Senior Power BI Developer

Senior Power BI Developer

Job Type                   Permanent
Salary:                      Competitive Salary
Location:                  London Hybrid working  
Consultant:             Mags Rendle

The Company
We are thrilled to be working with an independent, progressive and first-class media agency based in central London with an established and impressive client base.

Formed in 1978 they are the Agency of choice for Charities and impactful businesses who are wanting a smart thinking, and faster moving agency who will be making their media work harder in the face of adversity.  

This is your opportunity to join this independent media specialist with an entrepreneurial culture that has constantly kept them ahead of the agency market and shaped the skills and capabilities they use to give their clients measurable business advantage.

The Role

As a Senior Power BI developer, you will step into a pivotal role within our organisation, leveraging your extensive experience and expertise to lead the development of advanced Power BI solutions. Your contributions will play a crucial role in shaping the data-driven decision-making processes of our company and enhance the value we provide to our clients.

Responsibilities:

• This is a fantastic opportunity for a Data Visualisation specialist, with strong campaign performance reporting skills and a passion for data analysis, to be an integral part of a thriving, profitable business - to help build a strong data offering that will be transformational for their people and our clients. The role will focus on several key deliverables:

• Leading the design and development of advanced Power BI reports and dashboards
• Providing guidance on data modeling (including sourcing data from our ETL platform) and DAX calculations
• Collaborating with stakeholders to define data requirements
• Ensuring data security and compliance
• Troubleshooting and optimizing Power BI solutions
• Mentoring and coaching junior developers
• Staying updated with industry trends and best practices
• Enable fast, easy, self-serve BI in every team, helping everyone to spend time on what really matters
• Maintain client and agency benchmark studies

How the magic happens:

• The Analytics & Insight team are responsible for leveraging the vast amounts of client data to discover insights, identify opportunities and build data products to drive the business forwards. They do this through the use of statistical, algorithmic and visualisation techniques.

• They collect data from dozens of data sources, ranging from industry research, macroeconomic data, web analytics info, transactional data, subscriptions and memberships, customer event-level data, media data, third party data and much, much more.  Our data is extremely varied, some being very finely grained, event-level data, others being already aggregated to various degrees. It also arrives on different schedules!

• The business logic we apply to the data is complex and the end uses for data are varied.  All this requires well-designed, robust, future-proofed data visualisation and performance reporting skills that can keep up with the business and support our ambitious plans to unlock the value of data strategically.

Required skills & experience:

• 3 to 5+ years of experience as a Power BI developer with excellent track record
• Extensive experience in developing and optimizing complex Power BI solutions using Power BI Desktop, Power BI Service, Power BI Pro and Power BI Mobile
• Proven ability to design and implement efficient & scalable data models
• In-depth knowledge of data integration techniques and tools
• Experience with data pipeline orchestration and automation
• Advanced knowledge of DAX calculations and data modelling
• Proficiency in SQL and data warehouse concepts would be advantageous
• Expertise in performance tuning and optimization of Power BI reports and SQL queries
• Some exposure to other visualisation platforms (esp Looker Studio) would be useful
• Experience working with automated data collation through use of web APIs and ETL platforms would be desirable

And you are:

• Pro-active with a self-starter mindset; able to identify elegant solutions to difficult problems and able to suggest new and creative approaches.
• Analytical, problem-solving and an effective communicator; leveraging technology and subject matter expertise in the business to accelerate our roadmap.
• Able to document business insight clearly, in plain English, making knowledge easily transferable to the wider team.
• Confident in presenting analysis, recommendations and strategy to senior stakeholders
• Highly collaborative in work style
• Curious and inquisitive
• Willing to step outside your comfort zone to broaden your skills and learn new technologies

Benefits

• Welcoming, supportive and fun environment
• 25 days Holiday

• Workplace pension scheme (after probationary period)
• Flexible working
• Personalised training program to develop technical, media and career competencies
• BUPA Employee Assistance Programme
• Bike to Work Scheme

Apply below and I will be in touch to discuss the company, the role and opportunity with you further. 

The Digital Recruitment Company is an Employment Business for interim, contract and temporary recruitment and acts as an Employment Agency in relation to permanent vacancies.
 
To apply for this role please contact us at:   
Mags Rendle 
0203 640 2133 
mags@digitalrecruitmentcompany.com
 
www.digitalrecruitmentcompany.com