Lead Business Intelligence Developer

Salary: Full time starting salary is normally in the range £47,389 to £56,535 with potential progression once in post to £63,606

Fixed Term contract up to June 2028.

Role Summary

The University has a requirement for a Lead Business Intelligence (BI) Developer who has significant skills and experience in Cloud data warehousing and systems analysis/design.

We are looking for a Lead Business Intelligence (BI) Developer with extensive experience of Cloud based platforms. The primary focus of this role will be the development of a Snowflake data warehouse environment and will include using multiple ETL tools and Tableau/Power BI for reporting and data visualisations.

As the ideal candidate you will be adept at working with large data sets to develop advanced, scalable Data Warehouse solutions from end-to-end. The University is still at the early stages of building a Snowflake Cloud based Data Warehouse hosted on MS Azure. The basic architecture has been established, and various system components talk to each other but there is still a lot to do and this will be a huge opportunity for the right person to take ownership of the Data Platform and take it to the next level. You will be a hands-on Data Engineer who thrives on working in a varied and challenging environment and will use your technical knowledge to advice on how they are ingesting data, what they are ingesting and how they are using insights to drive key business decision making. You must have strong experience using a variety of data architecture/data modelling techniques. You must also have a proven ability to design, develop and implement advanced data warehousing solutions and be comfortable working with a wide range of stakeholders and functional teams to understand business needs.

Person Specification

Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification plus substantial work experience in a relevant technical/scientific and/or management/supervisory role in a specialist area. A higher degree may also be held. Where no equivalent qualification is held a proven track record of extensive and substantial work experience in a series of progressively more demanding and relevant roles will be required.

• Proven technical specialist knowledge and understanding in a relevant technical area (specialists will require advanced technical expertise).
• Snowflake certified with relevant hands on experience.
• ETL tools – how to build data pipelines using cloud ETL Tools (Azure Data Factory an advantage) with advanced data ingestion techniques.
• Tableau/ Power BI experience of integration with a cloud warehouse. 

Informal enquiries to Julian Kobylarz, email - j.kobylarz@bham.ac.uk

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