D&i Data Modeller in Scotland

Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Glasgow, is currently looking to recruit a Data Modeller for initial 9 month contracts with potential to extend on a rate of £526/day (Inside IR35). These roles will be hybrid working with a minimum of 2 days per week in their Glasgow office.

The Data Modeller will be responsible for designing, developing, and maintaining high-quality data models and datamarts that support analytical and reporting needs. They will translate business requirements into scalable, performant, and well-structured data models that enable efficient consumption in Power BI and other reporting tools.

• Working as part of a multidisciplinary Agile delivery team, the Data Modeller will ensure that data structures are robust, governed, and aligned with organisational data standards and architecture principles.
• Designing and developing dimensional data models and datamarts to support reporting and analytics use cases.
• Translating business requirements and user stories into logical and physical data models aligned to reporting needs.
• Applying best-practice dimensional modelling techniques to optimise usability and performance.
• Collaborating with Data Engineers to ensure data pipelines and transformations deliver clean, reliable, and appropriately structured data.
• Defining and maintaining data definitions, metadata, and data dictionaries to support consistent understanding and reuse.
• Ensuring data models are optimised for Power BI consumption, including considerations for performance, aggregation, and usability.
• Supporting the design of semantic layers and ensuring alignment between data models and reporting models.
• Working closely with Business Analysts and Power BI Developers to ensure data structures meet analytical requirements.
• Implementing and upholding data governance standards, including naming conventions, lineage, and documentation.
• Identifying opportunities to improve data quality, consistency, and reusability across datamarts.
• Supporting testing and validation activities, ensuring data accuracy and integrity.
• Contributing to continuous improvement in data modelling standards, patterns, and tools.
• Solid understanding of how data modelling impacts report performance and usability.
• Working with SQL and data transformation processes.
• Working with modern data platforms (data warehouses, data lakes).
• Data governance, metadata management, and data quality principles.
• Working in Agile delivery teams, collaborating with cross-functional roles.
• Analytical thinking, attention to detail, and ability to communicate data concepts clearly.
• 3-7+ years’ experience in data modelling, data warehousing, or analytics engineering roles is expected.