Senior Business Intelligence Developer

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust; Ashford; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Senior Business Intelligence Developer to provide technical leadership within our BI team. You will drive the design, development and maintenance of the data warehouse and BI infrastructure, including trusted data sources and Power BI semantic models.

The role offers a hybrid working pattern with an office day on average per week. You will work with clinical, workforce and corporate systems, ensuring data quality, performance and

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent relevant experience.
• Degree in Health Informatics, Computer Studies or Mathematics.
• Microsoft SQL Server certification.
• Certification in BI tools.
• Evidence of ongoing leadership training and development.

Responsibilities

• Manage technical BI projects from development through to implementation.
• Provide technical guidance and knowledge transfer to developers and analysts.
• Maintain effective documentation and governance for BI solutions.
• Collaborate with clinical, operational and corporate colleagues, system suppliers and external partners to deliver reliable BI solutions.

Skills

Attention to detail

T-SQL

Project management

Mental health processes

Education

Degree in Health Informatics / Computer Studies / Mathematics

Microsoft SQL Server certification

BI tools certification

Leadership training

Tools

Python

Power BI

SSIS

SSRS

SSAS

APIs

VB.Net

Job description

We are looking for an experienced and forward-thinking Senior Business Intelligence Developer to provide technical leadership within our Business Intelligence team. You will help ensure that the Trust's data is secure, accurate, timely and ready to support reporting, analysis, national submissions and informed decision-making, contributing to improved services, productivity and patient care. The team has a hybrid working pattern with an expectation to work from our office base 1 day per week on average. We are serious about diversity and inclusion, and we are working hard to build this into our DNA. We warmly welcome applications for any of our roles from people from diverse backgrounds, and we are proactively encouraging applications from under-represented communities for our more senior roles, like this one. Please note that we are unable to offer Visa sponsorship for this vacancy.

Main duties of the job

You will lead the design, development and maintenance of the Trust's data warehouse and wider BI infrastructure, including trusted data sources, Power BI semantic models, data gateways and automated ETL processes. You must have experience using technologies such as SQL Server, T-SQL, Python, SSIS, SSRS and APIs, as you will be expected to use those to integrate information from clinical, workforce, and other corporate systems, while improving data quality, system performance and reporting resilience.

About us

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway.

Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.

Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.

Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not just live with mental illness, but live well. It's why we're passionate about working with communities to make mental health care better for everyone. Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's working well together.

Job responsibilities

You will manage technical BI projects from development through to implementation, ensuring that agreed standards, timescales and quality requirements are met. You will provide technical guidance and knowledge transfer to developers and analysts, maintain effective documentation and governance, and work closely with clinical, operational and corporate colleagues, system suppliers and external partners to deliver reliable and reusable BI solutions.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent relevant experience.
• Relevant degree, for example Health Informatics, Computer Studies or Mathematics
• Microsoft SQL Server certification
• Certification in the use of Business Intelligence tools
• Evidence of ongoing leadership training and development

Knowledge and Skills

• High level of attention to detail, accuracy and quality assurance
• Advanced knowledge of T-SQL
• Knowledge of mental health trust processes, activities and services
• Knowledge of project management tools and concepts

Experience

• Significant experience developing Microsoft BI solutions, including SQL Server (2016 or later), SSIS, SSRS and SSAS
• Experience of writing Python scripts
• Experience querying data and developing reports or dashboards in Power BI or other BI tools
• Experience developing ETL routines and working with dimensional database design, management and reporting solutions
• Experience of data warehousing
• Experience working with APIs for secure and efficient exchange of information
• Experience of NHS datasets, performance requirements and information flows
• Experience of the Rio electronic patient record system
• Experience of R, and/or VBA
• Experience developing small applications (web or non-web) using VB.Net or similar to support data capture and presentation
• Experience of data set triangulation, identifying potential to link different database/data set sources

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.