Title:
Data Warehouse Technical Lead
About KBR and the Project
KBR has developed and implemented an innovative, cost-effective solution for the strategic management of estates and facilities services. The Estates Intelligence model and our 6 A methodology; Aggregation, Automation, Asset Management, Assurance, Audit and Analytics, enable the strategic management of estates and facilities services, which is an evolving model in the FM market.
As part of the ongoing growth of its Estates Intelligence, KBR is actively recruiting to expand its team to deliver current and future public sector Estates Intelligence contracts.
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Data Warehouse Technical Lead to develop, support and evolve a critical on-premise ‘common data environment’ (CDE) within a wider integrated solution that will be ‘hybrid cloud’ (transactional and data layers is a on-premise hosted environment, user access/consumption of management information from MS Power BI on Azure). Role will involve designing, building, testing, supporting and evolving the CDE, ensuring it receives data from multiple KBR system and Client System sources, structures the data correctly and efficiently, enables creation/publication of paginated reports into the Cloud and Power BI dashboards via a Gateway link into KBR MS Azure instance that will serve various organisation’s information needs, including a KBR team dedicated to providing analytics and insight on client estate. Role will involve deep technical knowledge of SQL, ETL and Microsoft stack, and demand establishment of collaborative working relationships with technical peer groups, KBR BI/MI Lead(s) and the supporting team of analysts, and occasionally client/supplier users. Role will offer an opportunity to support the Product Owner and directly lead on the data/reporting layer of the overall technical Product, including options to go full-cloud and migrate from on-premise solutions in the medium term.
Working within the FMI ITIM Team:
- Specifying high-level/low level data models, ETL plans and data warehouse designs.
- Building and unit testing data warehouses as part of wider integrated solution.
- Developing suite of paginated reports and dashboards to deliver multi-organisational management information requirements.
- Assisting project management activities in planning, effort estimating and progress reporting.
- Supporting and developing build solution as part of BAU service management.
Working with the FMI BI/MI Lead
- Agreeing MI Operating Model that ensures future MI requirements for stakeholders are captured, assessed, developed and delivered in a structured, auditable and repeatable manner.
Working with the FMI Technical Product Owner
- Advising on and contributing toward development of strategic Technical Product set, especially the data & reporting layer strategy.
- Supporting associated technical transformation/mobilisation projects through all phases from definition through development to close.
Required Skills & Qualifications
Essential:
- Experience developing, deploying and supporting multi-data source SQL data warehouses in an on-premise environment.
- Experience creating, documenting and developing data models to deliver management information outcomes.
- Experience developing ETL procedures from multiple data sources to one data source.
- Adept at building collaborative technical and business working relationships to deliver outputs and outcomes.
- Experienced in authoring technical documentation, able to write clear and maintainable artefacts to support developments.
- Has demonstrated technical leadership: able to understand technical trends and convert into tactical and strategic advantages; able to explain and demystify technology to non-technical audiences.
- Experienced in a second-line technical resolver support environment, able to identify technical issues and manage from root cause to rectification.
- Experience of using Paginated Reports for Power BI to deploy paginated reports into Azure to management information consumers.
- Experience of using Power BI to deliver dashboards using RLS (Row-Level Security) access .
- Experience of creating on-prem data warehouse that provides data to a Cloud Azure instance/Power BI.
- Experienced in working with Project and Programme Management environment, assisting in creating detailed plans and ensuring these are accurate, viable and maintainable.
- Hold, have held or eligible to apply for security clearance to CTC.
- A Full, Clean Driving Licence.
Desirable:
- Experience working FM Integrator Environment, especially creating ETL routines from Concept Evolution to Data Warehouse.
- Experience of creating ETL routines from client data sources where data quality/integrity may be an issue.
- Experience of VBA and .BAT programming.
- Experience of scrum teams & sprint ceremonies .
- Experience of leading/contributing to technical and data governance.
- Understands Agile best practices (code reviews, unit tests, TDD).
- Experienced Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery.
- Experience of collaborating in a MS Teams environment.
- Knowledge of the Facilities Management industry.
- Experience of delivering projects to or for public sector clients.
- An undergraduate degree in Computer Science, Management Information .Systems, Business Administration or Engineering is preferred.
The role is based in Leatherhead but able to work from home and travel to client sites where necessary .
Better, Stronger, Together
Our employees are the heart of everything we do. That’s why we’re dedicated to creating collaborative environments that transcend cultures and geographical boundaries, where all ideas, viewpoints and input are heard, respected, and considered.
Working at KBR means being rewarded for your contributions. In addition to competitive benefits and professional development, our people are empowered to use all their potential, creating meaningful change for themselves and our clients. We attract the best minds in the world because our expertise thrives on creativity, resourcefulness and collaboration. That is how we supply our clients with cutting-edge solutions and services.
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KBR EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER STATEMENT
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