Senior R/r Shiny Consultant Contractor

Overview:
With over 1400 people across 9 offices, we are proud to be a leading independent UK consultancy. We act as a trusted partner for a wide range of clients in both the private and public sectors - this includes almost 25% of FTSE 100 and almost 10% of FTSE 350 companies. 89 are partners, each delivering on our values and our promise, ensuring the highest levels of trust, integrity, and quality.

We are free from any external stakeholders, allowing us to take a long-term view with all our clients and giving us the freedom to bring fresh ideas to the table, unobstructed. We call this free thinking. It is in our DNA. Our primary focus continues to be providing the personal, quality, tailored approach that has driven our success and has led to our high level of client retention. We seek to build stable and long-term partnerships with clients, supported by our low staff turnover thanks to our ongoing investment in our experts and our unique culture. We aim to continue our growth by recruiting talented and committed individuals that have the desire to learn and develop. We strive to work with people who share our values and can bring special skills - enhancing the service that we provide to our clients.

**We are seeking Senior R Shiny Consultants and R Shiny Consultants on a 6 - 8 week contract basis, possibly longer. We also have a longer-term/permanent requirement.**

**What kind of work do we do?**

We have worked with a wide variety of businesses, each with its own challenges, and the projects we have undertaken have been diverse. All have quickly and cost effectively delivered meaningful, previously unknown, insights from which tangible actions have been taken without large infrastructure builds or costs.
- Most of our work currently fall into one of these categories:_
- Consulting projects for clients to create positive business outcomes by making sense of diverse, incomplete, and ambiguous data
- Transforming data science capabilities for clients, including creating best-practice processes, skills-transfer to teams, tools and infrastructure, cloud migration, and more
- Ongoing services for clients to support or run part of their data science capabilities
- Internal tools to make our firm more productive, profitable and a better place to work

Here’s some more research info on the work we do for your perusal:

- You may enjoy working with us if:_
- You have a consulting mindset and enjoy working on a wide variety of projects
- You enjoy helping leaders and their organisations make the right change decisions, and see data, analytics, and visualisations as your key tools to help bring this about
- You are comfortable with uncertainty and speed, and are excited to solve new problems often with incomplete and ambiguous data
- You thrive in a collegiate business environment; enjoy sharing, learning and honest conversations, and building your own networks
- You share our values: Principled - Quality - Partnership - Respect

**Responsibilities**:
We are seeking a Senior R/R Shiny Consultant to help us build a new data entry & workflow product (currently under NDA) for one of our prestigious end clients.

With the high-level requirements complete, you’ll be joining the project at the detailed requirements stage, which will be a 2-week on-site workshop in Buckinghamshire. After this is complete, you will be free to deliver on these requirements from home or any of our office locations.

Qualifications:
**_ Essential:_**
- Able to demonstrate the ability to learn new technologies quickly and put them to use to deliver projects
- Able to demonstrate successful delivery of business value enabled by data projects
- Able to demonstrate practical numeracy, ideally through projects delivered or possibly through a practical science degree or equivalent

**_
Desirable:_**
- Able to demonstrate good understand of and ability to design and deliver great user interfaces and experiences.
- R packages such as markdown, flexdashboard, plotly, tidymodels and/or crosstalk
- Ideally a software engineering background
- Exposure to Linux
- Good understanding of JavaScript, CSS and HTML, especially as used with D3
- Basic Azure administration and scripting to specify, deploy and maintain infrastructure for analytical environments

What's in it for you?:
**Core & Flexible Benefits**:

- Competitive discretionary annual bonus
- Core benefits paid for by BW including life assurance, group income protection, private medical cover and 25 days holiday per year with holiday trading
- A generous pension scheme where we contribute 8% of your salary from day one of your employment
- Employee Assistance Programme to support you and your family through any concerns or challenges you may experience
- A comprehensive range of voluntary benefits to suit your life stage and lifestyle including a tech scheme, cycle to work scheme, dental cover, healthcare cash plan, health assessments, critical illness cover, extension of private medical cov