Head of Analytics Engineering

Location: National*

Closing Date: 17/8/25

Interviews: w/c 1st September 2025

Grade: G6

(MoJ candidates on a specialist grade will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary:

National: £68,967 – £88,900 (including a potential allowance of up to £19,993)

London: £73,115 – £93,025 (including a potential allowance of up to £19,910)

Working pattern: full-time, part-time, flexible working, job share

Contract Type: Permanent

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing a balance between remote work and office presence. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role – Head of Analytics Engineering

Help transform the justice system through data

We’re recruiting for a Head of Analytics Engineering at the Ministry of Justice to join our Data & Analytics Engineering Hub.

We seek a strategic, hands-on leader to scale Analytics Engineering and turn raw data into improvements across prisons, courts, probation, and more. You will collaborate with the Head of Data Engineering to deliver analytical datasets and self-service tools on our platform.

Our team has grown from a pilot to over 40 members, pioneering the profession across government. We now need a permanent Head of Analytics Engineering to continue scaling sustainably.

You will lead talented Analytics Engineers, work with Data Engineers, Analysts, and Data Scientists, and shape how analytical datasets are built, governed, and used at MoJ. Details of team work can be found in our handbook.

This role aligns with the Head of Analytics Engineering role from the Government Digital and Data Framework.

What you’ll do

• Lead the profession and team: set vision, manage and develop Lead Analytics Engineers, promote diversity and high performance, support career growth.
• Set technical direction: design clean, well-modelled datasets, embed best practices in data modelling, quality, testing, governance, and stay updated with industry trends.
• Deliver across the justice system: oversee analytics engineering work in prisons, courts, probation, support cross-cutting data products, collaborate with other teams to meet user needs.
• Build a Centre of Excellence: establish a community of practice, lead training and peer learning, promote the profession externally, build industry relationships.
• Business partnering and stakeholder engagement: act as a strategic partner to senior leaders, foster a collaborative environment where analytics engineering drives decision-making and service improvement.

Benefits

• 37 hours/week with flexible options including remote, part-time, job share, or compressed hours.
• £1k learning budget, access to conferences, professional accreditation, funded vocational programs, e-learning.
• 10% time for personal development.
• Generous pension with 28.97% employer contributions from April 2024.
• 25 days leave plus holidays and additional days after 5 years.
• Parental leave policies with full pay options, maternity/paternity leave, and support.
• Wellbeing support, including Calm app.
• Networks for Carers, Gender Equality, PROUD, SPIRIT.
• Bike loans, secure parking, season ticket loans, vouchers, paid volunteering leave, onsite gym in some locations.

Who we’re looking for

We seek a leader with clarity, technical depth, and enthusiasm to shape a new profession. You should have: