Manager, Automation & Reporting

Job Description:

Title: Manager, Automation & Reporting - Reporting

Location: London, United Kingdom or Barcelona, Spain

Reports to: Director, Automation & Reporting

The Role

Dow Jones is seeking a Manager for the global Automation & Reporting team to lead a group of skilled Technical Analysts dedicated to data insights. This team is responsible for building robust reporting capabilities, data models, and analytics solutions that help partners analyze high volumes of data across Dow Jones products.

As the Manager, you will oversee the development of full reporting and analytics solutions using SQL, Python, and modern Business Intelligence tools. You will be responsible for vetting team solutions, managing workload distribution, and mentoring analysts as they translate complex business requirements into high-impact visual deliverables and reports.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Development: Manage and mentor a global team of Technical Analysts, fostering their professional growth and technical skills. Organize the development backlog, setting clear priorities and determining resource requirements.

Technical Oversight & Solution Design: Propose and vet reporting solutions for optimal efficacy, ensuring they meet the high standards required for data processing and accuracy. Improve development standards, ensuring the team writes clean, readable code and highly optimized SQL queries.

Dashboard & ETL Delivery: Oversee ETL development and the creation of dynamic visualization dashboards that support critical business processes and decision-making.

Stakeholder & Project Management: Manage a portfolio of reporting solutions, communicating progress and blockers effectively to project sponsors and senior leadership. Balance tactical goals with a strategic focus, operating as a hands-on contributor when necessary to ensure project delivery.

Qualifications

Essential Experience: 5+ years of dedicated experience in data analytics and reporting, with deep, hands-on proficiency in SQL and Python for data extraction, manipulation, and advanced analysis.

Modern Cloud Data Warehousing: Strong practical experience working with modern cloud data warehouses, specifically GCP BigQuery and/or AWS Glue and Athena, to query and structure high volumes of data efficiently.

Cloud Ecosystems & ETL/ELT: Experience designing or managing data processing workflows leveraging cloud services such as AWS (S3, Athena, Glue) and GCP (Cloud Storage). Familiarity with modern data transformation and orchestration tools (e.g., dbt, Apache Airflow) is highly preferred.

Business Intelligence & Visualization: Proven expertise in translating complex datasets into actionable insights using enterprise BI platforms (e.g., Looker, Tableau, Power BI).

Delivery & Communication: Proven track record of delivering data projects through Agile practices. Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to bridge the gap between technical analysts and non-technical business stakeholders.

Modern Tooling: Familiarity with version control systems (Git) and the adoption of AI-assisted development tools (e.g., Copilot, Claude) to enhance team productivity.

Benefits

Comprehensive Insurance Plans

Pension Plan

Meal Vouchers

Paid Time off

Employee Referral Program

Fitness Reimbursement Program

Reasonable Accommodation

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Business Area: Dow Jones - Data & AI

Job Category: Data Analytics/Warehousing & Business Intelligence

Union Status:

Non-Union / A clear and likely internal candidate

Base Pay Range: €55,000 - €70,000

We’re committed to offering competitive and flexible compensation to attract top talent. This pay range reflects our good faith estimate for the role and may vary based on a candidate’s experience, skills, location, and other relevant factors.

For bonus-eligible roles, targets are determined based on multiple considerations, including market benchmarks and individual contributions.

For benefits-eligible roles, we offer a comprehensive and competitive benefits package covering health, retirement, wellbeing, and more, along with optional benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees.

Since 1882, Dow Jones has been finding new ways to bring information to the world’s top business entities. Beginning as a niche news agency in an obscure Wall Street basement, Dow Jones has grown to be a worldwide news and information powerhouse, with prestigious brands including The Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones Newswires, Factiva, Barron’s, MarketWatch and Financial News.

This longevity and success is due to a relentless pursuit of accuracy, depth and innovation, enhanced by the wisdom of past experience and a solid grasp on the future ahead. More than its individual brands, Dow Jones is a modern gateway to intelligence, with innovative technology, advanced data feeds, integrated solutions, expert research, award-winning journalism and customizable apps and delivery systems to bring the information that matters most to customers, when and where they need it, every day.

Req ID: 53735