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Our data team works with every part of the business, including academics, learner support, marketing, finance, and product, and this role will too. We are looking for someone who finds the problems worth solving, works out what is really causing them, and stays with the work until it changes something.\nData work has changed a lot in the past year. AI tools now handle much of the routine coding, so we care less about which tools you already know and more about how you think, how you work with people, and what your work achieves. You will need the technical baseline listed below, but between two candidates we will choose judgement, curiosity, and ownership over a longer list of tools.\nWho you are\nYou are curious. When a problem surfaces, you keep investigating until you understand the core issue, and then you solve it.\nYou take end-to-end ownership of your work, from the first conversation with a stakeholder through to rollout and adoption.\nYou have a figure-it-out attitude. 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