Senior Data Analyst

Function
IoT
Our Company
We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business with a bold vision of our world's potential. We're people-centric and here to power good. Every day, we future-proof urban spaces, conserve natural resources, protect rainforests, and save lives. This is a world where innovation, technology, and deep expertise come together to take our company and customers from what's now to what's next. We make it happen through the power of acceleration.
Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to bring a better tomorrow closer to today. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement - your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things in the world are equally as important to us.
Job description
About the Role
We are seeking an enthusiastic and highly motivated Business Analyst to join our growing Data Science team.
Our team operates within a highly technical engineering environment, transforming large volumes of operational and engineering data into actionable insights that improve reliability, performance, maintenance, and business outcomes. While our Data Scientists develop advanced analytics, machine learning models, and anomaly detection solutions, this role will focus on delivering impactful visualisations, dashboards, reporting solutions, and business insights that enable stakeholders to make data-driven decisions.
This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys combining technical BI expertise with strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, helping bridge the gap between complex engineering data and everyday business decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
Business Intelligence & Dashboard Development
Design, develop, and maintain interactive dashboards and reports using Power BI and Grafana.
Create intuitive visualisations that translate complex engineering and operational data into clear business insights.
Ensure dashboards are performant, scalable, and aligned with business requirements.
Develop KPIs and metrics that support operational excellence and asset performance monitoring.
Stakeholder Engagement
Gather requirements from engineering, data science, and business stakeholders.
Understand user needs and convert them into effective reporting and visualisation solutions.
Provide training and support to dashboard users.
Governance & Best Practice
Maintain reporting standards and data quality.
Document dashboards, metrics, and reporting processes.
Advocate modern BI and data visualisation best practices.
Contribute ideas for improving reporting capabilities and user experience.
Essential Requirements
Current and valid Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate (PL-300) certification.
Proven experience developing professional dashboards and reports in Power BI.
Proven experience with Grafana dashboard development.
Strong understanding of data modelling, DAX, Power Query, and visualisation best practices.
Experience working with SQL and large datasets.
Ability to communicate complex findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.
Excellent stakeholder management and requirement-gathering skills.
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
Self-motivated, proactive, and genuinely enthusiastic about using data to drive improvement.
Desirable Requirements
Experience within engineering, transportation, rail, manufacturing, automotive, aerospace, utilities, or industrial environments.
Familiarity with Python, Spark, Databricks, or cloud-based data platforms.
Understanding of operational performance, maintenance, reliability, or asset management analytics.
Experience working alongside Data Science or Machine Learning teams.
Knowledge of data governance and reporting standards.
About us
We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.
Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
How we look after you
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.