Business Intelligence Engineer

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Overview:

Job Title: Business Intelligence Engineer
Location: London, UK
Shift: Standard day shift, 40 hours per week Monday-Friday
Duration: 8 months contract
Type : Inside IR35
Agency Contract with Benefits (PTO, Pensions, National Insurance contribution)

Who we are:

Apex Systems is a leading Data and Digital Transformation professional services organization focused on providing solutions with real business value. We provide a customer-focused approach to building authentic partnerships with our clients with objective counsel from concept to deployment for a consistent voice through the dynamic IT environment.

As Business Intelligence Engineer, you will be driving force powering the team's data, engineering and analytical needs.
You will be involved in EU-wide strategic projects to drive growth and reduce cost-to-serve working with product managers, data engineers/scientists across many partner teams spanning across Retail/3P, Finance, Tech, Ops and/or your worldwide counterparts.
You will also interact frequently with the EU senior leadership and you will directly shape the future of this segment.

In this fast-paced environment, the individual should display strong flexibility and work ethic, along with deep business and analytical acumen, with experience working with technology and engineering teams. This position requires the ability to set up data pipelines, create visualizations and dive deep large amounts of data, coupled with the desire to influence key strategic decisions with data-driven analysis. Additionally, the ideal candidate should be able to manage multiple projects/workstreams at a time and be able to handle a high level of ambiguity.

Mandatory Skill set : SQL, ETL Pipelines, Quicksight (Data Visualization)

Key job responsibilities :

As BIE for the EE team supporting the full product roadmap, your responsibilities will include:
Engage stakeholders in constructive dialogues to convert problem statements into logic problems that can be solved with data and scripting.
Be integral part of the design process for new initiatives and nascent workstreams. You will apply your business sense to help bring the vision to life.
Design, develop, and implement scalable, automated processes for big data extraction, processing, and analysis.
Support the development on new reports/dashboards to inform business reviews, business case modeling for new initiatives, tracking of inputs/outputs, and more emerging strategy efforts.
Design, build and maintain end-to-end data pipelines to scale and automate our processes.
Build insights-oriented visualization tools (e.g., Quicksight, Tableau, Excel) to enhance existing ways to empower the team and partner teams.
Help develop, upskill and empower team members through trainings and efficient knowledge management.

BASE QUALIFICATIONS
Experience in analyzing and interpreting data with Redshift, Oracle, NoSQL etc.
Experience with data visualization using Tableau, Quicksight, or similar tools
Experience with data modeling, warehousing and building ETL pipelines
Experience in Statistical Analysis packages such as R, SAS and Matlab
Experience using SQL to pull data from a database or data warehouse and scripting experience (Python) to process data for modeling
Experience with SQL
Experience in the data/BI space

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