Location: National*
Closing Date: 22nd June 2026
Interviews
Technical tests week commencing 6th July
Panel interviews week commencing 20th July
Grade: HEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary**:
National £35,335 - £37,847 (which may include an allowance up to £1203)
London £40,014 - £42,859 (which may include an allowance up to £474)
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Number of vacancies: 5
Vacancy number:
*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
Please note this role requires you to pass Security Check clearance. Please click on the link for details.
We’re recruiting for an Analytics Engineer here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Data Modelling and Engineering community team.
This role aligns against Analytics Engineer from the Government Digital and Data Framework
This is a great opportunity to work with leading cloud technology and help change the way data is used in the public sector. Analytics engineers at Ministry of Justice (MoJ) play a critical role in our mission to put data at the heart of decision-making. We're looking for people with the drive to develop a deep understanding of data needs and data availability across specific areas of the MoJ. You will work in a team of Analytics Engineers, alongside Data Engineers, to bridge the gap between data producers and data users, developing analytical pipelines and self-service tools to acquire and transform data, making it available on our Analytical Platform.
You’ll receive a range of excellent benefits when you join our department, including:
A generous employer pension contribution of 28.97% through the Civil Service Pension Scheme.
25 days of annual leave, (increasing to 30 days once you have reached 5 years of service), plus 8 bank holidays and a privilege day for the King’s birthday.
Flexible working arrangements including hybrid working, working part time or compressed hours. Designed to support a positive work-life balance.
Employees are allocated 10% of their working time for personal and professional development.
A £1k per person learning budget is in place to support all our people, with access to best-in-class conferences and seminars, accreditation with professional bodies, fully funded vocational programmes and e-learning platforms.
Compassionate maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave policies, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
You can find more details of the Benefits we offer here. To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital, Data and Science please take a look at our blog.
As an Analytics Engineer your work might involve:
Gathering requirements and translating these into clear deliverables.
Working with data engineers and members of our data platform teams to prioritise, plan and deliver work.
Turning needs and opportunities into flexible, quality-assured, dimensional models for use by analysts and data scientists and ensuring dimensions are conformed wherever possible.
Ensuring content is complete and accurate, and producing summary outputs to demonstrate this completeness and accuracy.
Providing tools to collect, store and present metadata and documentation that enable people to use data intelligently.
Drawing attention to data quality / data governance issues.
Acting as a key point of contact for our analytical user community, helping data users to automate their work, supporting them with tools like dbt and airflow.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Essential:
We welcome applications from anyone with the skills we consider make a good analytics engineer. You may not currently be in an analytics engineering role and that's ok. Many of our team have a background in analysis, data science, software engineering, and much more.
Below, we list a few skills we are looking for in candidates. If you don't have experience with all of these then that's all right! We encourage you to still apply and give us the chance to consider your application. A key attribute we're interested in is the willingness and ability to learn; learning and development is something we value and prioritise within our community.
Essential Criteria
You will have experience of:
Experience working with SQL, or similar tools to query or transform data.
Experience working with data from multiple sources such as large relational databases.
Testing and quality assuring data.
Working with business intelligence / visualisation tools such as Power BI, QuickSight or similar.
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for SC clearance
We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.
Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.
Base salary for this role is from £35,335 to £37,847 (National), £40,014 - £42,859 (London)
Existing Civil Servants moving on a level transfer will retain their current base salary or move to the minimum of the pay band for the role, whichever is higher.
Existing Civil Servants who are promoted will either move to the bottom of the new grade’s pay band or receive a 10% uplift, whichever provides the greater increase.
Candidates may also be eligible for a non‑pensionable Government Digital & Data Allowance of up to £1203 (National), £474 per year (London) This is a temporary allowance, reviewed annually and may be retained, amended, or withdrawn.
The final offer will reflect the skills and experience you demonstrate during the assessment process.
In Justice Digital, Data and Science, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We shall assess a combination of your Experience, Technical skills and Behaviours during the assessment process.
Stage 1 - Application and sift:
To apply for this position, you must submit the following as part of your application (
An anonymised CV, maximum 2 pages at font size 12, including career history, responsibilities, and achievements. You will be assessed against the essential criteria outlined within the Person Specification of this advert.
A cover letter which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above - this should be no longer than 750 words. It should specifically address the following criteria listed below, using a separate paragraph for each.
Experience working with SQL, or similar tools to query or transform data.
Experience working with data from multiple sources such as large relational databases.
Testing and quality assuring data.
Working with business intelligence / visualisation tools such as Power BI, QuickSight or similar.
A diverse sift panel will review the information in your CV and Personal Statement to assess the sift criteria specified above. We operate an anonymous shortlisting process. Please ensure your CV and Personal Statement do not include your name or any other identifying details.
Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on experience working with SQL, or similar tools to query or transform data. will be conducted before the sift.
Please access the following link for guidance on how to apply - Application Guidance
Stage 2 - Interviews:
Candidates who meet the required standard will be invited to undertake a 1-hour technical test, if you pass the technical test, you will be invited to a 1-hour panel interview (on a separate date) held via video conference.
At interview stage, you will be assessed against the following Success Profile elements - Experience, Technical and the following Behaviours:
Communicating and Influencing
Making Effective Decisions
Appointments are made strictly in merit order. If two or more candidates receive identical interview scores, the behaviour Communicating and Influencing will be applied as the primary lead criterion to determine the final merit order.
Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.
Use of Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.
Please review our Terms and Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk