Division / Department - Corporate Development
Grade - Level 1
Status - Full Time or Happy to Talk Flexible Working
Contract Type - Permanent
Salary Grade Range - £45,374 - £57,478
Working Hours - 36.0 Hours per Week
Shift Allowance - No
Politically Restricted - No
Location - Surrey Police Headquarters, Guildford
The starting salary for this role will usually be at the bottom of the salary range and will be pro-rata if the working hours are less than full time.
We really welcome your interest in joining our Police Force. It is a privilege to lead the teams in Surrey Police and Sussex Police who continuously work selflessly and tirelessly in order to keep people in our counties safe.
We are looking for talented and inspirational people who put the needs of the public at the heart of everything that they do and who want to make a difference. If you feel you are that person then we want to hear from you.
We wish you all the very best with your application.
Chief Constable Tim De Meyer & Chief Constable Jo Shiner
From your first day with us you will be part of a policing family making a real difference.
It is our mission to identify and protect vulnerable people, prevent and respond to harm and keep people safe.
This role is pivotal in the drive to provide decision makers with dynamic access to information and be data informed. With the growing use of different technolgies to improve the service to the public it is vital Surrey Police has highly skilled technical data experts to transforms, tests and document raw data to create clean reliable data models in relation to Robotic Processes and automation. Utilising but not exclusively using platforms such as Blue Prism, MuleSoft (for system integration), Microsoft Fabric as well as automation tools such as Power Automate.
Using Blue Prism to develop Robotic Processes to automated repetitive, rule-based tasks across the organisation to streamline processes and therefore improve our overall effectiveness and efficiency by releasing capacity whilst improving data quality and insights which can be gained by our data holdings.
To be responsible for the design of processes to prepare, enrich and document data for use by developers and analysts using semantic models, Lakehouse’s and data warehouses to enable provide insight.
Be proficient in ingesting or accessing data through various pipelines or dataflows, utilising multiple automation technologies from AI ML/GEN, Power Automate and Power Apps to enable developers and analysts to provide visualisation and insights via Power Bi and other tools to stakeholder and business teams to drive data driven informed operational decision making.
Be accountable for transforming and testing data with dataflows, procedures, and notebooks to enable developers to design and build user facing visualisations combining multiple data sets to provide organisational insight to previously hidden or hard to reach data assets.
A degree in Computing, statistics, mathematics or a statistically related discipline or equivalent work experience.
Experience in developing Robotic Process Automations using Blue Prism. Experience in gathering business requirements and understand the business at different levels.
Demonstrate work experience in the creation and managing analytical assets such as semantic models, warehouses and Lakehouse.
Strong data modelling background with experience working with multiple data sources in cloud and fabric and deployment pipelines.
Industry experience in delivering Power BI/Microsoft Analytics solutions, with a good grounding in all associated areas including Governance.
Prepare and enrich data for analysis, securing and maintaining analytics assets and manage semantic models with associated documentation.
Experience in building dashboards, reports and cubes using SQL, MDX DAX, Power BI or other visualisation tools.
Experience of establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with stakeholders, developers, analysts and data scientists internally and externally.
Good communication, interpersonal and presentation skills to influence internal and external stakeholders and suppliers.
Ability to self-manage and work in a dynamic environment.
Ability to manage conflicting priorities, negotiate solutions and resolve problems with colleagues and customers.
A flexible and responsive approach to meeting work demands.
Policing is an exciting 24/7 business and we all have commitments outside work. We’re invested in supporting people to balance their life with work and we encourage flexible working. We are open to conversations about job shares and part time working. We encourage agile working, giving you the opportunity to manage your own diary and work wherever you give the best service to the public. This may include flexi-time and home working.
We take pride in looking after our people and offer a variety of benefits;
- career progression
- contributory pension scheme (LGPS)
- generous annual leave allowance
- discounts for everyday spend
- on-site gyms and a range of sports clubs
- generous and supportive parental leave
- financial and mental wellbeing guidance and support
- discounted contributory healthcare scheme
For further details please contact either:
[email protected] or
[email protected]
We are only as good as our people. It's important that our officers and staff can be themselves in the workplace and we know that as an organisation we'll grow from the variety of thinking, approach, and the skills that diversity brings; all of which help us to deliver a better policing service. We strive to ensure how we deliver our services, provide information and how we recruit is open and accessible to all.
We have multiple staff support groups who help to improve our understanding of minority issues and ensure they are reflected in our work. We are proud members of Disability Confident, hold Race Equality Matters Trailblazer status, are a signatory of the Race at Work Charter and are aligned with the Armed Forces Covenant and the HeForShe movement.
We are committed to being an anti-racist police service. We promise to challenge injustice, ensure fairness and to uphold anti-racist principles in both our organisation and our communities.
We value the differences that people bring from all backgrounds and communities. Regardless of age, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression, disability, social status, or religious belief, we would love to hear from you.
Following submission of your application you will receive a confirmation email with a copy of your application attached. Occasionally emails from this address can fall into spam/junk folders so please ensure this is checked regularly. You may wish to consider adding [email protected] to your address/contact list to ensure you receive all communications.
This post is being advertised in parallel with Force redeployment processes. Any redeployees who are identified will be given preference. This may result in the post being withdrawn at any point during the recruitment process.
Please note that not all jobs are available for internal candidates across both Forces, the current agreed recruitment principles are;
- vacancies in collaborated units are available to all officers and staff across both Forces
- vacancies in non-collaborated units are only available to officers and staff within the Force with the vacancy unless it is advertised externally
- if the vacancy is advertised externally and an officer or member of staff from the other Force is successful it will result in a transfer of employment
Surrey Police and Sussex Police Special Constables, Volunteers and Agency Staff (excluding self employed workers) covered under the Agency Worker Regulations (AWR) are eligible to apply for internal advertised posts.
