Power BI Developer

Company Overview

Offering a complete ecosystem of maritime services, including broking, finance, port services and research, Clarksons is at the heart of global shipping. Our unrivalled reach, expertise, and depth of experience, combined with leading research, enables us to partner with clients across every sector to meet the demands of the world’s rapidly evolving maritime, offshore, trade and energy markets. Building on our unique heritage and harnessing our insights to see further, faster, we work with our clients and communities to create strategies that have a positive impact on the industry and the world around us. Dedicated to excellence, it’s our people that drive success for our clients.

To understand more including day-to-day life at Clarksons, visit us at www.clarksons.com

Role Summary

Part of the Digital Transformation team, you will be helping us build the best shipping data platform and reporting, enabling us to provide accurate and timely insights to the business and our clients. PowerBI is our primary presentation layer and we are looking for a team player who can own the data visualization space and drive best practice across the business.

What you’ll be doing

• Plan, design and implement effective dashboards and visualisations to enhance and transform the business’ use of data.
• Analyse data models and datasets to draw meaningful and actionable insights to drive informed decision making.
• Capture, translate and document business and technical requirements to produce relevant data models and business intelligence solutions.
• Validate & profile data, perform ad-hoc data analysis and fulfil client data requests by crafting SQL queries.
• Proactively identify and capitalising on opportunities for the business to use data to improve processes and gain a competitive edge.
• Manage the relationship with technical and non-technical stakeholders and end-users.
• Own the end-to-end delivery of data & business intelligence initiatives

What we’re looking for

We invite applications from candidates who can demonstrate:

• Drive and self-motivation, with the desire and commitment to succeed, deliver excellence and make positive change;
• Relationship building, with excellent interpersonal skills and the ability to quickly build rapport;
• Collaboration, able to work well with others across diverse backgrounds to share information, develop skills, and deliver results;
• Resilience with the ability to persist and adapt;
• Smart problem-solving and analytical abilities, with a curious and inquisitive mind, and an openness to new ideas;
• Professional integrity and a respect for company values.

Other requirements

• Solid experience with MS Power BI & DAX.
• Solid experience in SQL for querying, analysis, and optimisation.
• Experience using Microsoft Development (Visual Studio) tools to develop and manage database & BI projects.
• Understanding of best practices to deliver compelling data visualisations & reports.
• Understanding of industry-standard data warehousing modelling techniques eg. Kimball, Snowflake etc.
• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders. Ability to translate technical and complex information into simple and accessible concepts and language.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and capable of successfully juggling multiple, competing priorities.
• Self-starter with a strong work ethic, driven and a desire to learn.
• Excellent attention to detail with a strong focus on accuracy.
• Ability to work to tight delivery timescales.
• Shipping Experience a plus