The Data Analyst role involves supporting stakeholders by turning data into actionable insights through metrics, reports, and dashboards, requiring basic SQL and BI tool utilization.
About Us
Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.
Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies — including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.
Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.
Role Summary
The Data Analyst is an early-career opportunity to join our collaborative, cross-functional Advanced Analytics Team. Reporting to the Director, Advanced Analytics, you will support internal stakeholders by turning data into clear, actionable insights through well-defined metrics, reports, and dashboards. You will work with partners across the business to understand questions, source and validate data, and communicate findings in a way that supports decision-making. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys data storytelling, continuous improvement, and building reliable reporting that leaders can trust.
What Will You Do
- Data analysis & reporting
- Support data discovery and profiling to validate sources and confirm reporting requirements
- Write basic SQL and use tools such as Power BI to build and maintain simple reports and dashboards
- Identify trends, anomalies, and drivers in datasets, and present findings clearly to non-technical audiences
- Help monitor and improve data quality in reporting outputs (e.g., completeness, consistency, and timeliness)
- Insights, metrics & stakeholder partnership
- Partner with stakeholders to translate questions into clear analytical requirements and reporting outputs
- Participate in workshops and interviews to understand user needs and prioritise reporting opportunities
- Analyse current reporting and processes to identify gaps, pain points, and improvement opportunities
- Work with analytics engineers and data owners to validate definitions, align on source-of-truth tables, and confirm outputs
- Data validation & quality
- Validate report outputs and data transformations using basic test queries, reconciliations, and spot checks
- Support stakeholder review of dashboards and reports
- Help investigate data and reporting issues (e.g., refresh failures, mismatched totals, or definition questions) and escalate with clear detail
- Training & Documentation
- Create and maintain user documentation (e.g., report definitions, runbooks, and quick guides)
What You Will Bring
- Foundational understanding of relational databases and the ability to write basic SQL queries
- Ability to build clear charts and dashboards using a BI tool (e.g., Power BI or Tableau)
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with attention to detail
- Ability to clarify analytical questions and document metric definitions and assumptions
- A proactive, learning mindset and comfort working across teams
- Basic understanding of business intelligence concepts (e.g., databases, data warehouses, and reporting tools)
- Awareness of data governance and data quality concepts (e.g., master data, reference data) and how they influence reporting
- Awareness of data modelling concepts and the ability to represent data using simple, standard techniques (e.g., entity-relationship diagrams)
- Exposure to data warehouse concepts and basic ETL/ELT patterns
- Exposure to tools like JIRA, Confluence, or similar project tracking tools
- Basic understanding of testing and release practices for analytics/reporting changes
- Exposure to process modelling tools or techniques (e.g., BPMN, flowcharts)
- Exposure to data lake and data warehouse technologies such as Snowflake
- Experience with Power BI and/or Tableau
- Experience supporting reporting delivery (e.g., defining metrics, validating data, and publishing reports)
Essential
Desirable
What You’ll Learn
- How to translate business questions into well-defined metrics, requirements, and analytical approaches
- How to build repeatable reports and dashboards, including validation and documentation standards
- How data quality, governance, and modelling impact trustworthy reporting and AI-ready data products
- How to collaborate effectively with engineers, product owners, and stakeholders in an enterprise environment
Key Competencies
- Action-Oriented – Takes initiative and displays a can-do attitude
- Customer Focus – Builds strong relationships with internal stakeholders
- Communicates Effectively – Adjusts style for technical and non-technical audiences
- Plans and Aligns – Prioritizes tasks to meet project timelines and quality standards
- Quality-Driven – Strives for accuracy in documentation, testing, and reporting
- Team-Oriented – Works collaboratively while managing individual responsibilities
Ready to Join Us?
At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. Research shows that candidates sometimes hesitate to apply if they don't check every box in a job description. We challenge that notion. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don't let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.
What's Great About Sophos?
· Sophos operates a remote-first working model, making remote work the primary option for most employees. However, some roles may necessitate a hybrid approach. While we are a remote first organization, applicants must have legal authorization to work in the jurisdiction where the position is posted, without requiring employer sponsorship.
· Our people – we innovate and create, all of which are accompanied by a great sense of fun and team spirit
· Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks that build community and provide education and advocacy
· Annual charity and fundraising initiatives and volunteer days for employees to support local communities
· Global employee sustainability initiatives to reduce our environmental footprint
· Global fitness and trivia competitions to keep our bodies and minds sharp
· Global wellbeing days for employees to relax and recharge
· Monthly wellbeing webinars and training to support employee health and wellbeing
Our Commitment To You
We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation. We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.
Data Protection
If you choose to explore an opportunity, and subsequently share your CV or other personal details with Sophos, these details will be held by Sophos for 12 months in accordance with our Privacy Policy and used by our recruitment team to contact you regarding this or other relevant opportunities at Sophos. If you would like Sophos to delete or update your details at any time, please follow the steps set out in the Privacy Policy describing your individual rights. For more information on Sophos’ data protection practices, please consult our Privacy Policy Cybersecurity as a Service Delivered | Sophos
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