SBF-Senior Data Engineer/BI Solution Designer

At IBM CIC, we provide technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients in the UK. A career in IBM CIC means you’ll have the opportunity to work with leading professionals across multiple industries to improve the hybrid cloud and AI journey for the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. You will get the chance to deliver effective solutions, driving meaningful business change for our clients, using some of the latest technology platforms. Curiosity and a constant quest for knowledge serve as the foundation to success here. You’ll be encouraged and supported to constantly reinvent yourself, focusing on skills in demand in an ever changing market. You’ll be working with diverse teams, coming up with creative solutions which impact a wide network of clients, who may be at their site or one of our CIC or IBM locations. Our culture of evolution centres on long-term career growth and development opportunities in an environment that embraces your unique skills and experience.

We Offer

• Many training opportunities from classroom to e-learning, mentoring and coaching programs and the chance to gain industry recognized certifications.
• Regular and frequent promotion opportunities to ensure you can drive and develop your career with us.
• Feedback and checkpoints throughout the year.
• Diversity & Inclusion as an essential and authentic component of our culture through our policies and process as well as our Employee Champion teams and support networks.
• A culture where your ideas for growth and innovation are always welcome.
• Internal recognition programs for peer-to-peer appreciation as well as from manager to employees.
• Tools and policies to support your work-life balance from flexible working approaches, sabbatical programs, paid paternity leave, maternity leave and an innovative maternity returners scheme.
• More traditional benefits, such as 25 days holiday (in addition to public holidays), private medical, dental & optical cover, online shopping discounts, an Employee Assistance Program, life assurance and a group personal pension plan of an additional 5% of your base salary paid by us monthly to save for your future.

Your Role And Responsibilities

We are seeking an accomplished Managing Business Intelligence Data Engineer to lead our BI strategy and oversee the delivery of enterprise-wide reporting solutions. In this leadership role, you will define the architecture for web-based BI systems, ensuring they deliver personalised, interactive features that meet business needs. You will manage the integration of multiple BI platforms, enabling seamless user experiences across reporting and analytics environments. Your deep expertise in Cognos BI, Cognos Analytics, and data modelling will guide the creation of dashboards and scorecards that set the standard for best practice visualisation. You will be responsible for strategic stakeholder engagement, ensuring BI solutions align with organisational objectives and deliver measurable impact. This is an opportunity to shape the future of our data-driven decision-making capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic leadership for BI reporting architecture and delivery.
• Oversee the design and implementation of enterprise-scale Cognos BI and Cognos Analytics solutions.
• Drive integration between BI platforms for consistent reporting and analysis workflows.
• Establish best practice standards for dashboard and scorecard visualisation.
• Engage with stakeholders to align BI solutions with organisational goals.

Education

Preferred Education: Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Mastery of Cognos BI 10.2 and Cognos Analytics 11.1.7.
• Deep expertise in data modelling and Framework Manager design.
• Proven ability to lead BI platform integration projects.
• Strong leadership and communication skills.
• Ability to translate complex data challenges into strategic solutions.

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Experience with MicroStrategy, Actuate, and other BI tools at scale.
• Track record in delivering BI solutions for complex, multi-department organisations.
• Familiarity with KPI frameworks and enterprise scorecard design.
• Background in large-scale dashboard governance and visualisation standards.