Lead Business Intelligence Developer - IT Services - 55999 - Grade 8

Location: University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK

Full time starting salary is normally in the range £47,389 to £56,535 with potential progression once in post to £63,606.

Closing date: 19 February 2026

Our offer to you:

• People are at the heart of what we are and do.
• The University of Birmingham is proud to have been a part of the City of Birmingham and the wider region for over 100 years, and we are equally proud to be recognised as a leading global university.
• We want to attract talented people from across the city and beyond, support them to succeed, and celebrate their success.
• We are committed to helping the people who work here to develop through our sector-leading Birmingham Professional programme which provides all professional services staff with development opportunities and the encouragement to reach their full potential.
• Supporting our people to achieve a healthy work/life balance is important both to our employees and to the success of the University.
• We offer a variety of flexible working arrangements.
• You will receive a generous package of benefits including 40 days paid holiday a year, one paid day a year for volunteering, occupational sick pay, and a pension scheme.

Background:

The University of Birmingham is a global institution working within a diverse and vibrant City, offering an inspiring education to our students, and undertaking critically important research.

Department overview:

The role of IT Services is to ensure that the University of Birmingham community has access to responsive, resilient, secure and accessible systems and support.

Role Summary:

The University has a requirement for a Lead Business Intelligence (BI) Developer who has significant skills and experience in Cloud data warehousing and systems analysis/design.

Main Duties:

• Systems design: Specifies and designs large or complex business intelligence solutions.
• Programming/data lifecycle development: Contributes to local or team-based standards for BI programming tools and techniques.
• Software release and deployment: Assesses and analyses release components.
• Business intelligence methods and tools: Provides expertise and support on use of methods and tools.
• Emerging technology monitoring: Maintains awareness of opportunities provided by new technology.
• Technology leadership and innovation: Provides organisational leadership and guidelines to promote the development and exploitation of business intelligence solutions.
• Relationship and stakeholder management: Implements stakeholder engagement including handling of problems and issues to resolution.
• Other duties: Actively manages equality, diversity and inclusion through monitoring and evaluation.

Person Specification:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent qualification plus substantial work experience in a relevant technical/scientific and/or management/supervisory role.
• Proven technical specialist knowledge and understanding in a relevant technical area.
• Snowflake certified with relevant hands-on experience.
• ETL tools – how to build data pipelines using cloud ETL Tools.
• Tableau/ Power BI experience of integration with a cloud warehouse.
• Data architecture and modelling experience.
• Experience with the Python programming language or similar.
• Experience with source control systems such as GIT.
• Experience of working agile teams using methodologies such as Scrum or Kanban.
• Advanced skills in SQL.

Core competencies/transferable skills:

• Planning and organising: Lead and manage a technical/IT/specialist team to deliver a service.
• Problem solving and decision making: Use analytical and problem-solving skills to resolve specialist and technical issues.
• Organisational understanding: Has an excellent understanding of own working area and a broad understanding of the contribution other areas make to the success of the University.
• Relationships and communication: Communicate clearly on technical or professional issues to non-specialists and senior level audiences.

We believe there is no such thing as a 'typical' member of University of Birmingham staff and that diversity in its many forms is a strength that underpins the exchange of ideas, innovation and debate at the heart of University life.