Reports Developer Team Lead

Report Developer Team Lead (Band 6)

About the Role:

You will be leading a cross-functional team of report developers using agile methodologies to build and deliver reporting solutions across multiple platforms including SSRS Power BI and Qlik Sense for the financial services industry. As a Team Lead you are expected to go beyond individual contribution by guiding mentoring and directing a group of developers to ensure consistent quality technical excellence and timely delivery. We are looking for a hands-on leader who champions collaboration drives innovation and takes ownership of the teams output end-to-end from report development and database design to deployment automation and platform evolution. The ideal candidate brings a decade of deep reporting experience consistently demonstrates a proactive mindset in identifying and adopting emerging technologies maintains a strong culture of documentation and collaborative tooling and leverages Python scripting to extend and enhance reporting capabilities across the team.

Job Duties in Brief:

• Lead and directa group of report developers providing technical guidance task delegation workload management and performance support
• Facilitate and actively contribute to all Agile ceremonies: Sprint Planning Daily Scrum Sprint Review Sprint Retrospective and Pair Programming sessions
• Serve as the primary technical escalation point for report development challenges across platforms
• Design and develop reports usingSSRSPower BI (Advanced) andQlik Sense
• Design and develop database objects including queries tables views and stored procedures in support of reporting solutions
• Drive code review practices and enforce development standards across the team
• Oversee and manage the support and maintenance lifecycleof existing reporting solutions ensuring stability performance and continuous improvement across the reporting portfolio
• Proactively monitor the reporting environment anticipate issues and implement preventive measures before they impact business operations
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements translate business needs into technical solutions and manage delivery expectations
• Utilize and integrate Python scriptsto automate reporting workflows data transformation scheduled tasks and integration processes between reporting platforms and data sources
• Proactively research evaluate and champion emerging reporting and data visualization technologies presenting recommendations to business and technology stakeholders to address evolving needs
• Manage and track project tasks bugs and delivery progress usingJIRA ensuring sprint boards and backlogs are accurately maintained
• Maintain and contribute to team knowledge bases technical documentation runbooks and process guides usingConfluence
• Oversee source code management and branching strategies usingBitbucketand/orGitHub ensuring best practices in version control are followed across the team
• Champion a strong documentation culture ensuring all reports database objects Python scripts processes and system changes are thoroughly documented and kept up to date
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of team processes tooling and reporting architecture

About You:

Required:

• Bachelors degree in Engineering Computer Science or equivalent
• Minimum 10 years of hands-on experience in report development support and maintenanceacross enterprise reporting environments
• Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience with Power BI including DAX data modeling Power Query row-level security and enterprise deployment
• Proven experience withSSRS including advanced features such as parameters sub-reports drilldowns and conditional formatting
• Strong experience designing and developing database objects with RDBMS platforms
• Demonstrated ability tolead mentor and direct a team of developers including task assignment technical coaching and delivery oversight
• Extensive experience insupporting and maintaining production reporting systems including incident management root cause analysis performance tuning and version upgrades
• Working knowledge of Python scriptingwith demonstrated ability to utilize and integrate Python in reporting workflows including but not limited to:
  • Data extraction transformation and loading(ETL) processes
  • Automation of report generationand distribution tasks
  • Integration between reporting platformsand backend data sources
  • Data wrangling and preprocessing using libraries such asPandas NumPy or openpyxl
  • Scheduled task automation and scripted deployment support
• Proactive and forward-thinking approachto technology consistently monitors industry trends evaluates new tools and platforms and drives adoption of innovations that improve reporting capabilities and business outcomes
• Hands-on experience withJIRAfor agile project tracking sprint management and issue resolution workflows
• Proficiency inConfluencefor creating and maintaining technical documentation team wikis runbooks and knowledge base articles
• Experience withBitbucketand/orGitHubfor source code management pull request workflows branching strategies and collaborative code reviews
• Strong documentation skills ability to produce clear structured and comprehensive technical and functional documentation including design specifications data dictionaries deployment guides and support runbooks
• Experience working in and facilitatingAgile/Scrumenvironments
• Solid proficiency in core software development practices debugging code tuning refactoring and version control
• Strong analytical problem-solving and communication skills with the ability to engage both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Self-motivated accountable and capable of managing competing priorities in a fast-paced environment

Desired / Asset:

• Qlik Senseexperience or working knowledge ability to develop and maintain Qlik applications is a strong advantage
• Experience withPostgreSQLandJSONprocessing
• Advanced Python experience includingREST API integration web scraping for data sourcing or building reusable reporting utility libraries
• Knowledge of thefinancial services industry including fund administration or investment reporting concepts
• Experience with deployment automation andCI/CD pipelinesfor reporting solutions
• Demonstrated history ofintroducing new reporting technologies or frameworksthat were successfully adopted within a business or enterprise environment
• Familiarity withConfluencespace administration and structured documentation frameworks for engineering teams
• Experience establishing or improvingGit branching and release management strategieswithin a development team

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