Junior Business Intelligence Developer

Junior Business Intelligence Developer

The closing date is 03 May 2026.

This is an exciting opportunity (fixed term - 18 months) for a self‑motivated individual to join the Business Intelligence Integrated Performance team within Digital and Data Services. This post will work as part of the Trust's Business Intelligence (BI) team (referred to as the IIC Team) and will be responsible for the design, development, documentation and testing of bespoke dashboards and reports that will be used to support and improve both patient care and management decision making across the Trust.

This will involve working closely with other BI Developers and ETL/Data Warehouse developers within the IIC Team, staff within the wider Business Intelligence & Reporting section and customers, to support the Trust's Business Intelligence, information and Digital & Data agenda.

The team are in the process of evolving the IIC to further support the Trust's Digital and Data Journey to Change. Within the last year the IIC has migrated to the IBM Cloud so the successful applicant will be ideally placed to develop their skills using IBM Cloud Pak for Data and all the exciting and innovative technology that it entails including AI and machine learning.

You must have the Right to Work in the UK in order to be successfully appointed to this role. Please note, this role does not meet the required eligibility criteria for sponsorship under the Skilled Worker visa and therefore the Trust is unable to offer sponsorship for this particular role.

The successful candidate will have a background in Business Intelligence report and dashboard development (ideally with IBM's Cognos Analytics and related InfoSphere products), with demonstrable, practical skills in relation to Business Intelligence software and associated technologies.

Candidates with strong skills in alternative products such as Power BI, SSRS, QlikView, Crystal Reports, Tableau or other products will also be considered.

Good communication, organisation and documentation skills are essential.

The candidate will be responsible for gathering requirements using techniques such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, surveys, use cases, business and workflow analysis.

They will support end users of the IIC system by engaging with them to provide training, resolve support calls raised by users and contribute to the development of training materials and guidance documents.

The candidate will be able to analyse business/functional needs and requirements and maintain contact with the customer throughout the development lifecycle and sign‑off process.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached standard job description for more details relating to the main responsibilities and essential criteria. If you would like to discuss the role further, please contact us. The responsibilities will include:

• To develop and maintain the Trusts dashboards, reports and alerts that reside within the IIC portal, supporting the Trusts Business Intelligence and Information agenda.
• To gather, define and document user requirements that are clear, concise and testable; to translate those requirements to a plan of work that can be understood and implemented by the development team; to ensure the development meets the objectives and needs of the customer.
• To promote and champion the use and functionality of the IIC within the organisation.
• To actively contribute and engage with the IIC Team Agile sprint process including sprint planning, estimation of efforts, daily team huddles, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
• To promote a data quality culture throughout the organisation to ensure accurate, complete and up‑to‑date information is available from IIC information system to support decision making and management.
• To manage and resolve IIC system support calls, ensuring service desk software is updated and calls resolved within agreed service level agreements.
• To support and develop SQL metrics which are used by stakeholders throughout the Trust.
• To undertake system testing of own and peer developments.
• To create and manage system documentation to ensure knowledge transfer, support and maintenance of the IIC.
• To work autonomously, under pressure and to meet deadlines using organisational planning skills.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Educated to Degree standard or equivalent in a relevant subject or with equivalent experiential learning in the field of information analysis and reporting.
• Equivalent experiential learning in the field of Information systems design, development and implementation.

Experience

• Experience in creating Dashboards and Reports using Cognos or similar reporting tools.
• Experience of using and writing advanced SQL and other system development languages.
• Experience of managing and supporting complex database management systems in busy, confidential settings.
• Experience of a customer‑led service.
• Experience of NHS IT systems and services.
• Experience of working with large data.

Knowledge

• Knowledge of the development cycle including requirements gathering, design, build, test, release and sign‑off.
• Good numeracy and analytical skills.
• Good understanding of system change control processes, upgrade paths and release management.
• Knowledge of clinical procedures/terminology.

Skills

• Ability to work autonomously, under pressure and meet deadlines using excellent organisational planning skills.
• Develop and maintain communication with people about difficult matters and/or in difficult situations. Ability to grasp high‑level concepts and relate to operational detail.
• Use of IBM Cognos Reporting Studio and Framework Manager.
• Ability to resolve complicated data queries and issues that might reside at a data or report level.
• Facilitation of design workshops with customers.

Personal Attributes

• Committed to continual quality and service improvement.
• Self‑aware and committed to continual professional and personal development. Able to accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Tees Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust

Full‑time, Flexible working, Home or remote working