BI Engineering Lead

Worthing, England, United Kingdom

1/3/2025

Closing Date

28/02/2025

Location: Durrington (Worthing) – Hybrid with needs-based time in the office.

Contract Type: Permanent

Salary: 47,900.00 - 67,600.00 GBP Annual

Hours: 37 hours

Are you ready to make a difference in the water & waste industry?

Southern Water is undergoing several transformation initiatives which will improve business processes and enhance value to our customers. We are recruiting a variety of people to join our team to support the transformations now, and into the future.

As Business Intelligence Engineering Lead, you will be stepping into a critical role and you will be responsible for leading us on our exciting BI journey of transformation and improvement. You will be our champion of change on how information is delivered across the business, setting the BI framework and standards ensuring that the highest quality and consistency is met within a timely and effective way.

Your Responsibilities Are To Include

• Deliver visualisations to aid the understanding of data, deliver insights and tangible value, build appropriate solutions in line with BI standards
• To produce efficient and effective reports and dashboards that meet the business requirements, support KPI management and effective decision making in Southern Water
• Analyse business requirements, source systems and business processes to ensure data is being used correctly when creating performance reporting (KPI’s, metrics and measures)
• Identify data quality issues and where possible propose solutions to improve data quality
• Own the responsibility for testing, certification, and promotion of content for BI, this includes small change and new products
• Support the business with knowledge transfer, testing, documentation, and service acceptance
• Work with Data Engineers to build an effective data model for BI (consumption, presentation, semantic layers) to maximise efficiency and democratisation
• Work with IT to understand the implications of system changes on performance reporting outputs
• Support the review and transition from Qlikview to Qliksense & Power BI
• Provide support and facilitate growth in your team.
  
  

Skills And Experience Needed

• Excellent understanding of the use of visualisations to aid the understanding of data and insight is essential as is significant working knowledge of Power BI, Qlik (View and Sense), Alteryx and other BI tools.
• Strong understanding of Azure services and what is needed to build and maintain data pipelines in ADF, Databricks, Synapse and similar services.
• Understanding of data modelling techniques to support effective and efficient delivery of BI use cases, ability to comprehend BI needs and communicate across functions.
• Excel in problem solving, a passion for data and excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills
• Experience in planning and executing automation activities to improve quality of delivery and streamline activities
• Ability to think outside the box and have a collaborative and open approach, ensuring appropriate governance, to change management as well as the ability to drive the business forward to a common goal.
  
  

What Do We Offer?

We offer a comprehensive package, salary range from 47,900.00 - 67,600.00 GBP Annual depending on skills and experience.

More benefits!

• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays.
• BUPA cash plan cover (with options to upgrade for family coverage).
• Free annual flu jab and eye test vouchers.
• Pension contributions up to 11% (depending on your contribution).
• An employee assistance program.
• A network of sports and social clubs.
• Company and performance-related bonus.
• Life assurance equal to 4x salary.
• Salary sacrifice electric car scheme (after 6 months service).
• Health Cash Plan.
• Two paid volunteering days a year.
• Occupational health service.
• Discounts with over 800 popular retailers.
• Digital GP service.
• Study support may be available for job-related qualifications.
• Competitive maternity & paternity leave and flexible return to work options.
• Cycle to work scheme.
  
  

Does this opportunity excite you but you’re not 100% sure if you meet all the requirements for the role? Or are you concerned that ‘normal’ office hours aren’t possible given your personal circumstances? Whilst we can’t accommodate every flexible working request, we’ll try to find a practical solution. So why not engage with us and find out more about this role?

If this role isn’t quite what you’re looking for but are keen to be contacted about opportunities at Southern Water, you can register your details here: Introduce Yourself (myworkdaysite.com)

Our customers are at the heart of everything we do, because delivering water for life is our core purpose. To achieve this, we need 24/7 support in place to resolve incidents quickly and efficiently. All our employees understand the importance of out-of-hours incident support – because when problems appear, fixing them is our top priority. That’s why our people join together and support when and however needed to make sure our customers get the service they deserve. Joining the Southern Water family means you’ll become part of our incident support team. During your interview, your manager will speak to you about any incident support rotas that apply to your position.

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All applicants must be eligible to live and work in the UK. You will need to provide evidence of eligibility (e.g. a passport or long birth certificate and proof of NI) and current proof of address (dated within the last 3 months), will be required as part of the recruitment process. If you do not meet these criteria, your application will not be considered.