Miguel Roca-Terry

Analytics Engineer

Miguel provides support with the design and delivery of many of Data Orchard's products and services, including data strategy, data asset mapping, facilitating workshops and training. He has specialist skills and experience in data analysis, visualisation, storytelling, and engineering.

Miguel oversees the performance and development of our Data Maturity Assessment products. His responsibilities include customisation, validation, data quality, benchmarking and analysis. He is always looking out for how to automate data flows and processes to make us more efficient.

After a successful first career as a musician and educator, Miguel recently retrained in data journalism and earned a distinction at postgraduate level from Birmingham City University in 2021. He also has an MA in Theology and a BA Hons in Music and English. Before joining Data Orchard he spent four years working as a data journalist in three distinct roles at a commercial analytics firm, the Office for National Statistics, and the BBC.

Miguel is passionate about using data-driven storytelling and visualisation to communicate meaningful insights while handling uncertainty. A big fan of coding, he has extensive professional experience working with data in R and Python, and a strong working knowledge of front end web development using Svelte.

Miguel is based near Cambridge with his family and loves travelling, reading, exercising, martial arts, and walking their dog.