Technical BI & Reporting Lead

Lloyds Bank plc; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 67,000 - 81,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension up to 15%

Annual bonus

Share schemes with free shares

30 days holiday + bank holidays

Job summary

Lloyds Banking Group in Bristol is seeking a Technical BI & Reporting Lead to head a globally distributed team delivering reporting and analytics using Power BI, SQL and cloud technologies.

You will shape the reporting strategy, manage backlog, and collaborate with business and technology teams while championing Agile practices in a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years' experience delivering reporting and analytics solutions using Power BI.
• Proven experience leading BI/analytics teams, including distributed teams.
• Strong SQL expertise across large data environments.
• Experience balancing BAU with strategic change delivery.
• Strong relationship-building and influencing skills, with ability to translate requirements into priorities.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments, including backlog ownership and planning.
• Experience using Jira/Confluence for Agile planning.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a globally distributed BI team, fostering collaboration and continuous improvement.
• Own and prioritise the BI & Reporting backlog, balancing business priorities and delivery to maximise value.
• Provide technical leadership across Power BI, SQL and cloud-based reporting solutions, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Build relationships across business and technology teams, translating requirements into delivery priorities.
• Champion Agile ways of working and drive planning and prioritisation across the team.

Skills

Power BI

SQL

Agile delivery

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Job Overview

End Date: Tuesday 29 September 2026

Salary Range: £0 - £0

We support flexible working – click here for more information on flexible working options

Flexible Working Options: Hybrid Working, Job Share

JOB TITLE: Technical BI & Reporting Lead

SALARY: £67,000 - £81,000

LOCATION: Bristol

HOURS: Full-Time

WORKING PATTERN: Our work style is hybrid, which involves spending at least two days per week, or 40% of our time, at one of our office sites. Colleagues with disabilities can be supported with workplace adjustments, including hybrid working expectations, in line with our Flexibility Works policy.

About This Opportunity

We're looking for a Technical BI & Reporting Lead to join the Client Experience & Data Platform within Corporate & Institutional Banking (CIB). You'll lead a globally distributed team responsible for delivering, supporting and evolving a significant portfolio of business-critical reporting and analytics solutions. Working across established services and strategic transformation initiatives, you'll provide technical leadership across Power BI, SQL and cloud-based analytics technologies, ensuring solutions remain scalable, reliable and aligned to business priorities. You'll support the ongoing evolution of a large reporting estate, helping to modernise legacy reporting solutions and drive the adoption of cloud-based analytics capabilities. As CIB continues to modernise its reporting and analytics estate, you'll help shape how data is used to support decision-making across the business while driving the adoption of modern, cloud-based analytics capabilities. Combining technical expertise, people leadership and delivery ownership, you'll shape reporting strategy, influence priorities across business and technology teams, and help drive the evolution of our analytics and reporting capability.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a globally distributed team of Business Intelligence engineers and analysts, fostering collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement.
• Own and prioritise the BI & Reporting backlog, balancing business priorities, strategic change and operational delivery to maximise value.
• Provide technical leadership across Power BI, SQL and cloud-based reporting solutions, acting as a subject matter expert, reviewing solution designs and promoting engineering best practice, scalability and performance.
• Build strong relationships across business and technology teams, translating requirements into clear delivery priorities and influencing decision-making.
• Champion Agile ways of working, driving effective planning, prioritisation and continuous improvement across the team.

What You’ll Need

• 5+ years' experience delivering reporting and analytics solutions using Power BI, with expert knowledge of reporting best practice, dashboard optimisation and performance improvement.
• Proven experience leading and developing Business Intelligence, reporting or analytics teams, including geographically distributed technical teams.
• Strong SQL expertise, with experience developing and supporting reporting solutions across large and complex data environments.
• Proven track record of balancing business-as-usual services with strategic change delivery.
• Strong relationship-building and influencing skills, with the ability to translate business requirements into clear delivery priorities.
• Experience working within Agile delivery environments, including backlog ownership, planning and prioritisation.
• Experience using Jira, Confluence or similar tools to support Agile delivery and team planning.

Desirable Skills & Experience

• Experience within Financial Services.
• Experience working within large-scale data transformation programmes.
• Understanding of data governance and reporting controls.
• Experience with Looker or other cloud-based BI and analytics platforms.

We know that great talent comes from many backgrounds. Whilst this job advert may reference specific years of experience, we recognise that skills are developed in many ways, so if you have relevant, transferable experience, we encourage you to apply.

This Is A Place For You

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities and we're committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns.

As a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

Benefits Package

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
• An annual performance-related bonus
• Share schemes including free shares
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping 30 days' holiday, plus bank holidays
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

At Lloyds Banking Group, we're driven by a clear purpose; to help Britain prosper. Across the Group, our colleagues are focused on making a difference to customers, businesses and communities. With us you'll have a key role to play in shaping the financial services of the future, whilst the scale and reach of our Group means you'll have many opportunities to learn, grow and develop. We keep your data safe. So, we'll only ever ask you to provide confidential or sensitive information once you have formally been invited along to an interview or accepted a verbal offer to join us which is when we run our background checks. We'll always explain what we need and why, with any request coming from a trusted Lloyds Banking Group person. We're focused on creating a values-led culture and are committed to building a workforce which reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. Together we’re building a truly inclusive workplace where all of our colleagues have the opportunity to make a real difference.