Lead Business Intelligence Developer (hybrid, Detroit)

Ilitch Charities, Inc.; Detroit, Northern (MI, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

401(k) with company match

Paid holidays and PTO

Disability and adoption benefits

Job summary

Little Caesars Enterprises, Inc. is seeking a Lead BI Developer, Global Business Intelligence to drive enterprise BI strategy and delivery. You will partner with executives and operators to translate business needs into robust dashboards and analytics, enabling data-driven decisions across the organization.

You will mentor the BI team, guide Agile delivery, and help shape the BI roadmap, aiming for scalable, secure, and measurable business outcomes in a Detroit‑based, office‑centric environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, engineering, or a related field.
• Seven (7) or more years of experience developing data‑driven KPIs, business intelligence, and analytics within mid‑sized or large organizations.
• Advanced experience designing enterprise‑scale BI dashboards (e.g., Power BI or similar platforms) incorporating advanced functionality and UX/UI.
• Advanced SQL skills to extract, analyze, and manage large datasets for BI, analytics, and ad‑hoc reporting.
• Demonstrated experience delivering production‑ready BI solutions.
• Demonstrated capability to engage and partner with leaders to understand business challenges and address them through BI and analytics.

Responsibilities

• Define BI goals, KPIs, success measures, and reporting requirements with business stakeholders.
• Translate business goals, operational needs, and data sources into scalable BI solutions.
• Design, develop, and deliver recurring and ad‑hoc dashboards, reports, and analytics.
• Partner with Data Engineering to ensure BI solutions are efficient, secure, scalable, and cost‑effective.
• Mentor BI developers in analytics practices, BI technologies, Agile delivery, estimation, and stakeholder engagement.
• Develop strategies to educate business users on how to effectively use recurring BI reports and dashboards.
• Lead discussions and prioritization of BI requests within assigned business units and manage stakeholder relationships.
• Act as a BI thought leader, improving analytics capabilities across the enterprise.
• Deliver large, complex system components and lead medium‑sized projects with on‑time delivery.

Skills

BI leadership

Power BI

SQL

Stakeholder engagement

Analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/tech/engineering

Tools

Agile

Job description

Build a Bigger, Better, Bolder Future: Imagine working for a company that measures its success based off the growth of its colleagues, a company that invests in its future by investing in you. Little Caesars is a company where our colleagues make an impact.

Your Mission:

The Lead Business Intelligence Developer, Global Business Intelligence will support a broad array of business stakeholders and partner with technology leaders to support the development and deployment of LCE/IHI enterprise-wide business intelligence. The role will support the Manager of Business Intelligence in creating enterprise BI that enables executives, leaders, and operators to make data driven decisions. This position will be active in building a roadmap to drive the future state, as well as making that future state a reality. The company is clear and committed to the “what” – enabling data driven decisioning, as well as the “why” - to make a great company even better- and is looking to the Lead BI Developer, Global Business Intelligence to help shape the “how”. This role will build on the existing foundation of Business Intelligence by increasing the focus on stakeholder engagement and the delivery of essential BI/KPIs and critical reporting. This role reports to the Manager, Global Business Intelligence who is a member of the leadership team of the Global Data and Analytics COE.

How You’ll Make an Impact:

• Provide direction and act individually to engage business leaders, decision makers, systems and data owners, and end users to define BI goals, KPIs, success measures, and reporting requirements.
• Provide direction and act individually to translate business goals, operational needs, and available data sources into scalable, actionable BI solutions.
• Provide direction and act individually to design, develop, and deliver recurring and ad-hoc dashboards, reports, and analytics supporting enterprise and business unit goals.
• Partner with Data Engineering to ensure BI solutions are efficient, reliable, secure, scalable, and cost-effective, building out the BI suite over time.
• Mentor BI developers in analytics practices, BI technologies, Agile delivery, estimation, and stakeholder engagement.
• Develop strategies to educate business users on how to effectively use recurring BI reports and dashboards.
• Lead discussion and prioritization of BI requests within assigned business units and manage ongoing stakeholder relationships.
• Act as a BI thought leader, continuously improving business intelligence and analytics capabilities across the enterprise.
• Responsible for the individual delivery of large, complex system components.
• Lead Medium-sized projects (up to 52 FTE weeks) being responsible for technical quality, on‑time delivery and performance of other technical resources on the project.
• Lead other developers in creating BI deliverables using formal software development methodologies such as Agile, including leading estimation, planning sessions, and project kick‑offs.
• Provide technical leadership on the delivery of large, complex system components and lead medium‑sized projects, ensuring technical quality, on‑time delivery, and performance of assigned technical resources.
• Support Quality Assurance (QA) in the development of integration test plans, test conditions, expected results, and automated testing.
• Lead research and identification of root causes for system issues and provide recommendations, including evaluation of alternatives and participation in vendor selection processes.
• Mentor others and implement best practices on technical tasks which support the overall BI development team.
• Lead the design and architecture of medium‑sized software projects with a focus on stability, scalability, security, and maintainability.
• Provide support for production BI applications, including on‑call after‑hours support on a rotational basis, and maintain support documentation.
• May manage a team of more junior developers, including day‑to‑day management, performance reviews, regular one‑on‑one sessions, and career development mentoring.

Who You Are:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, technology, engineering, or a related field.
• Seven (7) or more years of experience developing data‑driven KPIs, business intelligence, and analytics within mid‑sized or large organizations.
• Advanced experience designing enterprise‑scale BI dashboards (e.g., Power BI or similar platforms) incorporating advanced functionality and UX/UI.
• Advanced SQL skills to extract, analyze, and manage large datasets for BI, analytics, and ad‑hoc reporting.
• Demonstrated experience delivering production‑ready BI solutions.
• Demonstrated capability to engage and partner with leaders to understand business challenges and address them through BI and analytics.

Where You’ll Work:

• This position requires on‑call responsibilities, including nights, weekends, or holidays.
• Minimal travel to vendor locations, stores, company facilities, data centers, or industry events.
• Primarily office‑based role involving extended periods of sitting, virtual meetings, and computer‑based work.

All items listed above are illustrative and not comprehensive. They are not contractual in nature and are subject to change at the discretion of Little Caesars Enterprises Inc.

Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual’s race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law. The Company will strive to provide reasonable accommodations to permit qualified applicants who have a need for an accommodation to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a job interview) if so requested. This company participates in E‑Verify.

At Little Caesars® Pizza and Blue Line Foodservice Distribution ®, you’re part of a dynamic team in the pizza business. Known for innovation and home of the exclusive Pizza Portal® pickup, Little Caesars is an international brand with a household name – a global company with family‑owned restaurants in your neighborhood. Blue Line® sources and delivers ingredients to neighborhoods throughout the U.S. so we can make our famous Hot‑N‑Ready® pizzas, Crazy Bread®, Caesar Wings®, and more, fulfilling our customer promise. Little Caesars Fundraising proudly helps raise millions of dollars for thousands of schools, churches, sports teams, and other nonprofit organizations. Backed by the global pizza brand, customers of Little Caesars Fundraising enjoy products they can make at home or pick up in stores. Our colleagues are the heart and soul of the business – whether you work in the stores, one of our warehouses, the corporate office, or your home office, Little Caesars, Blue Line and Little Caesars Fundraising colleagues work together to make a big impact in communities around the world.

• Full time colleagues qualify for a variety of benefits, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) with company match, paid holidays and paid time off, legal and counseling services, flexible spending accounts, disability and adoption benefits, and more.
• Colleagues also enjoy the perks of being associated with professional sports teams and have access to events at Little Caesars Arena and Comerica Park in our hometown of Detroit, Michigan.