Senior BI Developer

Contract Opportunity: Senior BI Developer

Contract Length: 6 Months (with potential 3-6-month extension)

Location: Birmingham (Hybrid)

IR35 Status: Outside IR35

Rate: Competitive / DOE

Start: ASAP

Overview:

Chapman Tate is working with a leading organisation who are seeking a highly experienced Senior BI Developer on a 6-month contract to lead the development of a new Power BI enterprise reporting suite, supporting multiple functions including Sales, Finance, HR, Commercial, and Logistics.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Expert-level Power BI skills including DAX, Power Query (M), and semantic model design

• Experience working with Power BI Premium and optimising for performance and scalability

• Strong understanding of data architecture principles (e.g. star schema, data lakehouse environments)

• Solid SQL experience for data transformation, validation, and extraction

• Proven experience building reusable, governed datasets across reporting domains

• Demonstrated ability to automate manual reporting processes in a commercial environment

• Experience supporting and training business users, including super users

• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills

• Minimum 3 years' experience in a BI Developer or Data Analyst role

• Background working with financial and operational data (distribution/supply chain/manufacturing is advantageous)

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and maintain Power BI semantic data models and datasets

• Collaborate with Data Architects to align schema and data definitions

• Develop and deploy enterprise-level dashboards across core business domains

• Automate manual reporting processes and reduce reporting lead times

• Enable self-service reporting through training, mentoring, and reusable templates

• Implement RLS, workspace governance, and performance optimisation best practices

• Partner with business stakeholders and Data Business Partners to translate needs into BI solutions

• Validate outputs and ensure accuracy against existing reports

• Champion data use and analytics adoption across the organisation

How to apply?

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