BI Developer (Remote)

Willmott Dixon are looking for an experienced Business Intelligence Developer to join our busy in-house application services team on contract basis. We are looking for somebody with strong Business Objects experience as well as some Power BI experience. We are looking for this person to pick up data and BI requests and incidents, and work with our customers to solve their issues and deliver their reporting requirements. You will have good communication skills as you will be talking to the business through teams/email and will need to liaise with our internal teams too. You will be able to work remotely but you may occasionally be required to travel to our Head Office in Letchworth Garden City.

The key responsibilities/objectives of the BI Developer will include: -

• To integrate fully into a project team and work with project stakeholders on gathering BI requirements to deliver high quality and accurate analysis to our business
• To understand and offer improvements to application and reporting database structure when required
• Structure data models to support the analysis required by the business
• To have experience in and to understand BI products, methods and processes (preference for Power BI and SSRS)
• Build and maintain good collaborative working-relationships with internal and external project stakeholders
• Organise and manage own workload effectively to meet all project timescales and managers expectations
• Carry out all assignments and projects in a manner that adheres to and complies to application services processes

You will need to have proven experience of:

• SAP Business Objects product suite (XI v3 and upwards) covering reporting and universe design
• UDT/IDT applications
• Webintelligence
• Power BI/SSRS
• SQL server Management Studio
• MS BI Stack (SSIS/SSRS/SSAS)
• T-SQL
• Knowledge of views/stored procedures/functions
• SQL Server database experience
• Use of SSIS and other ETL tools for data processing
• Knowledge of data warehousing strategies and theories
• Elicitation, documentation and validation of system requirements.
• System testing and techniques
• Delivery of technical projects
• Reading and accurately interpreting technical specifications and plans.
• Possessing a good range of general IT knowledge
• Direct experience of the software development life cycle.
• Managing conflicting priorities between stakeholders
• Proactively liaising with staff in non-technical manner.
• Building strong internal and external relationships.