Lumesse

Connells Group UK is seeking a talented Core Data Engineer to join the Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. You will deliver reporting data across brands and units, covering architecture, modelling and pipelines, working with specialists to enhance capability. The role offers a hybrid arrangement with 1 day per week in the Milton Keynes office, focusing on scalable data design, ingestion and unified data model development across the group.

Connells Group is seeking a Contract Data Platform Engineer to join the Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. You will deliver a critical data platform transformation, partnering with Data Architects and engineers to build scalable cloud data capabilities and ensure secure, observable platforms. Strong experience in Microsoft Fabric, SQL Server, and platform-as-code practices will help you drive proactive monitoring and resilient architectures across the data landscape.

We are looking for an experienced Group BI & Reporting Lead to join our Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. In this role, you will lead the Group Reporting Engineering team and drive the development of a Centre of Excellence for corporate and business-critical reporting across Connells Group. You will be responsible for shaping how executive and operational reporting is designed, developed and governed, ensuring critical business intelligence is delivered through the Fabric Group Data Platform with clear ownership, strong controls and consistent standards. This role combines people leadership, delivery leadership and strategic stakeholder engagement. Working closely with the Data Director, Product Manager, Delivery Manager and other capability leads, you will play a pivotal role in maturing reporting practices, enhancing data governance and delivering high-impact reporting that enables informed decision-making across the Group. Strong capabilities in data storytelling are essential, with the ability to translate complex data into meaningful insights for senior stakeholders and executive audiences. We offer a hybrid working arrangement with a minimum 1 day per week in our Milton Keynes office. Key Responsibilities: Delivery practices required to establish a Centre of Excellence for corporate and critical reporting. Act as the senior subject matter expert for corporate and critical BI, defining and embedding best practice for report engineering, semantic modelling, metric design, visual standards and release governance on the Fabric Group Data Platform. Own the service quality, resilience and control environment for critical reporting products, ensuring incidents, data quality issues and root causes are managed effectively with clear accountability, remediation and compliance with agreed SLAs. Lead the delivery of corporate and critical reporting and analytics through the Fabric Group Data Platform, embedding governance, stewardship and ownership for critical metrics, datasets and reports, with particular focus on executive-level reporting needs and strategic data storytelling. Team Responsibilities: Owns the Group Reporting Designs, and gold-layer data products and semantic models. Promotes the use of Agile report development methodologies Ensures the quality of reporting produced Support strategic projects, including those where tier-1 corporate reporting and dashboard products are required Undertake proactive monitoring and react to escalations from other IT teams Supporting members of the team to transition from operational and BAU reporting to high-value strategic data product development. Experience and Skills Required: Excellent communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels. Experience in leading and developing technical teams. Hands-on experience with data modelling, PowerBI, SQL, Python and/or Spark. Proven experience implementing, managing and supporting strategic reporting solutions in a complex environment. Demonstrated product mindset, with a track record of delivering measurable business value. Strong problem-solving skills and experience developing iterative solutions. Current knowledge of industry trends, tools and best practices within BI, analytics and reporting. Highly collaborative, with a partnership-driven approach. Proactive and accountable, taking ownership of issues through to resolution. Comfortable operating across both legacy and modern technology environments. Passionate about driving improvements across people, processes and technology.

We are seeking a Contract Data Platform Engineer to join our Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. You will play a key role in delivering a critical transformation project via the Connells Group Data Platform, including design, capacity, management and configuration management responsibilities. As a Data Platform Engineer, you will be working in a team of technical specialists on a day-to-day basis, delivering a critical project and maturing the overall processes and procedures in relation to the service. The role also supports the business objectives and strategy through the delivery of secure, supportable and scalable cloud data platforms. Key Responsibilities Develop and operate Cloud Data Platform capability Maintain the Data Platform for project fulfilment, managing critical downtime and risk of disruption. To undertake root cause analysis and resolution of incidents. To liaise with Data Architects and Data Engineers to establish scalable and interoperable data capabilities for analytical and operational data (MS Azure, Fabric). Team Roles and Responsibilities Use of Agile methodologies for platform development Deliver Platform as Code and support scalable data ops Work within the Cloud Platform design pattern to implement technical and financial observability Undertake platform capacity management Support project outcomes for target solution architecture and data models Manage and support analytical platform use (Power BI) to enable business adoption Undertake proactive monitoring and react to escalations from other IT teams Collaborating with other members of the data, engineering, and platform teams. Experience and Skills Required Demonstrable experience in similar relevant technical roles Experience of incident resolution, requests, changes and problem-solving activities delivered to agreed SLAs Experience of implementing Cloud Technologies Experience of Microsoft Fabric or other Microsoft Cloud data ops components Experience of managing SQL Server Good team communication, with experiences in sharing and presenting new ideas and approaches with the team Willingness to learn, adopt and advance best practices, procedures and qualitative standards Can operate in a complex environment under pressure Able to operate both with legacy and current technology Analytically minded and a strong attention to detail Experience of GitHub, Git Actions, Terraform, Platform as Code and Zero Trust architectures Experience of advanced tools for operational monitoring Ability to operate and influence at all levels within the organisation Experience of tools for Alerting and Monitoring

Lumesse is seeking an experienced Group BI & Reporting Lead to drive the Group Technology reporting agenda from our Milton Keynes office. You will lead the Centre of Excellence, shape executive reporting, and embed governance across the Fabric Group Data Platform. You will combine leadership with hands-on data modelling and BI delivery, partnering with senior stakeholders to translate complex data into actionable insights and measurable business value.