Senior Business Intelligence (BI) Engineer

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Senior BI Engineer

Location: Hybrid Durrington
Hours: 37 hours per week
Contract: Permanent
Salary: Competitive benefits

Who are we

Southern Water is building a modern trusted data platform to support better decisionmaking regulatory performance and customer outcomes. Our Business Intelligence teams play a critical role in turning complex data into clear actionable insight across the organisation.

The role

As a Senior BI Engineer you will play a leading and strategic role in designing and delivering enterprisegrade business intelligence solutions. Youll take ownership of the semantic layer and advanced Power BI reporting within a domainaligned agile squad ensuring that solutions are scalable performant secure and wellgoverned.

Working closely with the Platform Lead Data Modellers and a wide range of stakeholders youll translate complex business requirements into robust technical solutions validate architectural designs and champion high standards of data quality reliability and costeffective delivery.

In addition to technical leadership this role includes line management and crossmatrix leadership responsibilities where you will mentor BI Engineers grow capability across squads and help build a strong BI engineering community.

What youll be doing

• Designing building and maintaining the enterprise semantic layer for highperformance reporting and analytics

• Leading the delivery of a performance management framework with certified metrics and a single version of the truth

• Developing and optimising Power BI datasets and reports applying advanced performance security and usability best practices

• Implementing rowlevel security and access controls to protect sensitive data

• Partnering with Data Modellers and Engineers to translate complex requirements into scalable technical solutions

• Prototyping and validating designs using Databricks (SQL Python PySpark)

• Establishing scalable BI build release and deployment processes including monitoring and issue resolution

• Embedding data governance data quality and compliance standards into BI solutions

• Managing and mentoring BI Engineers supporting skills development and career growth

• Promoting knowledge sharing best practice and continuous improvement across the BI community

• Actively contributing to agile ceremonies and driving iterative delivery and innovation

What were looking for

Were looking for an experienced BI professional who combines strong technical expertise with the ability to lead influence and mentor others.

Youll have:

• 5 years experience in BI data engineering or analytics roles

• Experience managing or leading technical delivery and resources

• Advanced experience with Power BI including semantic modelling and performance tuning

• Strong handson experience with Databricks (SQL Python PySpark)

• Excellent understanding of data quality governance and security

• Experience working with modern data platforms including Azure Data Lake and Delta Lake

• Strong background in data warehousing reporting and analytics

• Experience with relational and dimensional data modelling

• Ability to gather document and translate business requirements into highvalue BI solutions

• Confidence using agile delivery methods and tools such as Jira and Confluence

• Excellent communication stakeholder management and mentoring skills

• A proactive selfmanaging approach and a passion for improving how BI is delivered at scale

Technical knowledge (desirable)

• Azure data services including Azure Data Lake ADF and serverless functions

• Power Query (M) and DAX

• REST APIs and data integration

• Metadata lineage management and data cataloguing

• Performance tuning and optimisation techniques

• Experience with domainoriented or data mesh architectures

Qualifications

Essential

• Microsoft Certified: Power BI Data Analyst Associate

• Databricks Certified Data Engineer

Desirable

• Degree in Computer Science Data Engineering or a related discipline

• Experience in data governance or data privacy roles

• Scrum Master certification or equivalent leadership experience

Why join us

• Play a key leadership role in Southern Waters data and analytics transformation

• Shape how enterprise BI is delivered across the organisation

• Work with modern cloudbased data and BI technologies

• Hybrid and flexible working

• Competitive salary pension bonus and a comprehensive benefits package