Analytics Team Lead

RECRUITERS; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 100,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

RECRUITERS is assisting a leading global financial services organisation in Dublin to recruit a CFS Analytics Team Lead. This role combines hands-on BI development with people leadership, guiding a distributed team while shaping architecture, data governance and technology strategy.

You will deliver enterprise BI and analytics using Qlik Sense, Power BI/Microsoft Fabric and Databricks, mentor BI developers across regions, and drive AI-assisted BI within governance.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and mentoring technical/BI development teams.
• 5+ years' experience developing BI solutions, queries and database objects.
• Strong hands-on experience with modern BI and analytics platforms (Power BI, Microsoft Fabric, Qlik Sense).
• 5+ years' experience with cloud technologies (AWS, Azure and/or GCP).
• Experience delivering complex enterprise data solutions and working with Databricks.
• Strong understanding of ELT/ETL principles and AI/ML implementation patterns.
• Experience implementing data governance frameworks and BI development standards.
• Experience with Git, Agile delivery and API development/integration.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills across technical and business teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of enterprise BI and analytics solutions using Qlik Sense, Power BI/Microsoft Fabric and Databricks.
• Manage, mentor and develop a distributed team of BI developers across multiple regions.
• Remain hands-on with solution architecture and complex data solutions.
• Define and enforce BI development, administration and data governance standards.
• Design effective integration patterns between Databricks and BI semantic layers.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Cloud and business stakeholders.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted BI development within governance standards.
• Evaluate emerging technologies to improve the analytics platform.

Skills

BI leadership

BI development

ELT/ETL concepts

Communication

Analytical thinking

Tools

Power BI

Microsoft Fabric

Qlik Sense

Databricks

AWS

Azure

GCP

Git

APIs

Job description

€100,000–€110,000 Base + Bonus + Benefits | Hybrid in city center 3 times a week

Our client, a leading global financial services organisation, is looking for a CFS Analytics Team Lead to provide both technical and people leadership across its Business Intelligence and Analytics platforms.

This is a hands‑on leadership opportunity where you’ll manage a distributed team of BI developers while remaining closely involved in solution architecture, data governance and technology strategy. You’ll help shape scalable analytics solutions as part of a wider enterprise data transformation.

What You'll Be Doing

• Lead the delivery of enterprise BI and analytics solutions using Qlik Sense, Power BI/Microsoft Fabric and Databricks.
• Manage, mentor and develop a distributed team of BI developers across multiple regions.
• Remain hands‑on with solution architecture and complex data solutions.
• Define and enforce BI development, administration and data governance standards.
• Design effective integration patterns between Databricks and BI semantic layers.
• Partner with Data Engineering, Cloud and business stakeholders.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted BI development within appropriate governance standards.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and identify opportunities to improve the analytics platform.

Must-Haves

• Proven experience leading and mentoring technical/BI development teams.
• 5+ years' experience developing BI solutions, queries and database objects using RDBMS technologies.
• Strong hands‑on experience with modern BI and analytics platforms, including technologies such as Power BI/Microsoft Fabric and Qlik Sense.
• 5+ years' experience with cloud technologies, including AWS, Azure and/or GCP.
• Experience delivering complex enterprise data solutions and working with Databricks.
• Strong understanding of ELT/ETL principles and AI/ML implementation patterns.
• Experience implementing data governance frameworks and BI development standards.
• Experience with Git, Agile delivery and API development/integration.
• Strong solution architecture, analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work across technical and business teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with AWS services including S3, RDS, Lambda, API Gateway, SQS, IAM and CloudFormation.
• Financial services industry experience.
• Experience using AI coding assistants, such as Kiro, Amazon Q or GitHub Copilot.
• Strong technical documentation experience.
• Experience introducing emerging technologies into enterprise environments.