Roles and Responsibilities

In this role, you will:

• be responsible for managing, maintaining and identifying new business analytics opportunities and pursuing the execution of your projects with a high level of autonomy through a clear Data & Analytics Strategy.

• effective leadership of a team, solving business problems using analytics, typically involving large data sets (SQL & PL-SQL)

• be driving operational excellence by using data and analytics to drive visibility, insights and actions to facilitate decision making across the whole business

• be assessing data maturity across the business, ownership and data management

• collaborate with the Data Science team (shared service) to embed AI capabilities in the business and then take ownership of these controls

• act as thought leader for the use of data and analytics to drive critical business decisions, business strategy and able to serve as coach / mentor for data analysts on the team

• lead cross-functional teams, and provide business / functional perspective to data science projects, and support problem scoping and structuring

• lead all data related activities (data discovery and organization on SQL/Big data stack, cleansing and data prep) to support development of new data science approaches and methodologies to improve operations and business outcomes

• lead program management, including operationalization of analytic methods and products in functional settings, and drive agile development of new methods and capabilities

• ensure customer adoption & drive consumption of analytics, and maximize usage and use of analytics with customers

• maintain effective working relationship with business leaders, stakeholders, users and partners Conduct project reviews, feasibility, prioritization, initiation, execution, user acceptance, operationalization for all project work related to the data analytics program(s)

• partner with shared technical and business resources (GRC, IT teams, Engineering, Product Management, Software CoE etc.) to effectively deliver and support solutions

• effectively communicate (i.e. status, issues, and escalations) to leadership and other various levels of the organization

• lead a team of data professionals, which includes three direct reports to begin with.

Essential Requirements

• Experience of managing, maintaining and identifying new business analytics opportunities and pursuing the execution of your projects with a high level of autonomy through a clear Data & Analytics Strategy

• You will have technical expertise in building data models and visual displays (BI) and have experience defining data strategies, whilst leading a team to deliver to the priorities

• Proven experience solving business problems using analytics, including problems that involve large data sets, e.g. SQL & PL-SQL in particular

• Knowledge of SQL and PL-SQL is a requirement for this role

• Experience of data warehousing and/or data maturity is highly desirable

• People leadership and team management.

Flexible Working

GE supports and encourages flexible working arrangements, where possible, and recognises the benefits to employees of having a positive work-life balance.

Total Reward

At GE Aviation we understand the importance of Total Reward.  Our flexible benefits plan, called FlexChoice, gives you freedom, choice and flexibility in the way you receive your benefits, as well as giving you the opportunity to make savings where possible. 

As a new joiner to GE we are pleased to be able to offer you the following as default in your benefit fund, which you then can tailor to meet your individual needs;

• Performance based annual bonus

• Non-contributory Pension           

• Life Assurance

• Group income protection

• Private medical cover

• Holiday Hourly equivalent of 26 days, with flexible option to buy or sell

UK Security Clearance

UK Security Clearance (SC) is required and must be maintained for this role. Candidates who do not meet the minimum requirements for UK Security Clearance are not eligible for this role on grounds of national security. If UK Security Clearance is not obtained, any offer of employment may be withdrawn on grounds of national security.

Right to Work

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, under the applicable UK immigration rules as may be in place from time to time, it may be that candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled candidate who does not require sponsorship is available to take up the post. For further information please visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.