Senior Business Intelligence Developer

Birmingham
6 months ago
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Salary: c.£50,000-£55,000 - Dependent on Experience
Location: Birmingham - Hybrid Working - (3 Days a week in the office contractually, in practice less)
Job Reference: J12976

An amazing opportunity has arisen for a Senior Business Intelligence Developer to join a progressive organisation who are expanding their data capabilities. Collaborating with the data stakeholders the role focuses on developing and implementing new data, analytics and business intelligence products throughout the business.
You will be an expert in data modelling and data visualisation, demonstrating innovative new approaches to data visualisation dashboards, ensuring products are intuitive, scalable and available for mobile technologies as well as normal web delivery.

Main Duties and Responsibilities

·Contribute towards the delivery business strategy, supporting data projects through their life cycle by undertaking detailed business requirements, aligning to Agile methodology for design, development, testing and release
·Working with the chosen data and analytics solution partners, lead the implementation and development of Microsoft Power BI reporting, developing and maintaining
·System architecture and ensuring that the system set-up reflects data and reporting needs
·Utilise the data warehouse to generate data solutions to provide insights and support decision making through self-service capabilities
·Ensure that appropriate access control is in place for managing access to data and the data solutions developed
·Identify ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality
·Deliver new data solutions, along with any associated system and process changes as and when required, to a high standard and within given deadlines
·Pro-actively seek to deploy efficient data development through a build once, use- many' approach
·Contribute to the policies on data governance and education of others in good data governance practice
·Ensure all reporting developed complies with legal and statutory requirements applicable, including data protection (UK-GDPR / Data Protection) and corporate governance.
·Train and mentor Junior BI Developers

Technical Experience

·An honours degree or equivalent.
·Data warehouse design and development experience (Kimball Methodology, building fact and dimension tables)
·Substantial relevant experience in working with data visualisation software Power BI.
·Experience of other visualisation tools such as Tableau and Qlik considered
·Substantial experience with Azure framework to include Azure Data Factory and Azure SQL Server.
·Experience of Agile methodologies
·Experience of project planning through Dev-Ops is advantageous
·Analytical ability and attention to detail and accuracy.

Additional Requirements:

·Candidates must have an existing and future right to live and work in the UK.

If you are looking for a new challenge working in a collaborative, and supportive environment where you're empowered to be creative and drive performance… then this could be your next role. Apply today!

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