Lead, Business Intelligence Engineer at NewGlobe

About the Role

• NewGlobe has been data-driven from its inception, using a build-measure-learn approach to all aspects of service delivery.
• As a scale model business, we have an unprecedented opportunity to bring statistical power to all aspects of an educational operation, from the academics’ team using randomised controlled trials to validate the best teaching methods to the schools team understanding which factors contribute to teacher turnover to operational teams striving to improve our service delivery efficiency.
• However, as the size and complexity of our business has grown, we now want to bring in someone who can lead our efforts  to consolidate and standardise our reporting capabilities, establishing a fully realised data warehouse and associated data marts, introducing continuous delivery practices, and partnering with key stakeholders to evolve our data offerings even further.
• To do this will require someone who can thrive in an environment of “build the airplane while flying it” - ensuring that we’re simultaneously responsive to the short term needs of the business and also looking to invest in the long term health and evolution of the platform.
• The Lead Engineer, Business Intelligence will be complemented by a team of three additional BI engineers and analysts to help achieve this mission, and will report into the NewGlobe Data Architect.

Responsibilities
What You Will Do:

• Contribute to the effective data governance of business data, including data quality, data management, data policies, business process management, and risk management surrounding the handling of business data
• Manage day to day intake of BI requests, including stakeholder engagement, requirements gathering, prioritisation, and ultimately execution.
• Communicate with business and outside actors to develop requirements for new analytical capabilities
• Build and maintain data ETL pipelines that read from heterogeneous data sources
• Improve the scalability, stability, accuracy, and efficiency of our existing data systems
• Monitor operations on data warehouse servers in order to identify and resolve issues and ensure continuous integration of data into warehouses
• Lead the BI team, providing support for the team members in their daily tasks, prioritising work as required by the business objectives and ensuring team engagement and wellbeing
• Provide performance management for BI team - e.g. ensuring everyone in the team has clear objectives, support team members through the year to reach their goals and provide performance feedback

Requirements
What You Should Have:

• Expertise with core Microsoft data platform, especially Microsoft SQL Server 2019, SSIS, and SSRS
• Fluency with warehouse design and dimension modelling (star schemas, snowflakes, etc)
• Passion for Business Intelligence Development across a variety of tools and technologies
• Basic DBA skills (though we do have a separate DBA team)
• Familiarity with version control, continuous delivery, and test-driven development is a bonus
• Understanding of NoSQL databases and unstructured data is a bonus
• Ability to prioritise and execute tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Experience or interest in results-driven, lean/agile environments
• Previous experience with leading technical teams (4-7 engineers)
• Relevant previous experience as a data engineer/BI Lead of (5-7) years

What We Offer

• The opportunity to make a difference for children every day at a proven, internationally recognized, mission-driven company.
• Flexible hybrid working arrangement.
• Take the lead and help us grow our engineering team
• The opportunity to work on challenging and innovative projects