Business Intelligence Consultant

At Dufrain, our BI Practice delivers advanced BI solutions, alongside strategic guidance and governance support across a wide range of industries. Our BI Consultants play a pivotal role in supporting clients navigate the complexities of data management, analytics, and strategy providing expertise, guidance and advice in order to help them effectively leverage their data assets for making informed decisions and achieving their business objectives. This role is UK-based (Manchester, or London) with hybrid working. Occasional on-site attendance at client locations as required.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Demonstrate credible ability and a good knowledge of delivering enterprise level BI implementations end-to-end.
• Applying domain knowledge to identify problems and use systematic steps to solve them or provide recommendations.
• Develop good working relationships with clients on a project, including presenting deliverables and proof of concept demonstrations with confidence.
• Inform a client’s BI Strategy, encourage adoption of best practice, and challenge clients and colleagues around delivery approach or content of deliverables.
• Gathering requirements from stakeholders with a range of technical backgrounds.
• Have accountabilities for all/part of key deliverables or pieces of work delivering curated, BI-centric data models, alongside Data Engineers and Architects utilising industry leading tools.
• Structure and deliver a high-quality piece of work and manage against a plan, communicating status and escalating problems to client/senior team members where necessary.
• The role will also involve, but is not limited to:

• Migration of content from legacy systems into modern BI platforms.
• Implementing industry standard solutions.
• Support clients across a range of sectors.
• Debugging and optimisation of existing reporting solutions.
• Resource consumption and cost optimisation.
• Develop understanding of governing enterprise level BI environments.
• Testing and documentation.
• Presenting.

ROLE SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Experience in a Business Intelligence role.
• Proficient in designing, implementing and maintaining solutions using Power BI.
• Strong understanding of relational databases, SQL, and data modelling concepts in a BI environment.
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and communication skills.
• Strong desire to learn and adapt to new technologies.
• Consulting experience.
• Experience of delivery using other BI technologies (Tableau, Qlik, MicroStrategy, Quicksight etc).
• BI Governance principles.
• Azure Data Factory, Fabric or Databricks experience.

If you’re passionate about data, and you’re looking to join a leading data and analytics company based in the UK, you could find your dream role at Dufrain. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK and not require sponsorship now or in the future. Visa sponsorship is not available.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or any other status protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to these factors. We encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds and experiences.