Business Intelligence Developer - Temporary (to 2/7/2027) - Internal only

Business Intelligence Developer - Temporary (to 2/7/2027) - Internal only

Salary Grade F Contract type Temporary: Fixed Term Contract or Secondment Hours Full Time Location Poole, Dorset, England Location description Hybrid between home and Poole Closing Date 24-07-2025 Reference 19943 Documents (please view all documents)
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Internal vacancy

The RNLI actively promotes continuous development within the organisation and is only seeking applications from current RNLI employees and volunteers at this time. If this position is not filled internally it may be re-advertised openly. #LI-DNI

About Us 

Our purpose is simple - to save lives at sea. We provide a 24-hour lifeboat search and rescue service, seasonal lifeguards, and water safety education and initiatives. Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards need a dedicated, professional and talented team behind them, and that is where you come in. This is your chance to join that team and help save lives every day. 

We’re looking for a Business Intelligence Developer to join our Data Product Development team until 2nd July 2027 supporting our digital transformation projects by developing a new suite of reporting solutions based on a transition to a new ERP system. The Data Product Development team supports the RNLI’s ambitions to develop a vibrant data culture where evidence is at the heart of the decision-making process.

Your Role 

As a Business Intelligence Developer, you will be tasked with the following: 

Engaging with business SME’s to understand their reporting needs, eliciting requirements and defining the scope and phasing of product delivery 
Collaborating with other Data teams to ensure we have the clean, complete and modelled data we need for great reporting 
Interpreting user’s needs and developing high quality BI solutions with great UI for a wide range of business areas 
Selling the new world of reporting solutions to customers and ensuring they are trained to get the most from our data and technological capabilities 

About You 

To be considered as the Business Intelligence Developer you will need: 

To have strong demonstrable people engagement skills and experience working closely with business representatives to understand and deliver their requirements. 
A high degree of data literacy to ensure data is captured and modelled in the best way to produce the analysis and reporting the organisation requires. 
Technical expertise regarding visualization, storytelling, and data modelling. 
Technical understanding of modelling and designing efficient dimensional data models for reporting. 
Strong UI and UX competencies and enthusiastic about best practice data visualisation. 
Strong knowledge and experience working with the Microsoft BI stack including Power BI, Paginated Reports and Databricks. 
Experienced in the use of source control and task management tools. 
Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle. 
An appreciation of Continuous Improvement methodologies and principles. 
An interest in improving how the organisation views and interacts with its data to make informed decisions 
Appreciation of ‘doing the right thing’. 

If you have strong interest in data modelling and data presentation and want to help us develop a vibrant data culture to support our organisation’s aim to reduce drowning, this could be the role for you. Please apply via the button shown.