Senior Business Intelligence Developer

Job responsibilities

Job description Job responsibilities You will manage technical BI projects from development through to implementation, ensuring that agreed standards, timescales and quality requirements are met. You will provide technical guidance and knowledge transfer to developers and analysts, maintain effective documentation and governance, and work closely with clinical, operational and corporate colleagues, system suppliers and external partners to deliver reliable and reusable BI solutions., Job responsibilities You will manage technical BI projects from development through to implementation, ensuring that agreed standards, timescales and quality requirements are met. You will provide technical guidance and knowledge transfer to developers and analysts, maintain effective documentation and governance, and work closely with clinical, operational and corporate colleagues, system suppliers and external partners to deliver reliable and reusable BI solutions.

Main duties of the job

You will lead the design, development and maintenance of the Trust's data warehouse and wider BI infrastructure, including trusted data sources, Power BI semantic models, data gateways and automated ETL processes. You must have experience using technologies such as SQL Server, T-SQL, Python, SSIS, SSRS and APIs, as you will be expected to use those to integrate information from clinical, workforce, and other corporate systems, while improving data quality, system performance and reporting resilience.

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent relevant experience.

Desirable

• Relevant degree, for example Health Informatics, Computer Studies or Mathematics
• Microsoft SQL Server certification
• Certification in the use of Business Intelligence tools
• Evidence of ongoing leadership training and development

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• High level of attention to detail, accuracy and quality assurance
• Advanced knowledge of T-SQL

Desirable

• Knowledge of mental health trust processes, activities and services
• Knowledge of project management tools and concepts

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience developing Microsoft BI solutions, including SQL Server (2016 or later), SSIS, SSRS and SSAS
• Experience of writing Python scripts
• Experience querying data and developing reports or dashboards in Power BI or other BI tools
• Experience developing ETL routines and working with dimensional database design, management and reporting solutions
• Experience of data warehousing
• Experience working with APIs for secure and efficient exchange of information

Desirable

• Experience of NHS datasets, performance requirements and information flows
• Experience using Azure Portal
• Significant experience using Power BI
• Experience of the Rio electronic patient record system
• Experience of R, and/or VBA
• Experience developing small applications (web or non-web) using VB.Net or similar to support data capture and presentation
• Experience of data set triangulation, identifying potential to link different database/data set sources

Person Specification

Training and Qualifications

Essential

• Educated to degree level or able to demonstrate equivalent relevant experience.

Desirable

• Relevant degree, for example Health Informatics, Computer Studies or Mathematics
• Microsoft SQL Server certification
• Certification in the use of Business Intelligence tools
• Evidence of ongoing leadership training and development

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• High level of attention to detail, accuracy and quality assurance
• Advanced knowledge of T-SQL

Desirable

• Knowledge of mental health trust processes, activities and services
• Knowledge of project management tools and concepts

Experience

Essential

• Significant experience developing Microsoft BI solutions, including SQL Server (2016 or later), SSIS, SSRS and SSAS
• Experience of writing Python scripts
• Experience querying data and developing reports or dashboards in Power BI or other BI tools
• Experience developing ETL routines and working with dimensional database design, management and reporting solutions
• Experience of data warehousing
• Experience working with APIs for secure and efficient exchange of information

Desirable

• Experience of NHS datasets, performance requirements and information flows
• Experience using Azure Portal
• Significant experience using Power BI
• Experience of the Rio electronic patient record system
• Experience of R, and/or VBA
• Experience developing small applications (web or non-web) using VB.Net or similar to support data capture and presentation
• Experience of data set triangulation, identifying potential to link different database/data set sources

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

About us

We are Kent and Medway Mental Health NHS Trust. We care for the mental health and wellbeing of people across Kent and Medway.

Our teams support children, young people and adults with a wide range of mental health needs. We also provide specialist services, including all-age eating disorder services and neurodevelopmental assessments for children and young people, such as autism and ADHD.

Because we work across the whole county and across hospital and community settings, we can make care more joined up and easier to access for the people we serve.

Our vision is simple: we are here to help communities not … Everything we do is guided by our values: caring, inclusive, curious and confident.

Join us if you share our passion for better mental health care and want to be part of a team that's working well together.