT Security Architects, the Development Head and CTO to ensure adherence to security practices and compliance for Infrastructure Engineering. 
• Partner with Product Management, Engineering and Support teams to collaboratively develop architectures and to support them conform to high standards of security practices and compliance.