BI Platform Engineer

JOB TITLE: BI Platform Engineer

SALARY: From £70,929 dependent on experience and location

LOCATION: London or Bristol

HOURS:  Full time  

WORKING PATTERN: Hybrid, 40% (or two days) in an office location listed above

About this opportunity

Join our Analytics & AI Platform - the hub for enabling Analytics & AI within the organisation. This role sits within the Business Intelligence as a Service (BIaaS) lab, an enablement function focused on delivering our vision for the future of BI.

The keyword being "enablement", therefore this role is NOT about developing BI Visualisations / Reports / Analytics, but about the Design, Build, Implementation, Scale-Out and Support of our strategic BI Application’s Products, Features, End-to-End Patterns/Blueprints, Best Practices, Ways of Working and Operating Models for success.

You will work in a Feature Team within the BIaaS lab, together with a Product Owner and other multi-skilled Engineers, with a clear Vision, Key Results and Objectives ranging across:

• Enabling BI Developers to create BI Content.

• Enabling Business Users to consume BI Content.

• Enabling all users to quickly and intuitively create or consume insights through Self-Service Natural Language Query interfaces.

• Aligning with our Cloud-Native vision.

• Simplifying our BI Estate.

About the Team

We are a dynamic and diverse lab, with a reputation of delivery at pace, innovating and challenging the status quo. The lab consists of five Feature Teams spread across three locations, committed to fostering Collaboration, Psychological Safety, Accountability, Healthy Conflict, Commitment, and a deep attention to our Vision and Objectives. Our BI Products aim to unlock the potential of our rich data through innovative Self-Serve solutions - a "BI Marketplace" (think Amazon for BI). We build, scale, maintain, and monitor capabilities within our strategic BI Platforms while evaluating and developing innovative future offerings (think ChatGPT for BI). We are embarking on building a Semantic Data Layer to enable a single source of truth and to power Conversational BI. We will also be building BI Simplification capabilities (think BI Model/Metadata Accelerators).

What you’ll need

• You are highly skilled in Cloud BI Platforms like Looker, LookML and PowerBI.

• You hold a relevant Cloud certification or can demonstrate platform engineering skills related to Looker, LookML, GCP, PowerBI, Fabric, etc.

• Preferably, you have hands-on experience with Cloud Curation components for Looker and/or PowerBI (e.g. Terraform, IAM, Harness, K8S, DNS Configuration, TLS certificates, Load balancers, etc.)

• You are comfortable engaging in platform design, remediation, or problem-solving discussions with other relevant enablement functions like Architecture, Networking, Security, etc.

• Preferably, you have some experience of Tableau running on Linux.

• You are passionate about the BI domain with an eye for innovation.

• You have a strong grasp of Route-to-Live for BI Content and BI Platform development.

• You have a strong grasp of golden paths for end-to-end BI Data Patterns.

• You have an aptitude for problem-solving and use this approach to produce simple and effective solutions.

• You can communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences and demonstrate a restless curiosity while actively investigating new approaches.

• You balance being Customer-focused and Platform-focused - by meeting the needs of Customers and Product Owners, while focusing on Platform performance, reuse, and minimising technical debt.

About working for us

Our focus is to ensure we're inclusive every day, building an organisation that reflects modern society and celebrates diversity in all its forms. We want our people to feel that they belong and can be their best, regardless of background, identity or culture.  We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer initiative. And it’s why we especially welcome applications from under-represented groups. We’re disability confident. So, if you’d like reasonable adjustments to be made to our recruitment processes, just let us know. 

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15% 

• An annual bonus award, subject to Group performance  

• Share schemes including free shares 

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top 

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies 

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you!