Developer – Business Intelligence Systems

This is an excellent opportunity to join a rapidly expanding Business Intelligence Systems team working with a great mix of experience both inside Next and across the industry. BIS is transforming from a traditional SQL team to a modern hybrid cloud platform bringing together the best data, analytical and reporting tools to deliver new and enhance existing products and support our users.

About the team

This position is within the BIS Finance Workstream, where our primary responsibility is to complete projects for Next Finance.. Our focus lies in technologies such as Azure, Databricks, Power BI, and ADF. We actively explore and adopt new technologies to innovate and enhance our processes. We are a growing team of 50+ developers, analysts and product managers responsible for providing the business with data solutions. 

Put simply. We are the oil in the machine! We take data from everywhere and convert it, merge it, model it and present it in a usable format for consumption. We have more touch points in the organisation than any other product development team. The business relies on BIS data and BIS systems to understand how it is performing, to identify opportunities to improve and to  help shape and refine proposals to realise those opportunities. 

About the role

As a developer you will be working in a product team developing solutions to help fulfil the business’ needs, which can include providing new data for them to access that we obtain from a variety of sources or enhancing the way we work to deliver better results. 

 BIS supports over 70 BI products today and we are always building more. The product teams work with the business / product owners to define the product development roadmap eventually decommissioning old solutions and replacing them with newer more performant and scalable solutions that will meet the growing needs of the business for years to come.

We are looking for all levels of experience from new developers just starting out on their BI career to those who have a number of years knowledge of how to get things done. 

We are also looking for a diverse skill set. While our legacy platform is SQL which will play a huge part in our product base for years to come we are also rapidly expanding our modern data platform so we are seeking developers who have experience in tools such as DataBricks (Spark), Data Factory, Data Lake, PowerBI and Synapse.

We are looking for people who want to learn new skills, get hands-on experience with the latest technologies and become very knowledgeable of BIS’ systems. Successful candidates will join a great team with a real mix of experience, knowledge and skills. There are great opportunities to learn and a real potential to advance your career.

Criteria

Essential

• Able to speak, read and write English at a level that enables you to complete your role, for example, to understand instructions and communicate effectively with stakeholders and/or other team members
• Experienced in effectively working in a collaborative manner in a large scale, fast paced environment within a multifunctional technical team
• Languages: SQL
• Data Platform: SQL Server RDBMS or Data Lake
• ETL: SQL Server Integration Services or Data Bricks or Synapse or Azure Data Factory

Desirable

• Languages: Python, PySQL, C#, R
• Data Platform: SQL 2012 up to Azure SQL MI / DB
• Reporting: PowerBI or similar e.g. SQL Server Reporting Services
• Modelling: SQL Server SSAS Multidimensional (MDX) / Tabular (DAX) / Dimensional Modelling / Data Warehousing
• Development Management: TFS / Azure DevOps / GIT Hub
• Azure – Data Lake, Data Factory, Data Bricks (Spark), SQL MI / DB
• ETL: Active Batch, API, Event Hub, Kafka
• AI / ML
   

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