Power BI Developer

Required Power BI Developer for an intail 6month contract, which is likely to be extended, working within the IT department withtin the client organisation responsible for the construction and operation of the UK’s new High-Speed Railway to directly link the city centres of: London, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester.

Job Purpose

The Power BI Developer will be required to assist in the provision of high quality reporting and analytics processes and tools for the programme as well as delivering the data science capability to ensure HS2 is able to exploit their valuable information and data using the latest tools and techniques.

You will be working on a large range of projects where you will create dashboards, reports, data modelling - projects could include: report for the Land and Propoerty department regarding land and property purchases, stakeholder engagement report etc.

Looking for a Power BI developer who is very proficient in Power BI able to create reports, dashboards and model data and in addition code in SQL (plus CCIS)

Working Situation – Hybrid very flexible
Role is based from Snowhill Birmingham coupled with Hybrid working – expectation is to work 1 days a week from the office and the rest of the time at home.  This is a modern flexible employer.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Support HS2’s strategy for data analysis, ensuring it is in line with business needs, the Delivery Strategy, Information Strategy and IT Strategy
• Lead internal consultancy and delivery projects to enable the organisation to get maximum value from its information
• Monitor emerging technologies for relevance to HS2’s needs and propose potential solutions in the areas of business intelligence, management reporting, data exploitation and data analytics
• Lead work to bring data analytics approach into programme controls and design/engineering processes to aid decision making and support HS2’s BIM capability, in particular using data to aid cross-functional working across these disciplines.
• Use data science and exploitation to drive intelligent decision making across the entire HS2 programme.
• Work with stakeholders across ICT and HS2 to ensure technology strategy supports data analysis needs, providing the best-in-breed tools to support the HS2’s requirements. Provides support and maintenance of analytics and BI solutions.
• Work with stakeholders across the organisation to explain, educate and enthuse on the opportunities of information and methods for business intelligence, management reporting, data exploitation and data analytics
• Support the Data Analytics Manager in establishing a high-performing data analytics team as a key part of the overall Information Management team. This team provides support for wider capability in data analytics across the HS2 business
• Further points
• Creation, maintenance, training and support in HS2 standards for BI and analytics
• Actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

Required Criteria

Looking for a Businee Intelligence Analyst with broad BI Skills couled with excellent Power  BISkills, you will be a Power BI developer.

SKILLS

• Ability to produce and present documents and reports to a variety of audiences, including internal stakeholders at various levels in the organisation
• Ability to produce and present documents and reports to a variety of audiences, including internal stakeholders at various levels in the organisation.
• An understanding of the Data Science field in order to provide support to the Data Science population
• Ability to use programming languages such SQL
• The ability to analyse, model and interpret data
• The ability to plan work and meet agreed deadlines
• Team working skills
• Consulting skills, the ability to liaise with both Business users and Technical resources and translate requirements and/or technical requirements between and adjusting communication styles accordingly.
• Problem solving skills
• The ability  to develop and document process flows
• The ability to carry out data quality control validation and linkage
• Skilled at transforming relevant data to help with business decision-making

KNOWLEDGE

Knowledge or experience of using data science approaches to solve business problems

Understanding and experience of the value and opportunities of information and data analytics to organisations and large delivery programmes.

TYPE OF EXPERIENCE

Knowledge and understanding of:

The role of information in businesses

Information/data modelling approaches

Data analytics approaches and tools (e.g. reporting, business intelligence, management information)

Experience of maintaining and updating BI tools, dashboards, systems or methods

Experience of using and implementing Power BI  - will be a Power BI developer