Analyst Developer

• Work with colleagues in the Digital and Insights Returns system team to develop and maintain systems used to manage preparation of statutory returns to the Higher Education Statistics Agency. • Be involved in the design, build, test, and implementation phases of the returns process in accordance with technical and quality standards. • Support the University's recruitment and student success strategy through continuous innovation in analytics.

• Hold an undergraduate degree with strong engineering, mathematics, or computing elements or have equivalent professional experience. • Have recent, demonstrable experience of developing in T-SQL and Python. • Have experience of relational database connectivity such as Oracle and SQL Server and transaction processing. • Have familiarity with rapid prototyping and more structured systems development techniques. • Be proficient with Microsoft Office tools. • Be a self-starter able to rapidly transfer development skills across platforms and programming languages. • Have aptitude for careful analysis and systems development, striving for the highest level of product quality. • Work to high personal standards of accuracy, own issues, and see them through to resolution. • Be able to work under pressure to manage competing demands for time and to meet demanding deadlines. • Be able to communicate appropriately with peers, business colleagues, internal and external stakeholders, and managers. • Be committed to ongoing learning and personal development.

• Have programming training or certificate in a high-level language. • Have knowledge of cloud-based technologies such as Azure Fabric. • Have knowledge of Higher Education systems and data. • Have knowledge of statutory returns in the Higher Education sector. • Have knowledge of source control and development management systems such as Git and Azure DevOps. • Have knowledge or experience of writing PowerShell scripts or another modern scripting language.

• Contribute to concepts, specifications, and designs for the HESA returns process. • Design, build, and test software components in accordance with the HESA returns process specifications, designs, and standards using a variety of programming languages and tools. • Provide technical expertise within a small development team. • Perform unit, integration, system, and operational testing. • Champion common approaches and reusable code. • Apply appropriate project management and systems development methodologies. • Engage with HESA and with other HE providers in the HESA process to share approaches. • Engage with the other university projects and product owners. • Provide support for existing systems used to create statutory returns and ensure they are kept in step with changes to external data requirements. • Undertake other duties as required within the Returns System team and other Digital and Insight teams.

• Receive £38,784 to £46,049 salary pro-rata for part-time hours of 22 hours per week. • Work in a hybrid pattern from home and the Milton Keynes office with expected attendance on average once per month. • Join the UK's largest university and a world leader in flexible part-time education. • Benefit from a range of benefits recognising and rewarding great work. • Access policies and flexible working that contribute towards a great work-life balance. • Work part-time on a permanent contract.

The Open University is the UK's largest university and a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a mission to widen access to higher education with research excellence, transforming lives through education. The Digital and Insights Returns system team supports and develops the systems required to create the student and staff statutory returns to HESA and other UK funding bodies.