Business Intelligence Consultant – Microsoft BI Stack; required for a consultancy firm partnering with world leading clients from financial services, banking and beyond. Working with teams of business intelligence experts on varied and challenging projects, the company offers a dynamic and exciting career opportunity. The company prides itself on internal growth and training and is unrivalled by other consultancies. They are seeking to recruit a BI Consultant to join the growing team in London in their Data Analytics practice.

Location – London / SE-based, but client-facing nature of consultancy life demands you be flexible to travel and work away for extended periods.

Essential Skills:

• Significant SQL Server including extensive experience of – all of – SSIS (Integration Services), SSAS (Analysis Services) & SSRS (Reporting Services)
• Secondary skillset in one of the following: SAS, Looker, Informatica, Cognos, Teradata, or QlikView
• Track record of designing and delivering projects centred on Data Management, Data Warehousing, Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Migration, Business Intelligence.

Desirable Skills:

• Python, R, Cloud (Azure / AWS / GCP)

Candidate Specification:

• A good team player and able to work independently.
• Excellent Client Facing skills.
• A self-starter who is proactive in nature.
• Excellent verbal, written communication and presentational skills.
• Abilities to build cross functional and external relationships.
• Effective negotiating and influencing skills..
• Strong Self Developer

Senior Manager: Edinburgh. As we continue to build and strengthen our capability, an exciting opportunity has arisen to join our consultancy team. We are looking for a dynamic individual, with proven consultancy experience and strong technical skills to join our team of Edinburgh-based specialists.

Essential Requirements:

• Experience in multiple areas – Data Management, Data Warehousing, Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Migration, Business Intelligence, Analytics, Project Delivery across advisory and technical delivery projects.
• Prior experience of one or multiple core Data & BI Solution: SAS, SQL, Teradata, PowerBI, QlikView / QlikSense / QlikCore, Microsoft Stack (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS) and others.
• Project Management skills – Experience of delivering projects across the lifecycle from end to end.
• Senior stakeholder management and interpersonal skills with business/technical focused stakeholders.
• Experience of and capability to discuss client needs for both project delivery and proposal work – translating these into solutions and executing the project.
• Demonstrated ability or experience of building and maintaining client relationships.
• Experience of internal people development.
• Experience of leading people and teams on projects.
• Demonstrated experience of building internal capability and leading propositions and taking new ideas to market.
• Evidence of support, helping and leading sales.
• Flexibility to travel to and work on client sites within the UK and occasionally Europe.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in consulting.

Key skills:

• A high level of drive with the ability to work to tight deadlines.
• Experience of providing insightful solutions throughout the business.
• The ability to participate effectively in meetings with senior stakeholders.
• A team player who supports, encourages and shares knowledge with others.
• A self-starter with the ability to work under pressure and with limited supervision.
• A track record of accurate output and responsibility for elements of project delivery.
• The ability to work as part of an integrated team or on an individual basis.
• Awareness of industry standards, regulations and developments.

Data Architect: Our Client are a market-leading Data Management, Data Engineering, Data Visualisation, Analytics and BI consultancy within the UK. They work with clients across all industries, from large Financial Services organisations to small to medium enterprises all of whom require their specialist support.

As they continue to build and strengthen their capability, this exciting opportunity has arisen to join them and to broaden and strengthen their consulting base. They are looking for dynamic individuals, with proven experience and strong technical skills to join the team operating out of the Edinburgh HQ

As a Data Architect they would expect you to have both knowledge and experience of delivering data driven, organisational transformation, utilising both on premise and cloud data architectures and the various principles and methodologies that support this activity.

Essential Requirements:

• Ability to lead the design and build of data architecture either on premise, in the cloud or a hybrid architecture
• Detailed knowledge of data storage methods and techniques (Data warehousing, Data Lakes, Enterprise Data Hubs, Data Virtualisation) and the practical application of those to meet Business requirements
• Strong knowledge of data modelling techniques such as Kimball methodologies, data marts, data cubes, star schemas and implementing conceptual, logical and physical data models
• Strong knowledge of data modelling tools and strong SQL experience and knowledge
• Experience in application / system architecture, building/ running distributed/ scalable solutions on multiple Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, Google etc.). Knowledge of the Cloud Stack (IaaS/ PaaS/SaaS).
• Evidence of delivering end to end data architecture design and implementation across a range of clients and projects

Key Skills:

• Experience of providing insightful solutions to both clients and within the internal business
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Project Management skills – experience of delivering projects across the lifecycle from end to end.
• Experience of leading people and teams on projects
• A self-starter with the ability to work under pressure and with limited supervision
• Demonstrated experience of building internal capability and leading propositions and taking new ideas to market.
• An understanding of the consulting sales process and how to support these activities, sales proposals, presentation of recommendations, delivery roadmaps etc

In additional to the above the role will require he flexibility to travel frequently to client sites within the UK and occasionally Europe.