Senior Report Developer

About the role

The Performance and Intelligence Team provides high quality data and intelligence from a diverse range of data sets to execute effective data analysis to inform, influence and shape policy making, strategy development and budget planning for the Council.

Our development plans include providing more proactive business intelligence, by being able to report on demand patterns, service utilisation trends and customer profiling, to identify ways of supporting our residents better and more efficiently. We are also exploring the implementation of modern self-service visualisation and analytics across the Council’s services.

We need people to join us who can help. We are looking to appoint across multiple roles at varying levels, including technical data engineering and reporting (this role) and analyst roles.

What will you be doing?

• Lead a team to design, write and deploy data engineering / reports to extract data from line of business and case management systems to support the wider delivery of performance and intelligence information to services.
• Work across many different services - from adult social care, to special educational needs and disabilities, to housing provision and many others.
• Lead a team of 2 Report Developers to support delivery of reporting across the business.
• Work closely with performance analysts, business analysts, IT and the service, and lead efforts to develop new data flow and pipelines to transform data provision to make use of more automated and modern platforms.

About you

In all our roles, we are looking for colleagues who see the world through a data lens, are proactive, self-managing, curious and have a self-reliant approach to problem solving. Good communication and strong client facing skills are also a prerequisite.

In this role specifically, strong technical skills in common database standards and software such as SQL, Business Objects, Oracle, Crystal are essential. Skills developing data pipelines, integrating data from multiple sources, and self-service platforms with other tools such as SSRS, Power BI or Tableau and deploying to users, are also important.

This role also manages two people and leads a team with many different clients in a fast-paced environment, so line and team management skills, and good judgement and advice are also important. Experience of local government or public sector in general would be beneficial.

For informal conversation, contact Tom Barden at [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal].

Our benefits

• Competitive salary
• Pension scheme with significant employer contribution, life cover and ill-health protection
• Opportunities to develop skills, knowledge and potential
• Generous leave entitlement (28 days rising to 33 days) plus bank holidays and option to buy extra days
• Agile and flexible working arrangements

About us

[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is a new unitary council established in April 2021. Our vision: 'A place where everyone has the best opportunities and quality of life.' Our priorities include helping people live active fulfilled lives, caring for young people, enabling a thriving economy, leading on a green environment, connected communities, and modern public services.

Our values: Customer-focused, Respectful, Efficient, Supportive and Trustworthy.