Senior BI Developer

The Senior BI developer position in the Business Intelligence team plays a leading key role in developing, supporting, and enhancing operational reporting using Cognos Analytics and Power BI.

Join us at Greene King the country's leading pub company and brewer, where our mission is to pour happiness into lives and become the pride of great British hospitality. We have something special, deeply rooted in our 220-year brewing and pub history, creating the business we are proudly known for today. Still today our 39,000 strong team are the guardians of what’s wholly British, the pub experience.  

We’re all about rewarding our team’s hard work, that’s why…

You’ll receive a competitive salary, pension contribution as well as:

• The chance to further your career across our well-known brands – as one of the industry's top apprenticeship providers, we can provide training and development at each level of your career. 
• Discount of 33% for you and 15% for your loved ones on all of our brands – so you enjoy your favourite food and drink at a discount.
• Free employee assistance program – mental health, well-being, financial, and legal support because you matter!
• Discount of 50% for you and 25% for your loved ones at our Greene King Inns and hotels. – so you can enjoy a weekend away without breaking the bank.
• Refer a friend – who do you know who could be interested in a new role? When they are placed, you could earn £1,500 for referring them!
• Wagestream – access your wage before payday for when life happens.
• Retail discounts – Receive up to 30% off at Superdrug, exclusive discounts with three mobile along with many more…

Your role as Senior BI Developer

• Gathering business requirements and writing technical specifications.  As a Senior Developer you will be expected to work with colleagues of more seniority delivering high profile reporting.
• Improving, and amending existing reports, including being on a rota for user support queries.  
• Work with business users to design and develop well-presented insightful reports with interactive, slice-and-dice and drill-through options, providing the business with actionable information.
• Initiating and maintaining a consistent theme and delivery method across the reporting suite.
• Maintain and develop new and existing data models using best practise, with a focus on optimisation to drive performance and efficiency improvements.
• Preparing and maintaining relevant documentation including report documentation and user guides.
• Implement RLS as well as administer user security and maintain the Cognos BI Portal/Power BI Workspaces
• Support and train end users including presenting at training sessions as required.
• Working with the BI Managers to help shape the strategy for improved reporting and enhanced data visibility whilst assisting in mentoring the BI Developers and peer reviewing colleague’s work.

What you’ll bring… 

• Strong experience of report design and development with multiple BI tools, preferably including both Cognos and Power BI
• Hands on experience with Cognos 11/12, including Framework Manager, Reports, and Dashboards.
• Experience of semantic model and report development in Power BI including the use of dataflows
• Sound knowledge of M Query and DAX or other programming skills
• Ability to collaborate with infrastructure, data warehouse and business analyst resources, and clearly communicate solutions to both technical and non-technical team members.
• Good understanding of BI/Data Warehouse concepts, including star schemas.
• Experience of database querying including good T-SQL skills
• Strong Microsoft Office skills
• Experience in the full development lifecycle working across Development, Test and Production environments including the use of version control solutions.