BI Lead

Harnham; Greater London; Remote; GBP 51,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote

Occasional travel to London/Birmingham

Job summary

Harnham is hiring a BI Lead to drive reporting and data modelling in a data-driven organisation. You will enhance Power BI dashboards, optimise data models, and support strategic projects with insights for a wide range of stakeholders.

The role sits in a collaborative Data & Analytics team; you'll translate requirements into scalable reports, contribute to governance and CI/CD processes, and help shape the analytics roadmap with senior leaders.

Qualifications

• Advanced SQL skills and data modelling experience.
• Experience writing and optimising DAX measures.
• Strong stakeholder management and requirements gathering abilities.
• Understanding of dimensional modelling and reporting best practices.
• Exposure to CI/CD processes and deployment tooling.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and maintain Power BI dashboards and reports.
• Work with semantic models and parameterised reporting solutions.
• Design and optimise data models to meet reporting needs.
• Translate stakeholder requirements into scalable reporting and analytics solutions.
• Support external and internal reporting products and governance processes.
• Collaborate with technical and non-technical stakeholders to improve data accessibility.
• Contribute to strategic data initiatives and new reporting projects.

Skills

Advanced SQL

DAX measures

Stakeholder management

Requirements gathering

Dimensional modelling

CI/CD understanding

Tools

Power BI

Azure DevOps

Databricks

Job description

This is an excellent opportunity for a BI Lead to join a data-driven organisation delivering impactful insight at scale. You'll play a key role in enhancing reporting capabilities, shaping data models, and supporting strategic projects that influence decision-making across a wide range of stakeholders.

The Company

They are a nationally recognised organisation that uses data, analytics, and digital innovation to support large-scale programmes and engagement initiatives. Their analytics function is investing heavily in modern data platforms and self-service reporting capabilities, creating a strong environment for BI professionals to make a tangible impact.

Working within a collaborative Data & Analytics team, you'll partner with engineers, analysts, business stakeholders, and senior leaders to deliver high-quality insights and reporting solutions.

The Role

As a BI Lead, you will focus on developing and optimising reporting solutions, improving data models, and supporting stakeholders across the organisation.

Key responsibilities include:

• Enhancing and maintaining existing Power BI dashboards and reports
• Working with semantic models and parameterised reporting solutions
• Designing and optimising data models to support business reporting requirements
• Translating stakeholder requirements into scalable reporting and analytics solutions
• Supporting external and internal reporting products
• Collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders to improve data accessibility
• Contributing to strategic data initiatives and new reporting projects
• Applying business analysis skills to understand reporting challenges and deliver effective solutions
• Supporting best practices across Power BI development, governance, and deployment processes

Your Skills & Experience

You will ideally have:

• Strong commercial experience with Power BI, including front-end development and back-end modelling
• Advanced SQL skills
• Experience writing and optimising DAX measures
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience gathering and translating business requirements
• Understanding of dimensional modelling approaches and reporting best practices
• Exposure to CI/CD processes, Azure DevOps, or similar deployment methodologies

Highly desirable experience includes:

• Kimball methodology
• Medallion architecture

Additional experience with Databricks, Databricks Genie, AI, or NLP technologies would be beneficial but is not essential.

What They Offer

• Salary of £60,000
• Fixed-term contract through to October 2027
• Fully remote working with occasional travel to London or Birmingham
• Opportunity to work on high-profile data and analytics initiatives
• Exposure to modern data platforms and advanced reporting environments
• Collaborative and supportive analytics team
• Strong visibility across the organisation with opportunities to influence reporting strategy