At Affinity Water, we are on a journey to become a truly data-driven organisation. Data is central to how we meet our objectives and deliver exceptional outcomes for our customers. We are building a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement, enabling breakthrough performance across the business.

The Role
We are looking for a Qlik Data Analytics Team Lead to join our Performance and Insights team on a 24 month FTC. This role combines hands-on analytics delivery with people leadership, empowering a highly skilled team of Qlik Data Analysts to deliver high-quality insights and dashboards that inform business decisions.

As the Qlik Data Analytics Team Lead, you will:

• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Qlik Data Analysts, fostering a culture of learning, autonomy, and accountability.

• Design, build, and maintain interactive dashboards and reports using the Qlik suite, delivering actionable insights across multiple business areas.

• Oversee Qlik architecture, platform support, and service management, ensuring the smooth running of analytics platforms.

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business needs, identify data sources, and provide data-driven recommendations.

• Liaise with Technology teams to deliver highly performant and resilient data analytics platforms

What We’re Looking For

• Proven experience leading and developing technical teams, with a collaborative and empowering leadership style.

• Strong expertise in Qlik Sense, Qlik View, and Qlik Cloud, including dashboard design, scripting, and administration.

• Hands-on experience with SQL, data modeling, and data visualisation.

• Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

• Experience in data governance, data quality, and BI platform management.

• Knowledge of Business Objects, nPrinting, and modern cloud-based BI platforms is a plus.

• Pro-actively keep up to date with the evolving technologies, tools, and techniques in data analysis to continually enhance skills and improve analysis processe

What You’ll Bring

• Curious, proactive problem-solver with a “get-it-done” attitude

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to tell the “story of data” clearly.

• Ability to prioritise, plan, and organise work independently while managing a team.

• Commitment to continuous learning and staying up-to-date with analytics trends and technologies.

Benefits:

• Salary: circa £65,000 (salary dependant on skills and experience)

• Hours of work: 08:30am - 17:00pm (Mon - Thurs) 08:30am - 16:30pm (Friday)

• Learning and development opportunities, including mentoring and a range of formal courses and open learning resources.

• Entry into the company annual bonus scheme.

• Annual leave from 26-30 rising with length of service, and the option to purchase up to 5 extra days.

• A ‘Celebration Day’ in addition to public holidays that people can use to celebrate a religious festival or other occasion that is important to them.

• A generous 'double match pension scheme' that doubles the contributions you make (company contribution capped at 12%)

• We offer a range of family benefits including enhanced Maternity, Adoption, Paternity, Shared Parental Leave, Fertility Support Leave and up to 5 full or 10 half days of paid Carers Leave.

• Menopause policy and Reasonable Adjustment policy to help everyone perform at their best.

• Access to our Wellbeing Centre with support for looking after your physical and mental health.

• Discounts at a Range of Retail Outlets and on Dental and Medical Insurance through our Tap4Perks scheme.

• Up to 4 Affinity days a year to volunteer in the community.

• Life Assurance.

Disability Confident

As a Disability Confident employer, we’re committed to offering interviews to disabled candidates who meet the essential criteria and opt in on the application form. Ask the Talent Acquisition lead for the full job description to see all the criteria. If we have a very high volume of applicants and we’re not able to offer interviews to all, we’ll take a fair and proportionate number of disabled candidates through.

Affinity Water recognises the benefits of greater diversity in our workforce to better reflect the communities we serve. We are committed to building a more inclusive culture where every member of our workforce can thrive.

You can find out what it’s like to work at Affinity Water through our career site https://www.affinitywatercareers.co.uk/ where our colleagues share their career development stories and you can get a feel for our company culture.