Junior Data Analyst

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

Digital Asset Management are driving benefits to our clients through embedding our philosophy that ‘data is an asset’ across the lifecycle and breadth of digital assets. To enable this, Digital Asset Management group provide strategic, tactical, and technical services to our clients – guiding and supporting the implementation of asset management best‑practice, tailored to meet their organisational needs.

DAM are taking bolder steps in pursuing new clients, expanding our technical reach, and winning work as a collective. Therefore, successful candidates will play a pivotal role in Digital Asset Management, replenishing our team to provide support across disciplines.

We are seeking inquisitive, proactive, and agile thinkers to complement our team of technical professionals who collaborate within the digital environment. We would particularly like to hear from candidates that are willing and able to adapt and thrive in a varied environment – where technical and soft skills are combined to engage with opportunities and challenges.

As a Junior Data Analyst, candidates will work within multi-disciplinary teams: providing key contribution to the successful delivery of our digital and data asset management services, and working to build Arcadis’ reputation as a leader in our chosen markets.

As a Junior Data Analyst, the individual will immediately be contributing to the delivery of projects across our DAM data services workstream. This entails learning and following procedures to create, manipulate, analyse, and assure datasets for our clients (this includes involvement with data capture such as survey techniques and procedures).

This is a challenging space to work in, and requires an ability to learn and relate multiple concepts in parallel, frequently deal with uncertainty and changing parameters, and maintain a high level of rigor, transparency, and integrity. Project delivery may require intermittent travel to attend sites (e.g. to support survey work).

Growth and success will necessitate the development of strong communication skills, an ability to work effectively within a team (covering colleagues from multiple disciplines and levels of seniority), and an objective mindset that is able to read between the lines and constructively question both what solutions are needed and how we should go about delivering them.

• Developing insight and understanding of the critical role that digital information plays within our clients’ organisations.
• Creating and manipulating asset data using a variety of digital tools and solutions.
• Learning data management and handling skills, with an understanding of how processes and people underpin the quality and usability of information.
• Exposure to Asset Management standards and principles – relevant to managing both physical assets and the datasets that support them.
• Gaining background knowledge regarding the management lifecycle of digital solutions; through design, implementation, and maintenance / renewal or decommission.
• Employing clear written and spoken communication, that can adapt to the context and audience.

The role offers an opportunity to develop expertise covering in-depth technical knowledge of data, surveying, and asset management principles, and build into managing the implementation of solutions.

• Educated to bachelor’s or master’s Degree level from a recognised university. If from a non-STEM background, the candidate will be able to demonstrate they have obtained numeracy skills at GCSE level (or equivalent) to a reasonable standard.
• Good written and oral communication skills, with the potential to engage confidently with others.
• The ability to use programming languages or use specialist software packages is not a…