Senior BI Analyst

To strategically lead and support the Business Intelligence function, driving data-informed decision-making across the organisation. This role ensures the effective delivery and continuous evolution of BI solutions using Power BI, Databricks SQL, and PySpark; aligns analytics initiatives with business priorities; and provides expert guidance on modern data engineering, data warehousing, and BI best practices within a scalable Lakehouse architecture.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a team of analysts who facilitate business intelligence.
• Delivery and maintenance of the business intelligence program that will support and fulfil organisational priorities.
• Collaboratively and extensively investigating, analysing and interpreting business information needs based on a strong understanding of business processes, drivers and priorities.
• Working with senior management to develop goals, objectives, and strategies for improving business performance using BI tools.
• Ensure that the use of business intelligence applications using Power BI and Databricks (PySpark, SQL) enhances business decision-making capabilities.
• Providing high-level conceptual and technical expertise and understanding of data warehousing and business intelligence best practices.
• Monitoring industry trends to identify upcoming challenges or opportunities for the organisation.
• Manage subordinate staff in the day-to-day performance of their jobs.
• Working knowledge of using AI tools (Copilot, ChatGPT, Databricks Genie) to assist in SQL, DAX, Python, and BI development.
• Able to write effective prompts to accelerate analysis, automate tasks, and improve productivity in reporting and data engineering workflows.

Decision-Making Authority:

• Decisions made alone - Management/maintenance/bug fixes/stakeholder management.
• All items requiring key architectural calls, investments, or additional expense should be consulted with the manager and above.

Key Challenges:

• Provide approvals for dashboards going live.
• Authorise/Set Permissions of Power BI Dashboards for Users.
• Define users' roles in the Power BI PROD server.
• Define the developer's role in the Power PROD server.
• Actively participate in the hiring process for developers.

Skills

BI, Databricks, Power BI, PySpark, SQL, data warehousing