Senior Data & Analytics BI Development Specialist

Job Description

Responsibilities (how we will measure success) 

• As a Power BI developer, you will support the business by developing dashboards using Power BI based on requirements with linked content, drill-down views, nesting parameters, and other features that can be leveraged from the reporting platform Knowledge of other BI / Reporting tools. 

• You will work within the Group Analytics Team to serve functions based globally across The Group.  

• You will be involved in reviewing and challenging requirements, designing end-to-end reporting to enable the tool to be used in a self-service manner as far as possible  

• You’ll work in an agile way to ensure the highest priority areas are focused on, and we are meeting our internal and potentially external client needs  

• You’ll interact with colleagues across the business to ensure requirements are met and we are building the tool in a scalable manner with an eye on the future  

• You'll also assist in the analysis of underlying issues and their root causes, identifying available options for consideration such as new developments  

• You will be a strong communicator able to articulate issues being faced and setting expectations in terms of time to delivery requests  

• You will support the wider group reporting enhancements & requirement deployment in Power BI when not supporting our task management tool, ensuring exposure to a wide range of teams and requirements  

• You will also work in collaboration with the other members of the Group Analytics Team in establishing the value of any changes requested to ensure that they are in support of and/or not in direct conflict with any wider initiatives being run locally or across the group.  

Tasks (what does the role do on a day-to-day basis) 

• Develop Power Bi to ensure we have a minimum viable product in terms of reporting in place  

• Investigate operational issues or problems with reports  

• Support documentation and video recording that supports training of new users on the reporting elements of the tool  

• Understand current data sources & existing reporting data models vis-à-vis current reporting requirements and recommend improvements or adjustments when applicable  

• Present and defend solution design decisions. All design decisions should be based on the overall future roadmap as well as your own design thinking and fundamental principles.  

• Prepare or update existing reporting specifications, users guides, and other reporting related documentations  

• Develop & Publish reporting visualisations using the prescribed tools, and perform Data Quality Review  

• Document requirements and facilitate discussions on priorities from the tool  

• Communicate the benefits of your changes to the user base and monitor usage of the tool and reports to help assess focus areas for future  

• To work to, and apply, the IQ-EQ Group Governance standards  

• Ensure that end-users requests are addressed within Business SLAs  

• Support the delivery of developments for active projects and group objectives 

• Ongoing development of enhancements to existing platforms 

• Support day-to-day requests received from the business