Senior Business Intelligence Developer

Gravitas Recruitment Group (Global) Ltd
Manchester
5 days ago
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£55,000 – £65,000 + Bonus | Manchester or Fareham (Hybrid after probation)


Gravitas is supporting a growing financial services organisation in the search for a Senior BI Developer to take full ownership of their business intelligence estate.


This is a crucial role for an experienced BI professional who can translate complex data into meaningful insights, develop high‑quality Power BI assets, and act as the bridge between a modern Databricks‑based data platform and business stakeholders.


If you’re passionate about designing clean, scalable BI solutions that genuinely influence decision-making—and you’re confident working with senior stakeholders in a regulated environment—this is an excellent opportunity to elevate your impact.


What You’ll Be Doing

  • Own, develop, and maintain the organisation’s Power BI estate, including dashboards, semantic models, paginated reports, and Power BI Service administration.
  • Build robust semantic models that connect Power BI directly to Databricks lakehouses and SQL Server.
  • Create SSRS and paginated reports to support operational, financial, and regulatory reporting needs.
  • Work closely with the data engineering team to ensure BI outputs align with upstream pipelines and business logic.
  • Partner with stakeholders across Operations, Finance, Compliance, and Portfolio Management to translate requirements into clear, accurate, insightful reporting.
  • Promote Power BI self‑service across the business, providing training and guidance to users.
  • Contribute to data governance efforts, including data lineage, documentation, and data dictionary maintenance.
  • Support ad hoc analysis and provide input into board reporting packs.
  • Ensure reporting outputs meet FCA regulatory requirements and internal governance standards.

What You Bring
Core Experience

  • 5+ years’ experience in BI development with a strong, demonstrable Power BI portfolio.
  • Expert‑level Power BI capability: data modelling, DAX, paginated reports, workspace and Service administration.
  • Strong SQL skills and experience working with SQL Server and/or Azure Synapse.
  • Ability to design and optimise semantic models connected to Databricks.
  • Experience building SSRS or equivalent formatted reports.
  • Proven confidence presenting insights to senior, non‑technical stakeholders.

Nice to Have

  • Experience with Azure Synapse Analytics or Azure Data Factory.
  • Familiarity with Databricks notebooks, and basic Python or PySpark exposure.
  • Experience within financial services or another regulated industry.
  • Understanding of data governance, data quality, and lineage frameworks.

Your Working Style
Technical Excellence

  • Holds high standards in report quality, DAX performance, and data model design.
  • Maintains a clean, organised, and well‑documented Power BI environment.
  • Keeps up‑to‑date with the evolving Microsoft BI ecosystem.
  • Understands business context and stakeholder needs.
  • Communicates insights clearly and designs reporting that drives action.
  • Works effectively with data engineers, analysts, and business teams.
  • Skilled at gathering and refining requirements and managing expectations.

Drive & Initiative

  • Proactively identifies opportunities to improve BI outputs and coverage.
  • Takes full ownership of deliverables, ensuring they are delivered to a high standard.

What’s on Offer

  • Discretionary annual bonus
  • 25–30 days holiday (based on tenure) + birthday day off
  • Pension scheme with up to 5% matched contributions
  • Manchester or Fareham office location
  • Office‑based during probation, then hybrid working


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