Systems Support Developer in Newport

We want to make Cardiff University an institution that is respected the world over. Our vision is to be a world-leading, research-excellent, educationally outstanding university, driven by creativity and curiosity, which fulfils its social, cultural, and economic obligations to Cardiff, Wales, the UK and the world. We expect to improve our standing as one of the top 100 universities in the world and the top 20 in the UK.

Ensuring the security of our research, teaching and administrative systems and their data from theft, compromise and corruption is of crucial importance to enable us to achieve our vision. University IT provides critical support to c7,000 staff, 30,000+ students, and 38 academic and professional service schools and departments. The needs of learning and teaching, research and core services present an ever-changing set of challenges in an organisation that is constantly evolving. We support the University to deliver its strategy.

An opportunity has arisen within the Business Intelligence development team. The BI Development team designs, builds and maintains the University’s core business intelligence and data warehousing capabilities, delivering reliable, secure and well governed data structures that underpin reporting, analytics and statutory returns. The team develops and supports end to end BI solutions across the Microsoft stack including ETL, data models, semantic layers and Power BI and is now leading the transition to Microsoft Fabric as the modern data platform. Working closely with analysts, service teams and senior stakeholders, the team ensures high quality, trusted data is available to support operational decision making, regulatory compliance, digital transformation initiatives and strategic planning across the institution.

As a passionate and knowledgeable Business Intelligence developer, you will provide advice and guidance to colleagues within university IT and the wider university. You will support the team by providing advice, insight and guidance in BI product stack trends and developments to customers. You will be a BI developer with experience of working with datasets; manipulating, transforming and analysing data in the Microsoft stack of tools and knowledge of the lifecycle of BI reporting.

Cardiff University can offer many attractive benefits to its employees, including a competitive salary, 37 days annual leave per annum and a generous pension scheme. This post is full-time (35 hours per week) and open ended. Salary: £33,951 - £36,636 per annum (Grade 5). Appointments to roles at Cardiff University are expected to be at bottom of scale except in exceptional circumstances.

Cardiff University is committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. We believe this can be achieved through attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse range of staff from many different backgrounds who have the ambition to create a University which seeks to fulfil our social, cultural and economic obligation to Cardiff, Wales, and the world.

In supporting our employees to achieve a balance between their work and their personal lives, we will also consider proposals for flexible working or job share arrangements. Applications may be submitted in Welsh, and an application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application submitted in English.