Introduction

Who we are

We are an organisation that exists to drive progress. That's the “red thread” that connects everyone at The Economist Group (TEG). Our businesses share a devotion to innovation, independence and rigour in their fields of expertise. We empower people to understand and tackle the critical challenges and changes facing the world. Our analytical rigour, global expertise and evidence-based insights enable individuals and organisations to make sense of these shifts and chart a course through them.

Our story began in 1843, when a Scottish hat manufacturer founded The Economist newspaper to further the cause of free trade. Since then, we have evolved into a staunchly independent global media and information-services company that provides intelligent thinking for an international audience. We deliver our analysis and insights in many formats to subscribers and clients in 170 countries with four businesses, each of which upholds our global reputation for excellence and integrity.

The Economist

Through rigorous reporting, in-depth analysis and global perspective, The Economist explains today’s most important events and seeks to discern the trends that will shape tomorrow. At the core of everything we do is our independence, underpinned by our editorial culture and governance structure.

With subscribers in more than 170 countries, The Economist is one of the most widely recognised and well-read current affairs publications in the world. In addition to the weekly print and digital editions and Economist.com, The Economist publishes Espresso, a daily news app; World in Brief, a daily news and analysis digest updated around the clock; numerous newsletters and podcasts including The Intelligence, our daily news podcast.

The role

The technical business analyst will be a subject matter expert on our data analytics platform. Understanding what data is available, how we bring new data sets in, being able to model those and expose them for insights reporting. Translating build requirements to developers. Working with stakeholders to deliver valuable data developments.

Embedded within an excellent, highly collaborative and supportive data, research and insights focused team. You will support and grow the data and insights domain within the Economist Group

Accountabilities

How you will contribute in this role:

• Working closely with Insight analysts, Product Managers, Data Architects and development teams to ensure business data requirements are translated into appropriate technical data solutions, acting as a ‘translator’ between business, data and technology

• Supporting research, data and insights with data lifecycle management, by fielding business requirements, creating backlog tasks, defining technical minimum acceptance criteria, and quality assuring technical solutions prior to implementation

• Getting requirements analysis ready for the tech delivery team by performing source data evaluation, data system modelling, data mappings and data flow analysis

• Providing detailed data mappings between source systems and target data models to the development team, based on business requirements.

• Promoting data system efficiency and security by recommending enhancements to data operations and proposing data procedure improvements.

• Understanding, interpreting and documenting business processes along with their underpinning data elements.Supporting development and test teams with data requirements, and assisting with data integration and acceptance testing.

Experience, skills and professional attributes

What we’re looking for:

• Experience with a data platform preferable

• Highly motivated, proactive and hunger to solve problems to an excellent standard

• A STEM background ideally

• Initiative and desire to solve logical problems

• Ability to self-direct and take on broad projects from beginning to end

• Strong communication skills, especially in facilitating the use of new technology systems and understanding business requirements with broad set of stakeholders across levels, including senior management as required

Job LocationsUnited Kingdom-London

ID 2024-9974

Function Data, Analysis & Insights