We're looking for a passionate and driven Business Intelligence Analyst (12 months fixed term contract for Maternity Cover) to join our Data & Analytics team at Willmott Dixon. Although the IT team are based at our head office in Letchworth Garden City, this role can be done as either a hybrid, or a remote role. Occasional travel to Letchworth and other sites may be required according to business needs.
As a Business Intelligence Analyst you'll play a key role in shaping and leading how we plan and deliver insights and BI solutions to the business, acting as a go-to person within the team and helping us to continuously evolve our Business Intelligence capability.
This is more than just a technical role, you'll be a coach, consultant, and trusted partner, able to build a deep understanding of business priorities and needs. You'll identify opportunities with the greatest impact to enable data-driven decision-making, working closely with stakeholders to translate their needs into impactful insights and actionable reports and empower people to self-serve their data needs.
The IT team are a great team to work with and would describe themselves as: -
- Flexible
- Fun
- Uncomplicated
- Genuine and friendly
- Innovative and keen to improve
- Responsive to customer needs
Main duties will include:
- Technical Leadership: Lead the design and development of BI solutions, ensuring best practices in solution architecture, performance, usability, and scalability.
- Solution Delivery: Scope, design, build and support new and existing self-service reports and dashboards to deliver clear, actionable insights. Practise good change management and version control to ensure reliable deployments.
- Data Governance: Ensure compliance with data governance standards and best practices, safeguarding data quality, integrity, and security.
- Continuous Improvement: Stay up to date with industry trends to drive innovation and inform improvements to our tools and processes for business benefit.
- Mentoring & Coaching: Support peer development by sharing knowledge, promoting best practices, and fostering a culture of learning. Champion development standards and ensure they are understood and adopted across the team.
- Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and deliver appropriate BI solutions.
- Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain positive working-relationships with business stakeholders. Managing conflicting priorities between stakeholders.
- Customer Engagement: Represent the Data & Analytics team in technical discussions, identifying solutions to customer issues, and promoting the value of data-driven insights. Take ownership of customer escalations and see them through to resolution.
Essential Criteria
- Strong experience delivering BI solutions, including reports, dashboards, and data visualizations.
- Expertise in Microsoft BI, data, and analytics tools, with a focus on Power BI and skills in DAX and PowerQuery.
- Proven track record of leading technical projects and teams, effectively managing stakeholders at all levels.
- Strong SQL skills with hands-on experience in relational databases.
- Excellent time management skills, capable of balancing multiple deliverables and meeting deadlines.
- Quick to learn and adapt with a growth-mindset.
- Strong communicator, able to translate complex technical concepts into clear, business-friendly language.
- Genuine passion for data and analytics, with a constant drive to innovate and stay up to date with industry trends.
- Exceptional customer-facing skills, ensuring positive engagement and outcomes.
- Solid problem-solving abilities, with a focus on seeing the big picture and delivering solutions that make an impact. Desirable Criteria * Familiarity with data governance and security best practices.
- Knowledge and skills in ETL processes, data warehousing, and data modelling.
- Experience with Azure DevOps Boards and delivering projects within an Agile Scrum framework.
- Understanding of ITIL practices and the software development lifecycle.
Willmott Dixon embraces diversity in the workplace and will consider flexible and agile working. We are a disability confident employer.
Benefits: In return we reward our people generously with a competitive package that gives you flexible benefits to fit your lifestyle and priorities. This includes but is not limited to, an enhanced pension scheme, full / heavily discounted private medical, life assurance, incentive bonus and a car scheme which will make us a market leader in sustainable company travel. Applicable roles will benefit from a motoring expenditure allowance (MEA) and everyone can access a new generation of low carbon and electric cars via the Willmott Dixon run car leasing scheme.
About Us With 170 years of rich history, Willmott Dixon's purpose beyond profit is to deliver brilliant buildings, transform lives, strengthen communities, and enhance the environment so our world is fit for future generations. Ensuring that we add lasting value to the neighbourhoods we work in; our values, people, innovation, partnerships and focus on sustainability has allowed us to build a successful and trusted privately owned business where our people can thrive.
Willmott Dixon has recently been awarded No 1 in the Best "Big" Companies (2022) to work for and already holds the Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2022 and is the first major contractor and developer to win a King's Award for Enterprise in the category of sustainable development.