Cma1826 Senior Data and Technology Insight Adviser - London, United Kingdom - Competition & Markets Authority

Competition & Markets Authority

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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- £55,133 - £62,417- a DDAT allowance of up to £6750 may be applicable
Job grade:

Grade 7
Contract type:
Permanent
Business area:
Data, technology and Analytics Unit
Type of role:
Analytical
Architecture and Data
Digital
Working pattern:
Flexible working, Fulltime, Parttime
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Job summary:

Are you passionate about technology and its impact on society? Would you like to play a vital role in protecting consumers and ensuring fair competition in the digital era?

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is the UK's leading organisation responsible for ensuring that competition works well and that businesses treat their customers fairly.

As a Senior Data & Technology Insights Adviser within the Data, Technology and Analytics (DaTA) unit, you will be at the forefront of investigating and understanding firms' sociotechnical systems.

You will have the opportunity to shape how the regulation of data and technology markets and the activities of digital companies are perceived.

Job description:

Your role will involve working on cases and projects with a data or technology focus, including antitrust cases, merger investigations, and markets work.

You will analyse technical explainers and presentations about a firm's digital systems, draft and ask technical questions to the firm's engineers, and advise colleagues on how technology works.

You will also help build capability to audit algorithmic systems, contribute to the CMA's programme of work to monitor and assess the impacts of firms' sociotechnical systems, and evaluate the extent to which they are compatible with consumer protection and competition law.

In addition, you will be involved in horizon scanning of emerging technologies and trends.

You will help the CMA to anticipate and analyse technology trends set to disrupt markets and to shape proactive work on emerging technologies.

Using your knowledge of technologies and interest in their implications for markets and wider society, you will help the CMA be a thought leader in the space of technology markets and digital competition.

To be successful in this role, you should have a postgraduate degree or equivalent qualification in technology or a sociotechnical area, or work experience in a related field.

You should have significant knowledge of one or more areas of technologies. These might be specific technologies (e.g.

AI / ML, cloud, search, privacy enhancing technologies) or you might have expertise in particular areas (such as web development, app development, cybersecurity, etc.).

Equally important will be an active demonstrable interest in technology and digital markets, and in one or more of the following:
competition policy, consumer protection, or regulation of technology markets.

You should also have experience researching, synthesising, and communicating complex technical information to non-technical audiences, as well as building and leveraging strong relationships both inside and outside your organisation.

Responsibilities:

Deliver significant contributions to cases with a data or technology focus across critical business areas for the CMA, e.g. technology focussed antitrust cases, consumer cases, markets work, the merger of technology firms, or key digital markets work including the establishment of the Digital Markets Unit (DMU). This includes working in a diverse, interdisciplinary team.
Contribute to the delivery of the DTI input to cases with a data or technology focus, or involving research and analysis of algorithms and sociotechnical systems (utilising your knowledge of areas of technology).
Work with internal and external specialists to identify emerging competition and consumer issues in data and technology markets.
Deliver verbal and written communications on these issues to nontechnical colleagues, including writing reports for internal and external publication.
Build and maintain great relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
Utilise pipeline and market monitoring methods such as horizon scanning to identify key trends, risks, and opportunities in technology markets that may impact consumers and competition.
Support, develop and potentially manage Data and Technology Insight Advisers and/or interns.

Person specification:

Post graduate degree, or equivalent qualification OR work experience, related to technology or a sociotechnical area.
Significant knowledge of one or more areas of technologies. These might be specific technologies (e.g. AI / ML, cloud, search, privacy enhancing technologies) or you might have expertise in particular areas (such as web development, app development, cybersecurity, etc.)
Active demonstrable interest in technology and di