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You'll help turn complex data into reliable, accessible information, supporting service teams to understand performance and make informed decisions.\nYou'll work closely with technical colleagues, service managers, and other stakeholders to understand requirements, resolve data challenges, and deliver practical solutions that meet agreed business needs.\nAbout the Role\nAs a Senior Database and Analytics Developer, you'll design, develop, and maintain database and analytics solutions, ensuring information is accurate, appropriately controlled, and available for reporting and operational use.\nYou'll take a structured approach to development, testing, troubleshooting, and documentation, balancing new requirements with improvements to existing systems. You'll also provide technical guidance and support effective knowledge sharing throughout the assignment.\nWhat you'll be doing:\nDesigning, developing, and maintaining database solutions, creating structures, queries, views, and procedures that meet agreed requirements.\nDeveloping data integration and transformation processes, bringing information together from different sources and preparing it for reporting and analysis.\nBuilding and improving reports, dashboards, and analytical datasets, helping users access clear, relevant, and reliable information.\nInvestigating data quality issues, identifying inconsistencies, validating outputs, and working with data owners to resolve underlying problems.\nMonitoring and improving database and query performance, troubleshooting issues and recommending changes to improve reliability and efficiency.\nWorking with stakeholders to gather and clarify requirements, translating business needs into technical specifications and practical solutions.\nTesting and documenting development work, following agreed change-control processes and maintaining clear records of data structures, transformations, and dependencies.\nSupporting secure and sustainable use of data, following approved access controls, providing technical guidance, and ensuring clear documentation and handover arrangements.\nRequirements\nWe're looking for a technically capable, analytical, and organised developer with experience delivering database and reporting solutions in a complex organisation.\nYou'll be confident investigating technical problems, explaining findings clearly, and working with colleagues who have different levels of technical knowledge. Attention to detail, a collaborative approach, and the ability to manage competing priorities will be important.\nYou'll ideally have:\nExperience in database development, data engineering, analytics development, or a similar technical role.\nStrong SQL skills, including experience writing, testing, and optimising complex queries and database routines.\nExperience working with relational databases and data models, with an understanding of how design choices affect accuracy, usability, and performance.\nExperience developing data integration and transformation processes, including extracting, cleaning, validating, and loading information from multiple sources.\nExperience with reporting or business intelligence tools, producing useful reports, dashboards, or datasets for different audiences.\nStrong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with the ability to identify the causes of data or performance issues and implement appropriate solutions.\nExperience following structured development practices, including testing, version control, technical documentation, and controlled deployment.\nStrong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to explain technical information clearly and provide guidance to colleagues.\nExperience working within a local authority or another public-sector organisation would be beneficial.\nApplicants should have the right to work in the UK, be available for the stated assignment period, and be able to meet the Council's confirmed attendance requirements. Relevant references and any required pre-employment checks will need to be completed.\nWhy Apply\nThis is an opportunity to apply your database and analytics expertise within a Council environment, helping services access dependable information and improve the way they use data.\nThe role offers varied technical work across database development, data integration, reporting, and performance improvement. You'll have the opportunity to solve practical problems, collaborate with service teams, and deliver solutions that can continue to support the organisation beyond the assignment.\nAdditional Information\nCustomer: Isle of Wight Council\nJob Title: Senior Database and Analytics Developer\nEmployment Type: Temporary\nPositions Available: 1\nJob Location: County Hall, High Street, Newport, Isle of Wight, PO30 1UD\nHours: 37 hours per week\nTarget Start Date: 26 October 2026\nTarget End Date: 28 March 2027\nContract Duration: 22 weeks\nPay Rate: £36.00 per hour - Umbrella\nWorking Arrangement: To be confirmed\nTechnical Environment: Database platforms, reporting tools, and development technologies to be confirmed\nJob Types: Full-time, temporary\nPay: £36.00 per hour - Umbrella\nApplication Questions\nPlease describe your database development and analytics experience, including the database platforms, programming languages, and reporting tools you have used.\nCan you provide an example of developing a data integration or reporting solution, including how you addressed data quality, testing, and performance?\nPlease confirm your current location and your ability to attend County Hall, Newport, Isle of Wight, subject to the Council's confirmed working arrangements.\nAre you available to start on 26 October 2026 and remain available throughout the assignment, ending 28 March 2027?\nExperience\nDatabase development and SQL: Desirable.\nData integration, reporting, and analytics development: Desirable.\nLocal authority or public-sector experience: Desirable.\nWork Authorisation\nUnited Kingdom: Required.\nDisclaimer: On applying for this vacancy, you agree that your personal details will be passed onto our client for their consideration of your suitability for the role. 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