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Information Systems Specialist Full Time

at Sheffield City Council Sheffield in Sheffield (Published at 11-11-2024)

Job description We have an exciting opportunity for an Information System Specialist to join the Application Innovation & Data Team within Digital Innovation and ICT, Strategic Enabling Services.

We are seeking a meticulous and detail-oriented individual to join our team with a focus on applying analytical tools to provide business insights on trends, behaviour and anomaly detection. You will be responsible for producing accurate and insightful reports and documentation to support the team with its role of supporting the wider department with their system usage and information recording. This role will play a critical part in communicating complex technical information in a clear and concise manner, helping colleagues make informed decisions and optimise IT resources.

To be successful in this role, you will need a high level of organisational and prioritisation skills, as well as a proven ability to quickly adapt to new exciting challenges. You will turn complex business information into clearly scoped analysed outputs. You will be comfortable making sense out of very large datasets, designing and refining crisp interactive dashboards that support the work of the team.

In this role you would need to:

  • Extract and explore data confidently using SQL and Report Manager, and other tools as required.
  • Develop and maintain, ad-hoc reports for anomaly detection.
  • Analyse the root cause of system problems, and work to resolve them.
  • Support 1st line help desk colleagues by investigating queries and deliver recommendations with supporting analysis.
  • Design & build interactive dashboards.
  • Communicate with colleagues to gather requirements and understand business challenges or client specific issues.

You will need:

  • Experience in data analysis, working with large amounts of client and financial data.
  • Advanced reporting skills, in particular SQL
  • Experience with Data visualisation tools and a history of developing interactive and engaging dashboards that allow users to self-serve.
  • To understand or have a willingness to learn, education, social care and financial processes.

Assessment for the role will be based on an application form considering your relevant skills, knowledge and experience. Shortlisting will be carried out based on the specific skills and experience requirements listed above as well as the job description. Please contact [email protected] for an informal discussion about the post. If selected for interview, this will be combined with a technical assessment or brief presentation.

Sheffield City Council does not accept CVs

Working for Sheffield City Council brings with it great opportunities and benefits. You would work with a range of the Council’s information systems.

The package includes a pension scheme and flexible working arrangements.

We are investing in our workforce and are promoting opportunities to our under-represented groups. We value equality, diversity and inclusion and are focused on increasing the diversity of our workforce, particularly the number of Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, Disabled and LGBTQ+ people, so that our teams reflect the communities in the city we serve. We are also supporting staff with unpaid caring responsibilities to work flexibly.

It is a great time to join us and we welcome your application.

Under the Disability Confident Scheme, disabled applicants, who meet the essential criteria of this job, are guaranteed an interview.

Full-time employees work 37 hours for 52 weeks of the year and we offer a generous holiday entitlement. We are open to discussions about a wide range of flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the Council, including reduced hour contracts, working part time or as a job share.
All successful candidates will be required to complete a Basic DBS check.

If you are appointed to this role, your starting salary will be at the bottom of the grade. If you provide payslip evidence that your basic pay is greater than the bottom of the grade, we will consider starting you at the point of minimum advantage within the grade.


Job details

Job reference REQ002849 Date posted 11/11/2024 Application closing date 24/11/2024 Location Sheffield Salary Grade 8, £41,511 to £44,711 Package Permanent Contractual hours 37 Job category/type Digital and ICT


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