BI Engineer (Azure, Python, SQL)

Posted 23 October 2024
Salary £45000 - £48000 per annum
LocationWest Midlands
Job type Permanent
Discipline DevelopmentData
ReferenceMT-253
Contact NameMatt Trought

Job description

BI Engineer (Azure, Python, SQL)

Location: Birmingham (4 days a week on-site)
Salary: £45k - £48k


Opportunity

A fantastic opportunity has come up to work for a genuine market leader in an exciting and innovative industry. They plan to build a newly created BI and Data Engineering division to work alongside other Data and Analytics teams across the group.

For this role, they need someone to serve as a central resource from within their Strategy and Analytics department, also working with, but not exclusive to, the Commercial, Finance, and Operational business functions, to help advance the group’s data infrastructure and support in transforming data into actionable insights and triggered events for Business Intelligence (BI) and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system purposes.

This role will be instrumental in leveraging data to ensure a fully integrated approach to data-driven decision-making and also business strategy.

Day-to-day tasks

  • Work across the group and with the division data partners to leverage all available data, building out the groups database, reporting and insights capabilities to enable data-led decision making.
  • Design, develop and maintain scalable, user-friendly and automated systems, data solutions and reporting that will support our analytical and business needs.
  • Support the insight team with visualisations, reporting and stakeholder engagement through monthly/quarterly/annual departmental reviews
  • Review new and existing technical solutions to address business requirements including evaluation of platforms, technical solutions, data design approach and code reviews.
  • Orchestrate UAT testing and launch plans, meeting all stakeholder expectations and in line with best practices.
  • Use data science/statistical modelling tools in collaboration with the analyst team and departmental stakeholders to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) functions and analytics.
  • Any other reasonable duties and responsibilities which your line manager or another senior manager at the group asks you to perform.
  • Demonstrate commitment to Safeguarding by adhering to relevant policies, procedures and values relating to safeguarding children and adults at risk
  • Support the Group’s commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion
  • Manage the roadmap, supported by prioritisation determined by senior leadership, for data automations and analytical integrations, driving projects forward.
  • Create and manage a knowledge-base, including documentation of your designs (e.g., system design, functional design, data flow design) ensuring there is version control and contingency processes for all aspects.


Required skills and experience for the role


  • Demonstrable experience or certification(s) within the field of data engineering, data science, and/or business analysis.
  • Practical experience of database design and data transformation, supported by ETL processing.
  • Managing data pipelines & orchestration that enable the transfer and processing of data. (Databricks, Microsoft Fabric, Alteryx. Snowflake, Apache)
  • Coding and programming, capable of working through complex problems with others from the team, adapting quickly to changing market trends and business needs. (SQL, Python or R)
  • Utilising cloud-based services and corresponding toolsets. (Microsoft Azure, GCP, AWS or similar).
  • Comfortable handling structured and unstructured data, from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party data sources, combining multiple data sets, to produce a cohesive picture of performance and derive insights and recommendations.
  • Experience working directly with business stakeholders ensuring complex information is articulated in a meaningful way.

Applying for the opportunity

If you feel you have the required skills and experience and want to be considered for this opportunity, please forward an up-to-date version of your CV. If we feel your profile is a suitable match, someone will contact you within 48 hours.