Senior BI Analyst Developer
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Summary
The UK’s fastest growing and largest independent energy supplier is seeking a BI Analyst Developer with experience in Data Warehousing and SQL server to join their expanding team. First Utility is committed to helping customers reduce their energy bills through the use of innovative technology, by offering cheaper tariffs and campaigning for industry change. This opening comes at an exciting stage and offers a fantastic opportunity for you to be part of a team hungry to make a difference.
We are the ‘Growing Business Awards’ Growing Business of the Year 2014 and the only energy company to have been listed in the fast track 100 for four consecutive years
Role overview
This is an opportunity to work in a team of over 20 BI Analysts, including many experts in the latest SQL Server and with a growing specialism in Hadoop technologies.
You will develop processes to bring new data into our data ecosystem, create new "golden" versions of the truth and enable user access through reporting technologies including; SSRS, Qlikview and Zoomdata.
You will find that for every hour of your time you spend as a "developer", creating new windows onto the data, you will spend 7 hours on "analysis"; working with end users to understand expectations, to get them comfortable with unexpected results and to resolve data quality issues.
Areas of specific responsibility
- Contribute to the design and development of the data ecosystem including the development of SQL/SSIS based processes to acquire and process new data
- Development and productionisation of reports, dashboards and data extracts
- Perform ad hoc "slice and dice" data analysis to inform business decisions
- Authoring technical and user documentation so other colleagues can support and use your outputs
The desirable candidate will have
ESSENTIAL
- Expert T-SQL and SQL Server SSIS skill
- Intermediate experience in relational and/or dimensional data modelling, building ETL processes, and database performance tuning and execution plan analysis
- Existing skills and/or appetite to develop skills in Hadoop technologies
- Able to deal with quickly changing priorities and a degree of ambiguity (we are a rapidly growing, entrepreneurial company)
- Able to communicate technical detail in ways that business users can understand to help them access and interpret information hidden within large and complex datasets
- Able to own your own personal development plan, identifying and pursuing your learning and development needs
DESIRABLE
- SQL Server SSRS development
- Producing innovative, interactive and intuitive visualisation in tools such as Qlikview and Zoomdata enabling end users to quickly find the actionable information they need to make decisions
- Experience of the Energy Supply market
The Benefits
As well as a rewarding career, development opportunities and competitive salary, you’ll also enjoy 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), pension, option to purchase childcare vouchers, and become eligible for our staff energy tariff along with other great ad-hoc offers
We believe in putting energy into looking after our teams, so you’ll benefit from BUPA Private Healthcare, cycle to work scheme, a great working environment with relaxation areas to recharge your batteries and free soft drinks available all day. We also have "Fruity Friday" where fresh fruit is available every week for all employees.