Senior Data Analyst

Senior Data Analyst, Dublin

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Date: 19 Mar 2026

Location: Dublin, IE, IE

Company: Allied Irish Bank

Location / Office Policy: Central Park, Dublin 18 / Hybrid (3 days per week)

• Are you an experienced analyst with a strong technical background and hands‑on experience using SQL, Python and Fabric to analyse large‑scale data and deliver analytics‑driven solutions across multiple channels?
• Do you enjoy working collaboratively with stakeholders across the business to deliver data‑driven solutions in a regulated, high‑trust environment?

What is the Role

As a Senior Data Analyst, you will be a key member of the BI Infrastructure team, responsible for helping ensure that enterprise reporting, analytics, and data consumption platforms are built on robust, scalable, and well‑governed data foundations.

Working closely with BI engineers, platform teams, and business stakeholders, the role focuses on analysing data usage, performance, and patterns to drive optimisation, reliability, and value across the BI ecosystem.

The role operates at the intersection of data, platforms, and governance, providing insight and direction that enables the wider organisation to use data confidently and efficiently.

Key Accountabilities

• Analyse and monitor enterprise BI and analytics workloads, including data volumes, query patterns, performance trends, and usage behaviours across reporting platforms.
• Work in partnership with BI Infrastructure engineering teams to identify optimisation opportunities across data pipelines, semantic models, storage layers, and access patterns.
• Provide analytical input to platform‑related decisions, including capacity planning, workload management, cost optimisation, and tooling strategy.
• Develop and maintain dashboards and analytical assets that provide transparency into BI platform health, usage, and performance.
• Support data governance and assurance activities by analysing lineage, data quality metrics, access patterns, and compliance indicators.
• Act as a trusted analytical partner to BI product owners, architects, and delivery teams, translating technical data into clear, actionable insights and recommendations.
• Investigate and diagnose data‑related incidents or anomalies, contributing to root‑cause analysis and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to the development of standards, best practices, and documentation for BI infrastructure analytics and reporting.
• Support the development of junior analysts and contribute to knowledge sharing across the BI Infrastructure team

What You Will Bring

• Demonstrable experience in analytics, ideally within Financial Services or other regulated environments (experience in equivalent domains will also be considered).
• Proven experience designing and delivering end‑to‑end data and analytics solutions using Microsoft Fabric — including data warehouses, lakehouses, pipelines, and governance frameworks — with robust security, compliance, and operational best practices built in
• Strong SQL and Python skills, with experience analysing large and complex datasets.
• Ability to translate technical metrics into actionable insights for both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem‑solving skills, and attention to detail.
• Effective communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Why Work for AIB

We are committed to offering colleagues choice and flexibility in how they work and live. Our hybrid working model enables people to balance time between working from home and their designated office, subject to role requirements, customer needs, and business priorities.

Some of our benefits include:

• Market‑leading pension scheme
• Healthcare scheme
• Variable pay
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Family leave options
• Two volunteer days per year

Please click here for further information about AIB’s PACT – Our Commitment to You.

Key Capabilities

• Technical Leadership
• Data Analysis
• Eliminates Complexity
• Collaborates
• Ensures Accountability

If you are unsure about your suitability based on any aspect of the role, you are encouraged to contact the recruiter for this role, Sarah, at careers@aib.ie for an informal conversation.

AIB is an equal opportunities employer and is proud to be the first bank in Ireland to receive the Investors in Diversity Gold Standard accreditation from the Irish Centre for Diversity. We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees. Should you require any accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at careers@aib.ie.

Disclaimer 
Unsolicited CVs sent to AIB by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. AIB operates a direct sourcing model, and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with recruitment partners.

Application deadline: Thursday 2nd April 2026

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