BI Solution Architect

1. BI Solution Architect / BI
One of the world’s leading global business news publishers, recognised as an innovator
within the media industry, pioneering successful new digital models. This innovative
business model has made it one of the world’s most successful digital news operations, with
over 300,000 paid subscribers and over 4 million registered users. Within this dynamic
customer-centric organisation, where data is recognised as playing a key role in driving the
success of the business and helping to shape their online strategy and advertising sales
solutions.
As the digital business evolves and grows, there is every more need to provide business
intelligence and customer insight to inform and optimise strategic commercial decision-
making. A greater understanding is required about the behaviour of our digital audience to
keep abreast of business strategy, and leverage this knowledge to measure performance,
and evaluate the effectiveness of digital developments and initiatives. The need to create
data-driven strategic intelligence about their customers and their user behaviour will help
create new insightful commercial audience and platform solutions.
You will work across Technology, an industry-leading Customer Analytics & Research and the
awarding winning Commercial Strategy & Insight team who both help steer the Digital
strategy. You will be responsible for all our BI technology, platforms and solutions. You will
help pioneer new BI products and tools help further support business transformation. The
role is be recognised as the BI technology authority. With board-level support for Business
Intelligence and the value the data, this role will involve influencing commercial and
strategy at all levels across the business.
Main Duties and Responsibilities
Helping define, implement and sustain a technology data strategy to support business
intelligence, customer insight, and analytics and data products.
Implement an in-progress migration from our existing DWH platform to AWS Redshift
platform
Architect BI solutions to support the BI roadmap.
Support developments throughout the whole development lifecycle (requirement,
development, testing and rollout)
Bring technical thought leadership to the BI team. Mentor members of team. Peer review
developments.
Work across the organisation to advocate the value of data, data governance and how
business intelligence drives value.
Work across other programs of work to ensure dependencies are managed.
Work across technology to ensure BI solutions are fully integrated (networking, security,
ops)
Work closely with the Analytics department to ensure our solutions enable self-serve BI and
related functions.
Keep up-to-date with new technical and business developments to understand how they
may impact user experience and behaviour.
Translate business questions, design and conduct analysis, develop findings and synthesise
recommendations to deliver valuable, relevant, and actionable insight.
Able to define and recognise ‘done’ and ‘good enough’

2. When and where necessary, can become an effective (hands-on) part of the BI development
team.
Share and present findings with business stakeholders. Communicate and collaborate with
business stakeholders across the business on a range of issues.
Supporting business users in making effective use of data, integrating data into the decision-
making process.
Preferable Skills
Some analytical capability and the ability to interpret data and transform into meaningful
conclusions and business recommendations.
Understanding and practical experience of supporting Marketing or CRM initiatives through
the exploitation of data.
Experience of subscription based business models.
An understanding of MDM or Data Quality or Data Mining or learning techniques
Familiarity with SQL and the ability to analyse and combine large data sets using tools such
as SAS, SQL Server or SPSS.
Use of web analytics tools such as sales funnel analysis, capturing custom data and
segmentation.
Understanding of HTML/Javascript.
Provide technical thought leadership and subject matter expertise in data and BI
Knowledge in modelling relational datasets
Knowledge in multi-dimensional modelling, other data structures (NOSL) graph, hierarchical,
etc.)
Understanding the principles and value of strong data visualisation/data lineage.
Can translate technical concepts into business/commercial recommendations.
A consultative approach and ability to decipher hidden user needs.
Looks to contribute new ideas and improvements to existing solutions and processes.
Excellent organisational skills, with experience managing multiple competing workstreams.
Skills
SQL (Postgres preferred)
Microsoft B
Python
SQL
Data Warehouse/ODS Architecture (Kimball / Inmon / Data Vault)
Experience in writing MDX queries
Use of ETL tools (e.g. Talend, Informatica)
Scripting languages (Python preferred)
AWS/EC2 understandingRedshift
Agile environment
Experience of visualisation tools
Use of monitoring and logging tools (like Nagios, Splunk)
For more information please contact Rowan on 07990 767 466
Rowan@abrs.com