As a Business Intelligence Developer, you will play a pivotal role in transforming data into actionable insights, driving strategic decisions, and enhancing the overall efficiency of our healthcare services. Your expertise will ensure the stability, performance, and security of our BI platforms and data marts, enabling data-driven decision-making across the organisation.
The Business Intelligence Developer collaborates with fellow data engineers, analysts, and business users to create robust, scalable data solutions that empower data-driven decision-making and support business intelligence function.
You will not only provide technical expertise but also act as a bridge between data team and business functions, troubleshooting issues, and enhancing the overall analytics environment. Additionally, this role plays a crucial part in BI strategy development, ensuring that reporting tools and datasets are scalable, reliable, and align with the Trust’s broader data strategy.
This position demands a proactive mindset, with continuous improvements to system architecture and business processes as a key focus.
Main duties of the job
Key responsibilities
BI Product Development & Platform Administration
Strategy, Leadership & SME Role
Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration
Data Transformation & Analysis
Quality Assurance & Compliance
Process Improvement & Innovation
Documentation, Training & SupportProject & Request Management
Research Analytics Leadership
Person Specification
Trust Values
Essential
- Putting patients first
- Responsive to patients and staff
- Open and honest
- Unfailingly kind
- Determined to develop
Education and Qualifications
Essential
- Educated to Master levels (or equivalent experience) in computer science, data engineering or related subject or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Business Intelligence, Data Management or related qualifications
Experience
Essential
- Significant experience in BI development, with expertise in QlikSense and other BI tools
- Experience of leading and delivering complex change and strategy development programmes in a politically sensitive and complex environment
- Ability to present complex technical ideas/solutions to non-technical audiences
- Ability to work with internal and external stakeholders, fostering and maintaining good relationships throughout, including managing expectations and deliverables.
- Experience in working with databases namely experience in using SQL, including data transformation experience
- Data engineering and reporting experience
- Experiencing of creating robust data and reporting internal policies and documentation on, including following and creating best practice methods
- Documenting key information relating to processes on data work e.g. ETL pipelines, transformations, data models, integrations, workflows and similar.
- Experience of working with BI tools such as Qlik
- Analysing information in a health environment
Desirable
- Proven experience in analysing and interpreting complex datasets and dashboards
- Experience of warehouse and relational database design and object management
- Qlik platform administration and maintenance (including Qlik Cloud)
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of information management gained through senior management experience
- Understanding of role of NHS data standards, data definitions, information governance
- Knowledge of best practice data modelling and data reporting techniques, including creating documenting this and related activities
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely, both written and oral, at all levels, both within the trust and with external stakeholders
- Proficiency in querying and reporting against relational databases, Structured Query Language (SQL) or similar
- Expertise in QlikSense and other BI/data visualization tools.
- Understanding of data governance, data quality, and audit practices.
- Extensive knowledge of staff management gained through senior management experience and/or qualification
- Strong Project Management & MS Excel Skills
Desirable
- Highly data rational with the ability to use quantitative and qualitative information to stimulate improvement and provide assurance on data integrity
- Ability to use data science techniques and statistics, including use of Python/R
- Ability to manipulate data in data lakes using PySpark/Experience with cloud-based data architectures and scalable data solutions
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Excellent stakeholder management and interpersonal skills
- Intellectually flexible and creative, challenging current ways of working to produce innovative outputs
- Highly developed negotiation and influencing skills
- Ability to manage and self-organise while dealing with multiple competing priorities
- Initiative and proactive approach to system/process improvement
- Commitment to continuous learning and keeping up with industry trends.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 27 January 2026
