Senior BI Developer
£55,000 – £65,000 + Bonus | Manchester or Fareham (Hybrid after probation)
Gravitas is supporting a growing financial services organisation in the search for a Senior BI Developer to take full ownership of their business intelligence estate.
This is a crucial role for an experienced BI professional who can translate complex data into meaningful insights, develop high‑quality Power BI assets, and act as the bridge between a modern Databricks‑based data platform and business stakeholders.
If you’re passionate about designing clean, scalable BI solutions that genuinely influence decision-making—and you’re confident working with senior stakeholders in a regulated environment—this is an excellent opportunity to elevate your impact.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Own, develop, and maintain the organisation’s Power BI estate, including dashboards, semantic models, paginated reports, and Power BI Service administration.
- Build robust semantic models that connect Power BI directly to Databricks lakehouses and SQL Server.
- Create SSRS and paginated reports to support operational, financial, and regulatory reporting needs.
- Work closely with the data engineering team to ensure BI outputs align with upstream pipelines and business logic.
- Partner with stakeholders across Operations, Finance, Compliance, and Portfolio Management to translate requirements into clear, accurate, insightful reporting.
- Promote Power BI self-service across the business, providing training and guidance to users.
- Contribute to data governance efforts, including data lineage, documentation, and data dictionary maintenance.
- Support ad hoc analysis and provide input into board reporting packs.
- Ensure reporting outputs meet FCA regulatory requirements and internal governance standards.
What You Bring
Core Experience
- 5+ years’ experience in BI development with a strong, demonstrable Power BI portfolio.
- Expert-level Power BI capability: data modelling, DAX, paginated reports, workspace and Service administration.
- Strong SQL skills and experience working with SQL Server and/or Azure Synapse.
- Ability to design and optimise semantic models connected to Databricks.
- Experience building SSRS or equivalent formatted reports.
- Proven confidence presenting insights to senior, non-technical stakeholders.
Nice to Have
- Experience with Azure Synapse Analytics or Azure Data Factory.
- Familiarity with Databricks notebooks, and basic Python or PySpark exposure.
- Experience within financial services or another regulated industry.
- Understanding of data governance, data quality, and lineage frameworks.
Your Working Style
Technical Excellence
- Holds high standards in report quality, DAX performance, and data model design.
- Maintains a clean, organised, and well-documented Power BI environment.
- Keeps up-to-date with the evolving Microsoft BI ecosystem.
Commercial Awareness
- Understands business context and stakeholder needs.
- Communicates insights clearly and designs reporting that drives action.
Collaboration
- Works effectively with data engineers, analysts, and business teams.
- Skilled at gathering and refining requirements and managing expectations.
Drive & Initiative
- Proactively identifies opportunities to improve BI outputs and coverage.
- Takes full ownership of deliverables, ensuring they are delivered to a high standard.
What’s on Offer
- £55,000 – £65,000 base salary
- Discretionary annual bonus
- 25–30 days holiday (based on tenure) + birthday day off
- Pension scheme with up to 5% matched contributions
- Cycle & Tech schemes
- Manchester or Fareham office location
- Office‑based during probation, then hybrid working
