Senior BI Developer

Key Responsibilities:

• Data Integration & Management:

  Design, develop, and maintain ETL pipelines to process and transform raw data into usable formats including dashboards, reports, and data models.

Own and enhance BI semantic models and architecture to support scalable analytics                   across the organisation.

• Mentorship:

  Provide mentorship to BI developers, ensuring best practices in development and data governance.

• Reporting & Dashboards:

  Lead the development and maintenance of advanced, interactive dashboards, reports, and data visualisations to deliver insights to business users.

• Collaboration & Stakeholder Management:

  Work closely with cross-functional teams, including IT, business analysts, and department heads, to understand business requirements and translate them into actionable data solutions.

• Data Governance & Best Practices:

  Ensure data integrity, security, and compliance across all BI processes and reporting platforms

Implement and follow BI development lifecycle practices including version control (repos), work item management, build/release pipelines, and deployment processes.

• Performance Optimisation:

  Ensure optimal performance, scalability, and reliability of BI systems, proactively identifying and addressing issues or bottlenecks.

• Training:

  Provide training for team members to enhance their technical skills.

• Continuous Improvement:

  Evaluate new BI technologies, tools, and techniques, recommending improvements and innovations to enhance the BI capabilities of the organisation.

• Documentation & Best Practices:

  Establish clear and comprehensive documentation for all BI solutions, development processes, and data models to ensure maintainability and consistency.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in BI development, with at least 2+ years in a senior technical role.
• Extensive experience with BI tools such as Power BI, Tableau, Qlik, SSRS or similar platforms.
• Experience with cloud-based BI platforms (e.g., Azure, AWS, Google Cloud).
• Strong knowledge of TSQL for data extraction, manipulation, and complex queries, DAX, Power Query.
• Experience with advanced data integration and ETL processes.
• Expertise in data modelling, database design, and performance optimisation.
• Solid understanding of data warehousing concepts and best practices.
• Proven experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to drive insights from large, complex datasets.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to interact with both technical and business stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to mentor and inspire team members to achieve excellence in BI development and delivery.

Desirable

Familiarity with programming languages such as Python or R for data manipulation.

Knowledge of Big Data technologies such as Hadoop or Spark.

BI tool certifications (e.g., Power BI, Tableau) are a plus.

Role & responsibilities

Preferred candidate profile