Senior BI Developer - FS Client with Data Driven Culture - REF 594

Interface Recruitment UK
Leeds
6 days ago
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Vacancy Title:Business Intelligence Developer

Salary From:£30000

Salary To:£45000

Department:Finance

A rapidly expanding business that requires the establishing of a BI function to ensure that it drives consistency in reporting and data definitions across the Group as it expands, and ensure that the business is supplied with innovative, relevant and actionable reporting to support a data-driven decision making culture throughout the Group. The Senior BI Developer will support the BI Team in providing and managing high quality, timely and accurate reporting and analysis across all business functions to enable measured decision making, and support the day to day operations for continued growth of the business.

You’ll be responsible for:

  1. Day-to-day people management of BI Developers and Analysts
  2. Coaching and monitoring of developers against setting of individual objectives and goals
  3. Manage and deliver BI in line with BI Programme Manager roadmap
  4. Present technical BI solutions to non-technical stakeholders
  5. Take ownership and responsibility of the technical design, architecture and BI solution, keeping complete and end to end technical BI delivery goals in focus
  6. Provide assistance to the technical team; be able to provide technical solutions and answers to difficult and complicated business issues.
  7. ETL scripting, data modelling and report/dashboard delivery within BI tool
  8. Develop technical processes and strategy for business demands managed efficiently and effectively, giving both ad-hoc and strategic considerations to the solutions.
  9. Develop BI tool architecture including data presentation, data modelling, data blending, metadata and semantic layer development and governance
  10. Support significant data and BI tool migration projects
  11. Ensure BI reporting is governed to the highest degree in line with developed Business Glossary and Business Semantic Layer
  12. Support, promote & manage Data Warehouse roadmap delivery through detailed requirements provision and building strong relationships with data architects across the business
  13. Ensuring the hardware and software are up to date and fit for purpose for BI tool and user demands

You’ll need to evidence the following qualifications, skills and experience:

  1. Proven experience/knowledge on Microsoft stack SSIS and SSRS and SQL server
  2. Experience of producing reporting and BI through Qlikview or similar enterprise BI tools
  3. Proven experience/knowledge of building data warehouses for successful and efficient delivery of reports, KPIs and dashboards
  4. Ability to review the existing code and set up best coding practices and standards across all BI development
  5. Enhancing query and report performance
  6. Strong knowledge of relational & dimensional modelling with Kimball design
  7. Preparing technical artefacts such as (but not limited to) Data Mapping, Data Lineage, Metadata, Logical and Physical Data Models for complex data structures
  8. Good understanding of end-to-end BI development life cycle
  9. Effective communicator with good organisational, prioritising and influencing skills
  10. Advanced Microsoft office skills (Excel, Power Point, etc)
  11. People management, leadership, provoking enthusiasm and efficiency within team
  12. Promoting process adherence and compliance
  13. Able to prioritise multiple tasks and work under pressure for senior business people
  14. Ability to adapt & change reporting requirements to suit business needs
  15. Ability to work in a fast paced environment and manage / prioritise workload

The Benefits:

  1. Competitive salary with annual bonus
  2. Contributory pension
  3. 3% flexible benefits - including cycle to work, critical illness, dental insurance, childcare vouchers, travel insurance, dining club, retail discounts and the option to buy up to one week’s worth of holiday subject to start date
  4. Free shuttle bus from Leeds City Centre
  5. Subsidised on-site restaurant
  6. Free on-site gym
  7. Excellent coaching and training

Please apply quickly as the roles will go fast.

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