Job Title: BI Platform Engineer

Salary Range: £70,929 - £78,810

Location: Bristol

Hours: Full-time – 35 hours per week

Working Pattern: Hybrid, with at least two days per week spent at our Bristol office.

About this opportunity

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

The role involves BI Platform Engineering, including Design, Build, Implementation, Scale-Out, and Support of our strategic BI Applications and related Products, Features, Patterns/Blueprints, Best Practices, and Operating Models.

You will work closely with teams like Networking, Security, Architecture, and Cloud Services, and demonstrate experience with Software Engineering Principles and common challenges.

Responsibilities

• Connectivity between our BI Applications and various on-premise and cloud data sources.
• Self-Service capabilities to all BI personas.
• Conversational Analytics through Natural Language Query interfaces.
• Data Agents for BI
• BI Marketplace
• BI Semantic / Knowledge Layer
• Simplifying our BI Estate.

About the Team

We're a dynamic and diverse lab, with a reputation for delivery at pace, innovating, and challenging the status quo. Our BI Products aim to unlock the potential of our rich data through innovative Self-Serve solutions.

Requirements

• Skilled in Cloud BI Platforms like PowerBI and Looker.
• Relevant Cloud certification or demonstrate platform engineering skills related to PowerBI, Fabric, Looker, or GCP.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Curation components for PowerBI and/or Looker.
• Comfortable engaging in platform design, remediation, or problem-solving discussions with other relevant enablement functions.
• Passion for the BI domain with an eye for innovation.
• Strong grasp of Software Development Principles, Route-to-Live for BI Content, and BI Platform development.
• Knowledge of golden paths for end-to-end BI Data Patterns.
• Ability to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical audiences.

What we offer

We offer a wide-ranging benefits package, including a generous pension contribution, annual performance-related bonus, share schemes, and wellbeing initiatives.

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• 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

We are committed to creating a values-led culture and building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all qualified candidates. We guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.