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Senior Business Intelligence Consultant

Dufrain
Edinburgh
3 days ago
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Overview

Recruiting for Data & Technology Professionals across the UK. We are Dufrain, a pure-play data consultancy specialising in helping businesses unlock the true value of their data through market-leading data solutions and services, including developing strategies for AI readiness, improving data literacy and culture, enhancing real-time reporting, and managing data from mergers and acquisitions. At Dufrain, our BI Capability delivers advanced reporting solutions in Tableau and Power BI, alongside strategic guidance and governance support across highly regulated industries such as financial services and banking.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE:

As a Specialist BI Consultant, you’ll lead end-to-end BI solution delivery on complex engagements, ensuring both technical excellence and tangible business value, and play a pivotal role in shaping BI strategy and delivering enterprise-grade Tableau reporting solutions for clients. This is an exciting opportunity for a Consultant with excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills who thrives on strategic impact, stakeholder engagement and driving positive outcomes with best practice BI.

  • Experience delivering a range of Business Intelligence solutions with tangible business benefits, ideally within a consulting environment.
  • Ability to facilitate requirements workshops and design sessions, engaging both technical and non-technical stakeholders to co-create effective solutions.
  • Strong expertise in the design, implementation, and optimisation of Tableau solutions.
  • Ability to assess and rationalise existing reporting estates, consolidating legacy dashboards and migrating to strategic, governed target-state architectures.
  • Familiarity with enterprise Tableau governance, including report sign-off cycles, access management, and support for regulated data products.
  • Ability to mentor and lead teams.
  • Solid understanding of relational databases, SQL, and data modelling concepts within a BI environment.
  • Proven experience shaping and implementing Tableau Governance, Self-Service, and Adoption strategies, including frameworks across people, process, and technology.
  • Experience delivering and facilitating client-facing training across all levels—from introductory sessions for report Consumers to advanced workshops for Developers and Analysts.
  • Passion for BI community engagement, with interest in speaking at industry events, contributing to thought leadership, and maintaining an active presence on social media.
  • Domain experience within Finance, Insurance, or Risk sectors.
  • Ability to deliver curated, performance-optimised gold-layer data models using technologies such as Lakehouse, AWS, Microsoft Fabric, Databricks, and Snowflake.
  • Hands-on experience with other BI tools such as Power BI, QuickSight, and Databricks.
  • Working knowledge of publishing certified reports or data products into governed marketplaces.

What we offer you

You can expect guaranteed investment in your personal development. We have a working culture that rewards high performance and nurtures talent, while providing exciting opportunities and challenges to generate positive change for our clients.

What to do next

If you’re passionate about data, and you’re looking to join a leading data and analytics company based in the UK, you could find your dream role at Dufrain. Apply to join us in our quest to get busy living and make a difference.

Seniority level
  • Mid-Senior level
Employment type
  • Full-time
Job function
  • Information Technology and Consulting
Industries
  • IT Services and IT Consulting

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