Data Insights Lead

Job Title:

Data Insights  Lead

Location:

Frimley/Christchurch. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Please  speak  to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary:  £65,000 – £75,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing :

Ensure data is used ethically and appropriately, ensuring data is  managed  in compliance with legislative, security, export  control  and contractual requirements

Identify and promote where appropriate new tools and techniques for data  analysis , data manipulation and data visualisation (including the use of business information tools) and develop business intelligence reports that can be reused

Lead  teams summarising and presenting data and conclusions in the most appropriate format for users

Design, develop and construct data products and services, and integrate them into systems and business processes

Design, develop and construct data products and services, and integrate them into systems and business processes

Implement data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems catalogue, monitor and identify data assets that are essential to the organisation’s operations or services

Explore and visualise data to find patterns and transform them into organisational insight and make recommendations to address  complex  problems and to inform strategic and operational  decision  making

Your skills and experiences:

Experience of working in Data Analytics or an IT Function for a large  complex  organisation

Familiarity with Data and/or IT trends and good practice

Experience of delivering outputs in a ‘Product’ based environment using agile methods

A solid understanding of data, data analytics and data tools

Benefits:

As well as a  competitive  pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Data Insights team:

As a Data Insights  Lead  you will provide data  leadership  and subject matter  expertise  to set the data vision and strategy for Digital Intelligence (DI), whilst improving the data culture across DI and implementing innovative solutions. You will also be responsible for  leading  and  managing  a team of data analysts to deliver the data / business performance requirements for DI whilst supporting the teams development.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder  etc .)

that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please  speak  to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export  control  restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict  the roles  you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All  applicants   must  as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard.

Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where  applicants   must  typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for  the role , to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date:  29th January 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for  the role . Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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