Solutions Developer (Business Intelligence) at Save the Children
March 06, 2023

Save the Children
ROLE PURPOSE:
Working with members of the global IT team, the role holder will be responsible for building, implementing and supporting Business Intelligence (BI) solutions within the organisation. This role will partner with business stakeholders in order to understand their analytic requirements, and implement and maintain BI solutions to meet these needs, utilising best practices. The role requires experience in adapting existing solutions as well as creating new solutions.
SCOPE OF ROLE:
Reports to: BI Solutions Manager.
Staff reporting to this post: No direct reports
Role Dimensions:
Over 60 countries with a staff complement in excess of 17,000 of which at least 50% are considered users of IT systems.
KEY AREAS OF ACCOUNTABILITY:
- Provide the organisation with accurate and timely BI solutions based on requirements gathered through business partnering activities
- Maintain and support existing BI solutions
- Proactively source new and innovative solutions that provide clear business value and construct ‘proof of concepts’ to demonstrate the new solutions
- Proactively identify any technical project risks/issues related to BI
- Estimate and deliver BI project tasks to agreed prioritisation and timeframes
- Support the IT Service Delivery team with the BI reporting environment
- Assist product owners in designing, agreeing, implementing and managing changes to the BI environment
- Maintain accurate technical documentation
- Communicate data and insights
SKILLS AND BEHAVIOURS (SCI Values in Practice)
Accountability:
- holds self-accountable for making decisions, managing resources efficiently, achieving and role modelling Save the Children values
- Holds team members and partners accountable to deliver on their responsibilities – giving them the freedom to deliver in the best way they see fit, providing the necessary development to improve performance and applying appropriate consequences when results are not achieved.
Ambition:
- sets ambitious and challenging goals for themselves and their team, takes responsibility for their own personal development and encourages their team to do the same
- widely shares their personal vision for Save the Children, engages and motivates others
- Future orientated, thinks strategically and on a global scale.
Collaboration:
- builds and maintains effective relationships, with their team, colleagues, members and external partners and supporters
- values diversity, sees it as a source of competitive strength
- Approachable, good listener, easy to talk to.
Creativity:
- develops and encourages new and innovative solutions
- Willing to take disciplined risks.
Integrity:
- honest, encourages openness and transparency; demonstrates highest levels of integrity
QUALIFICATIONS
- computing degree – BSc, BA or equivalent experience
- Over 3 years of experience in developing business intelligence solutions.
EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
Essential
- Proven understanding of Data Modelling and Analytics
- Advanced knowledge and experience working with relational and NOSQL databases as well as data warehousing.
- Experience of working with Microsoft’s BI technology stack SSIS, SSRS, SSAS (tabular model), Power BI, Power Query, Excel.
- Experience with Microsoft Azure Analytics tools and technologies such as Azure Synapse Analytics, Azure Data Bricks, HD Insight, Azure Data Factory, Azure Machine learning, Azure Stream Analytics, Azure Data Lake, Azure Analysis Services, Event Hubs, Azure Data Explorer, Azure Data Share, Azure Time Series Insights.
- Good interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills with a proven ability to explain complex technical ideas and problems clearly to non-experts
- Self-motivated, enthusiastic, and strong problem solving skills
- Cultural awareness and experience of delivering solutions internationally working in an agile project delivery environment.
- Experience maintaining source control in Git or Azure DevOps
- Strong experience with various Software Development Life cycles (SDLC) methodologies: Agile or Standard waterfall initiatives
- Proven experience working with various Project Management practices and disciplines
- Demonstrated strong interpersonal skills to augment a close working relationship with cross functional teams
- A history of designing and implementing reporting solutions that are both functional and engaging
- Meticulous attention to detail
Desirable:
- Proficiency in DAX, MDX, Python/Scala/Spark SQL
- Non-profit sector knowledge/experience
- Cosmos DB
- Machine Learning
Equal Opportunities
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with the SCI Equal Opportunities and Diversity policies and procedures.
Health and Safety
The post holder is required to carry out the duties in accordance with SCI Health and Safety policies and procedures.
Additional job responsibilities
The job duties and responsibilities as set out above are not exhaustive and the post holder may be required to carry out additional duties within reasonableness of their level of skills and experience. Some degree of international travel may be required.
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