Job Description

Senior Business Intelligence Developer - Temporary (up to 24 months)

Salary: £50,544 to £55,464 (dependent on experience)

Contract type: Temporary: Fixed-Term Contract or Secondment

Hours: Full-Time

Location: Poole, Dorset, England

Location description: Hybrid between home and Poole – with occasional travel to Poole as required by the role and project

Closing Date: 21-06-2026

Reference: 21671

About us

Our purpose is simple: to save lives at sea. 24 hours a day, every day, RNLI lifesavers are ready to launch to the rescue, and our volunteers are tirelessly raising the funds we need to support them.

We’re looking for a Senior Business Intelligence Developer to join our brilliant Business Intelligence Team and help deliver reporting through a series of strategic projects. The BI team is temporarily expanding to work on a strategic Digital Transformation project, migrating from our existing ERP estate into a new composable architecture and ways of working. We are interested in hearing from people who would be excited to work on projects implementing new systems and leading the design of the new reporting landscape.

This role is all about ensuring our implementation projects run successfully and working closely with our customers to ensure that the right data is available to them as easily as possible. The desire for insight is unstoppable at the RNLI, and the role will include representing the BI Team in Project meetings, selling the enterprise reporting strategy to our customers, gathering requirements and designing reporting products with great user experience baked in at all levels. 

You will work with project teams to understand the scope and impact on reporting and to produce achievable delivery plans for those products. The role will work with others in the department to ensure well-structured dimensional data models are delivered in Databricks via a robust semantic/gold layer, and to use these models to deliver the Power BI reporting to meet our customers’ reporting requirements. The role will collaborate closely with others in the team to maintain the award-winning BI products that our people rely on.

Your Role

As a Senior Business Intelligence Developer, you’ll help the RNLI transform the way we consume insight by:

- Representing the BI Team in project meetings, selling the enterprise reporting strategy and ensuring we have the requirements and data to make the reporting a success

- Turning the needs of customers into well designed reporting products that help users understand their data and drive action 

- Understanding the scope and impact of each project and ensuring there are sensible plans for reporting and delivery

- Working with other experts in the RNLI’s data teams to ensure we consolidate data and deliver a robust reporting layer that will meet the organisation’s reporting and analytical needs now, and in the future

- Making sure we have high-quality, structured data flowing from source systems to our reporting presentation layer, so we can deliver accurate and timely insight to those that need it

- Ensuring that data quality and security are considered throughout any systems change in the RNLI, from system design and implementation right through to the insight we deliver

About You

We are looking for someone with advanced data modelling and SQL developer experience who can gather and interpret complex reporting requirements and multiple business processes to deliver a robust suite of reporting products delivered through Power BI.

You will be able to work in an agile manner to deliver benefits to our customers as soon as possible, according to project priorities. You will enjoy working with other data professionals and others on the project delivery teams to ensure that dependencies across teams are understood and communicated, so that data can flow from consumption to presentation layers in a robust and efficient manner.

You will have extensive experience and working knowledge of SSMS or Azure Databricks, dimensional data modelling, Kimball methodology techniques and building data structures for consumption and presentation via Power BI.

You will be confident to represent the needs of the team on the projects and lead the scoping, planning, design and delivery of data products.

You will be used to working to project timescales and using project delivery tools such as Jira and Azure DevOps.

You’ll be:

- Someone who understands how data should be consumed and structured throughout each level of ingestion and transformation to a presentation layer to deliver business intelligence reporting in Power BI

- Someone with vast experience of creating robust data warehouse models to meet complex reporting and analytical needs

- Someone who enjoys working in a complex project environment 

- Someone who is confident working with data from ERP systems, ideally with experience of working with D365 and Workday 

- Someone who is proficient in writing robust SQL code, designing dimensional data models which are reusable and working within Databricks

- Someone with experience of data lineage testing to ensure data quality throughout the ETL process and can check their work as they develop

- Someone who wants to share their experience with their team and help us to grow and do great things together.

- Someone who wants to do all of that and in a context that really makes a difference!

So, as a Senior Business Intelligence Developer, you will have the analytical and modelling skills to really make a difference, supporting us in giving people the insight they need to save lives. 

To find out if this could be the role for you, please apply via the button shown.

Safeguarding

The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).

Diversity at the RNLI

Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable) and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One