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Job Description

My client is an international general insurance and reinsurance group specialising in commercial insurance.

Purpose of the Job:

The BI Developer will be responsible for developing some of the core components of an effective data analytics and reporting architecture capable of meeting a wide range of financial and underwriting reporting/analytics needs.

The BI Developer will;

  • Work in an agile, proactive manner delivering high quality solutions in agreed timescales.
  • Create reporting solutions in line with standards, architectural principles and practices.
  • Develop ETL/ELT processes, data lakes, data warehouse databases, cubes, reports, dashboards, in-line with company reporting strategy and system architecture.
  • Design models and databases both relational and dimensional to support reporting requirements.

This role sits within the department of COO, IT, Architecture & Analysis and reports into the Data and Reporting Architect.

Principal Accountabilities:

  • Assess business requirements and build reporting solutions to meet business needs
  • Build the key components of the data lake/MI/BI architecture
  • Follow Brit best practices, standards and design principles
  • Assist in developing standards for data lakes, data ingestion, data access layers and BI solutions
  • Ensure that adequate steps are taken to protect data
  • Update job knowledge by studying state-of-the-art platforms, tools and techniques
  • Ensure that all new BI/MI requirements are met using the most appropriate architecture components
  • Design of appropriate BI/MI solutions to meet business needs
     

Skills & Knowledge:

  • Strong SQL skills
  • Microsoft SQL Server or Azure SQL DB
  • Data modelling
  • Software development including database / reporting development, full development cycle
  • Strong problem solving, information analysis, attention to detail, flexibility of approach
  • The ability to deal directly with business functions and interpret their thoughts into successful reporting solutions
  • The ability to develop complex BI/MI solutions using the required tools set
  • Capable of working closely with the business and delivering complex requirements to tight timescales.
  • Strong interest in latest BI technologies and trends in the BI/MI industry


Bonus point for:

  • Experience in the build of data warehouse, data lake and/or other reporting/analytics projects
  • Experience of cloud architectures and solutions, especially Azure
  • Experience working with financial systems
  • Agile development techniques (SCRUM, Kanban etc)
  • Azure Data Lake Storage, Analysis Services (Multidimensional/Tabular), Power BI, Azure Data Factory, Azure Databricks/Spark, Python, MDX, DAX, SSIS, SSRS
  • Azure DevOps
If you are interested in this role please apply below or contact me for more information.

Eames Consulting is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy.