BI Developer [L1]

Alef Education; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Alef Education in Abu Dhabi is looking for a Business Intelligence Developer who thrives in a fast-paced Agile IT environment. The role involves providing technical leadership and developing complex reports and dashboards using Tableau.

The ideal candidate will have a degree in Computer Science, a minimum of 3 years of experience in BI, and strong SQL skills. Communication skills and fluency in English are essential. Join Alef Education to contribute to data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in BI development.
• Recent experience in implementing complex data-visualization projects.
• Fluency in English is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership within development and operations.
• Design and deploy complex reports and dashboards using Tableau.
• Conduct business analysis initiatives including requirement gathering.

Skills

Tableau expertise

SQL skills

Data visualization best practices

Business analytics

Communication skills

Python basics

Education

Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

Tools

Tableau Desktop

Tableau Server

AWS or similar cloud platforms

Job description

We are looking for a Business Intelligence Developer who thrives in a fast‑paced Agile IT environment and is passionate about exploring new BI technologies to drive data‑driven decisions.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership within development and operations.
• Take technical authority in cross‑departmental meetings, evaluate proposals from suppliers, and implement recommendations.
• Lead hands‑on development, operation and continuous improvement of services.
• Collaborate with the wider team to deliver high‑quality code, services and dashboards aligned with project goals and delivery cycles.
• Work with product managers to understand user needs for existing and new services, and support them.
• Conduct business analysis initiatives, including requirement gathering, stakeholder management and solution definition.
• Design, develop, test and deploy complex interactive reports and dashboards using Tableau.
• Support production BI reporting for senior stakeholders and board members.
• Implement and query databases/datastores as per the BI design, writing SQL or NoSQL queries.
• Develop, enhance and maintain reports, dashboards and data models.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to prototype, evaluate technical options, write tests, code and documentation.
• Advise on best practices, assist in budgeting and manage the BI team, providing feedback and performance management.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field (preferred).
• Minimum 3 years of relevant experience.
• Recent experience designing and implementing complex data‑visualization projects.
• Experience with report development, business analytics, and BI tools and technologies.
• Knowledge of Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server, including live and extracted data sources.
• Ability to design efficient data models.
• Basic knowledge of Python, Airflow or ELT workflows.
• In‑depth knowledge of data‑visualization best practices and interfacing Tableau with external data sources.
• Experience with cloud‑based BI/data‑analytics solutions (Tableau, etc.).
• Strong SQL skills and ability to write queries for databases or data stores.
• Exposure to AWS or similar cloud platforms.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Fluency in English.