Data Visualization Analyst

About us

National Grid is hiring a Data Visualization Analyst on our IT team. The preferred location for this role is Hicksville, NY.

Every day we deliver safe and secure energy to homes, communities, and businesses. We are there when people need us the most. We connect people to the energy they need for the lives they live. The pace of change in society and our industry is accelerating and our expertise and track record puts us in an unparalleled position to shape the sustainable future of our industry.

To be successful we must anticipate the needs of our customers, reducing the cost of energy delivery today and pioneering the flexible energy systems of tomorrow. This requires us to deliver on our promises and always look for new opportunities to grow, both ourselves and our business. IT and Digital works in a harmonized partnership with the National Grid group of diverse energy businesses to deliver technology which revolutionizes the way we operate. As we lead the charge towards a carbon-free future, our teams are embracing disruptive changes in our industry by working with Agile methodologies and adopting Digital mindsets to drive efficiency and bring new capabilities for our internal and external customers.

Our work here is critical. National Grid moves energy to millions of homes and businesses in the UK and US and the technology we utilize to complete that task is down to us. The successful applicant for this position will be an integral contributor towards this goal and we will support your professional development as part of our multi- cultural, customer-centric global team.

Job Purpose

The Data Visualization Analyst role is part of the Global Infrastructure Platform Operations (IPO) function. The role will own and champion the advancement of our current reporting capabilities and take it to the next level with others in the team.

Key Accountabilities

• Passionate about using data to improve outcomes and demonstrates deep expertise in developing high impact, user-friendly, innovative, and ethical BI and Reporting solutions in PowerBI and Service Now
• A growth mindset, collaboration and quality are core to this role
• Ensuring the quality of output is kept to a consistently high standard
• Staying up to date on the latest technology developments & embedding industry leading best practices, both technical and methodology based
• Communicating effectively with a diverse set of teams and broad stakeholder group
• Building and maintaining collaborative relationships with peers, team members, subject matter experts and stakeholders (inc. third parties to assess partnerships where applicable)
• Operate with a curious and skeptical mindset ensuring that this is embedded in your everyday work
• Actively lead and embed a coaching culture to get the best out of others in an environment where everyone in the team feels empowered to speak up or challenge where appropriate
• Excelling at selecting the right type of visual and dashboard design to convey a story with data and allow business users to extract insight from their data
• Proven experience at design and implement consistent design patterns, palettes and layouts for dashboards and data visualizations
• Able to demonstrate combining strong technical and creativity skills, to come up with incredible user experiences
• Data modelling

Qualifications

• Proven experience in Microsoft Power BI, ServiceNow analytics and Snowflake
• Demonstrable creativity and innovation in approaching and overcoming technical challenges
• Aptitude for analytics and identifying patterns within data to generate business insight
• Data manipulation skills - manipulating and cleansing large data sets to ensure that data meets standards and objectives
• A desire to understand business problems and to evaluate the results in a business context
• Advanced visualized skills - for example the use of Charticulator in Power BI
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and the ability to explain technical analysis to a non-technical audience
• High degree of personal motivation, ability to self-manage whilst being professional and personable
• Experience of solving issues and dealing with the uncertainty that can arise in project situations, including having a tenacious problem solving and can-do attitude
• Proven ability to adapt style of financial information presentation to suit a range of stakeholders, both financial and non-financial
• Able to adopt, explore and learn new technologies and capabilities
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight timescales as required

More Information

Salary

$100,000 - $125,000 a year

This position has a career path which provides for advancement opportunities within and across bands as you develop and evolve in the position; gaining experience, expertise and acquiring and applying technical skills. Candidates will be assessed and provided offers against the minimum qualifications of this role and their individual experience.

National Grid is an equal opportunity employer that values a broad diversity of talent, knowledge, experience and expertise. We foster a culture of inclusion that drives employee engagement to deliver superior performance to the communities we serve. National Grid is proud to be an affirmative action employer. We encourage minorities, women, individuals with disabilities and protected veterans to join the National Grid team.