Merseyrail are seeking a skilled and collaborative Data Scientist to join the IT & Transformation team and play a key role in our data-driven journey. You'll work closely with cross-functional teams to identify critical business challenges, leverage advanced analytics and AI to solve them, and ultimately drive innovation throughout Merseyrail.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with departments across the business to identify key challenges and opportunities, then design and deploy solutions to address them.
• Champion and promote the use of AI across the business, leading proof-of-concept initiatives and demonstrating its potential.
• Develop and maintain user-friendly BI tools and dashboards, transforming raw data into actionable insights for informed decision-making.
• Collaborate with colleagues to ensure data quality and integrity throughout the organisation.
• Extract, transform, and load data from various sources into BI applications.
• Own the design, development, and maintenance of metrics, reports, analyses, and dashboards for key business decisions.
• Continuously learn and experiment with new technologies and methodologies, sharing your knowledge with the team.
• Deliver training and support for internal users on newly developed applications.
• Analyse current workflows and applications to find opportunities for optimisation and maximise value.
• Assist the Solutions Architect with additional tasks as needed.

Skills, experience, knowledge, qualifications and training:

• Minimum of 5 years working in a related role (critical)
• Experience in working with databases such as SQL & Oracle (desirable)
• Experience in using  BI tools .e.g Power BI, Qlik sense  (critical)
• Experience in designing and developing  dashboards for desktop and mobile  (Critical))
• Experience in developing / architecting BI Solutions for supporting financial, sales, marketing ,procurement and HR (desirable)
• Experience in sourcing data from disparate systems with a good understanding of their Data Models and ETL procedures (desirable)
• Full understanding of the processes of data quality, data cleansing and data transformation (critical)
• Ability to write complicated yet efficient SQL queries and stored procedures (Critical)
• Experience in implementation of Business Intelligence (BI) projects, especially in scorecards, KPIs, reports & dashboards (Critical)
• Enthusiastic about learning large and complex systems (critical)
• Proven delivery of user friendly applications (desirable)
• Detail-oriented with strong organisational, analytical and communication skills (critical)
• Results-driven with the ability to take initiatives, handle multiple tasks and shifting priorities and meet deadlines (critical)
• Excellent problem solving skills, logical process thinking and end-to-end system concepts (critical)
• Solves complex problems with creative solutions (critical)
• Basic project management skills to plan and execute data related projects (Critical)

If you're a skilled Data Scientist eager to leverage your expertise to solve complex problems and drive business value, we encourage you to apply!

Shortlisted applicants will be invited to complete an online assessment and attend interview(s).

For further information about this role, please contact by email, Thomas Philip, Solution Architect tphilip@merseyrail.org

"As an equal opportunities employer, Merseyrail particularly welcomes applications from Black, Asian, Minority, Ethnic (BAME) backgrounds as they are currently underrepresented throughout the UK. All appointments will be made on merit of skill and experience relative to the role."