Senior BI Lead - Dashboards, Data Strategy

iDbase Software; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

iDbase Software is seeking a Senior BI Lead to act as the senior technical authority for BI, setting best practices, standards, and design principles across the BI estate.

You will coordinate and guide a small team of BI Analysts, owning and delivering complex dashboards, reports, and data models, and partnering with stakeholders to prioritise BI initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Act as the senior technical authority for BI, setting best practices, standards, and design principles across the BI estate.

Job description

Key Responsibilities

• Act as the senior technical authority for BI, setting best practices, standards, and design principles across the BI estate.

• Coordinate and guide a small team of BI Analysts, balancing hands-on delivery with review, mentoring, and technical direction.

• Remain an active contributor, owning and delivering complex, high-impact dashboards, reports, and data models.

• Review and assure BI outputs to ensure they meet agreed standards for accuracy, performance, usability, and consistency.

• Facilitate effective ways of working across the BI team, including prioritization, estimation, and delivery cadence.

• Support skills development and knowledge sharing to uplift overall team capability.

• Own the end-to-end delivery of BI solutions, from requirement definition through to deployment and ongoing enhancement.

• Partner closely with investment, risk, finance, and operations stakeholders to prioritize BI initiatives and manage demand.

• Translate complex business requirements into scalable, well-designed BI solutions.

• Act as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, using data and insights to influence decision-making.

• Oversee the design, build, and maintenance of dashboards and reports covering portfolio performance, cash flows, risk, and credit metrics.

• Drive standardization and reusability of reports, data models, and metrics across the organization.

• Ensure high levels of data accuracy, consistency, and transparency in all BI outputs.

• Champion automation of recurring reporting to improve efficiency and reduce operational risk.

• Work closely with IT and data engineering teams to shape data models, pipelines, and BI architecture.

• Define and enforce BI best practices, including data modelling standards, naming conventions, and documentation.

• Identify opportunities to improve BI tooling, processes, and performance.

• Stay abreast of developments in BI tools, analytics techniques, and data visualisation best practices, and apply them pragmatically.