Senior Power BI & Analytics Leader

Rail Delivery Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 52,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Rail travel discount 75%

International rail discounts

Annual leave 30 days

Personal development days

Season ticket loan

Family leave

Pension contribution

Private medical insurance

Flexible benefits portal

Flexible working

Job summary

Rail Delivery Group (RDG) is seeking a senior analytics lead to own the day-to-day development of the BI capability and to drive the adoption of Power BI across the organisation. You will shape governance, standards, and an operating model while delivering trusted analytical products and self-service capabilities.

The role requires strong SQL and data modelling skills, experience in complex datasets, and the ability to translate business requirements into practical reporting solutions.

Qualifications

• Proven experience delivering analytical projects that support business performance and decision-making.
• Strong experience developing and governing Power BI reporting environments, including dashboards, reports and self-service analytics capabilities.
• Strong experience designing semantic models and reusable data products that support consistent reporting and trusted organisational metrics.
• Strong SQL and data analysis skills, with experience working with complex datasets.
• Experience translating business requirements into practical reporting and analytical solutions.
• Ability to communicate complex findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience engaging with stakeholders and building effective working relationships.
• Demonstrable experience identifying opportunities for improvement, automation and transformation through data.
• Experience of line managing analysts, including coaching, workload prioritisation, performance management and capability development.
• Experience working with senior stakeholders, external suppliers, partners or industry bodies to deliver analytical outcomes.
• Experience working with notebook-based analytics, data modelling or modern cloud data platforms, ideally within an AWS environment; (nice-to-have).
• Experience supporting reporting migrations, including the transition of reporting content between platforms such as Tableau and Power BI, or wider analytics transformation programmes; (nice-to-have).
• Experience working in regulated, operational or infrastructure-focused industries; (nice-to-have).
• Interest in emerging analytics technologies and willingness to learn new tools and ways of working within a cloud-based analytics environment.

Responsibilities

• Be accountable for the day-to-day development and continuous improvement of RDG's Business Intelligence capability, ensuring analytical products meet organisational needs and deliver measurable value
• Lead the development of RDG's Power BI capability, shaping its roadmap, governance, standards, operating model and adoption across the organisation, while promoting best practice and ensuring trusted, well-managed analytical products
• Provide analytical support across RDG programmes and projects, applying data and evidence to support decision-making, business case development, performance monitoring, benefits realisation and industry assurance activities
• Champion the adoption of Power BI across RDG through training, coaching, guidance and the development of best practice, helping build organisational capability and confidence in self-service analytics
• Produce semantic models, self-service dashboards and analytical products that enable stakeholders to explore and draw conclusions from trusted data, applying strong analytical, data-modelling and visualisation practices
• Independently identify and deliver transformation initiatives that reduce manual workload, improve productivity and increase the value derived from data across RDG
• Manage and develop two direct reports and a part-time contractor, including workload prioritisation, performance management, coaching and capability development
• Proactively present recommendations, analysis and evidence-based insights to internal colleagues, industry partners and external stakeholders to support informed decision-making

Skills

Power BI

SQL

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Team leadership

Data modelling

Cloud data platforms

Reporting migrations

Regulated industries

Notebook analytics

Job description

Rail Delivery Group (RDG) is seeking a senior analytics lead to own the day-to-day development of the BI capability and to drive the adoption of Power BI across the organisation. You will shape governance, standards, and an operating model while delivering trusted analytical products and self-service capabilities.

The role requires strong SQL and data modelling skills, experience in complex datasets, and the ability to translate business requirements into practical reporting solutions.