At a Glance
- Tasks: Design and develop high-quality Power BI dashboards for a major Retail Transformation Programme.
- Company: Join a well-established organisation leading innovative retail transformation initiatives.
- Benefits: Earn £450-£500 per day, with strong extension potential and hybrid work options.
- Other info: Opportunity to collaborate with top teams and enhance your career in a dynamic environment.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by delivering enterprise reporting solutions that drive business success.
- Qualifications: Extensive Power BI experience and strong stakeholder management skills required.
We're working with a well-established organisation undergoing a major Retail Transformation Programme and are looking to appoint an experienced Power BI Developer on an initial 3+ month Outside IR35 contract.
This opportunity sits across several high-profile transformation initiatives, with a strong focus on Retail, Omnichannel and Finance workstreams, delivering enterprise reporting solutions that will become core to the organisation's BAU reporting capability.
Essential Experience
- Previous experience delivering Power BI solutions within a Retail Transformation programme.
- Experience supporting Retail, Omnichannel and Finance workstreams.
- Proven ability to transition reporting solutions from project delivery into BAU, acting as the conduit between transformation teams and operational business functions.
- Strong stakeholder management skills, working across both business and technology teams.
- What you'll be doing
- Design, develop and maintain high-quality Power BI dashboards and reports.
- Translate business requirements into scalable reporting and data modelling solutions.
- Develop robust semantic models using star schema principles.
- Build complex DAX measures, KPIs and Power Query transformations.
- Optimise report performance, datasets and refresh processes.
- Integrate Power BI with SQL Server, Azure, Databricks, APIs, Share Point and other enterprise data sources.
- Implement Row-Level Security (RLS) and support data governance best practices.
- Work with engineering teams to determine whether business metrics should be calculated within Power BI or upstream within the ETL platform.
- Collaborate with Business Analysts, Data Engineers and senior stakeholders to deliver high-quality reporting solutions.
- Support the transition of transformation deliverables into a sustainable BAU reporting environment.
Essential Skills
- Extensive commercial experience with Microsoft Power BI (Desktop & Service).
- Advanced DAX, Power Query (M) and SQL (T-SQL preferred).
- Strong understanding of dimensional modelling and star schema design.
- Experience developing high-performance enterprise reporting solutions.
- Strong understanding of ETL processes and data warehousing concepts.
- Experience integrating multiple enterprise data sources.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
Desirable
- Databricks experience.
- Azure Data Factory, Synapse or Azure SQL.
- Microsoft Fabric exposure.
- Power Platform (Power Apps / Power Automate).
- PL-300 certification.
- CI/CD or Dev Ops experience for BI deployments.
- What's on Offer
- Outside IR35
- 3+ Month Contract
- Hybrid (London)
- Opportunity to work on a major Retail Transformation Programme
- Strong extension potential
If you're an experienced Power BI Developer with a proven track record of delivering within large-scale retail transformation programmes and embedding reporting solutions into BAU operations, I'd be keen to discuss the opportunity further.
- Desired Skills and Experience
- Power BI, Retail, and Finance
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Power BI Developer - OUTSIDE IR35 in West End employer: Henderson Scott
Henderson Scott is an excellent employer, offering a dynamic work environment in Glasgow that fosters collaboration and innovation. With a strong emphasis on employee growth, we provide opportunities for professional development and a hybrid working model that promotes work-life balance. Join us to be part of a team that values effective communication and impactful delivery in the realm of systems integration.
