The Data & Analytics standard certifies people who can take a question from a stakeholder, get to a defensible answer, and communicate it well enough to change what happens next. Pipeline hygiene and honest uncertainty are both assessed.
Each area is evidenced from your own work. Assessors look for what you decided and why, not for a rehearsed answer.
The same six-level framework, expressed in the terms of this discipline. Experienced applicants can enter directly at a higher level through the portfolio route.
| Level | Post-nominal | What it certifies | Professional Experience | Annual CPD |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1BIPS Foundation | BIPS-F | Understands data types, basic statistics and how analysis goes wrong. | 0–1 yr | 10 h |
| 2BIPS Practitioner | BIPS-P | Delivers analysis on defined questions with a senior reviewer on the method. | 1–3 yrs | 15 h |
| 3BIPS Professional | BIPS-Pro | Owns an analytical domain and is accountable for what decisions rest on it. | 3–6 yrs | 20 h |
| 4BIPS Specialist | BIPS-S | Leads a specialism — engineering, experimentation, modelling — with reviewed evidence. | 6–10 yrs | 25 h |
| 5BIPS Expert | BIPS-E | Sets data strategy and is trusted on evidence at executive level. | 10+ yrs | 30 h |
| 6BIPS Fellow | FBIPS | Advances the practice through standards, teaching or sustained public contribution. | By election | 30 h |
You submit real work against the six capability areas.
An assessor checks provenance and your role in it.
A recorded conversation about decisions and trade-offs.
Your credential is issued and listed publicly.
Answers the questions the business is actually asking.
Builds the models and pipelines everyone else trusts.
Owns what the organisation believes about itself.
Holds the line on privacy, quality and lineage.
Why every professional now needs a working grasp of data.
Data readiness is becoming the real bottleneck.
Assessors now look for honest confidence intervals.
The Artificial Intelligence standard recognises people who can take a model from problem framing to production and stay accountable for what it does once it is there.
The Business Analysis standard recognises people who can find the real problem behind a request and carry a clear evidence trail from need to result.
The Sustainability & ESG standard certifies people who can produce disclosure that holds up, and drive the operational change that makes it true.