Business Intelligence Engineer, NEC Software Solutions

• The role requires someone who can work across the full reporting lifecycle: understanding business requirements, shaping and validating data, developing semantic models, implementing complex calculations, and ensuring outputs are accurate, secure, and fit for use
• This role is well suited to someone with strong hands-on Power BI expertise who can combine analytical thinking, data modelling, SQL, governance awareness, and excellent attention to detail
• Accuracy, consistency, data quality, and strong QA discipline are essential, as reports and datasets will support business-critical decision-making and user-facing product functionality
• Current SC clearance, or eligibility to obtain SC clearance
• Strong hands-on Power BI experience, including report development, data modelling, DAX, Power Query, and performance optimisation
• Proven experience building enterprise Power BI datasets and semantic models
• Advanced DAX capability, including complex measures, KPI development, and calculation validation
• Strong understanding of dimensional data modelling, relationships, data grain, and scalable semantic model design
• Experience creating governed, reusable datasets that support reporting and self-service analytics
• Strong SQL skills, with experience querying and analysing data from relational databases
• Experience implementing Row-Level Security (RLS) and managing secure access and permissions within Power BI
• Strong understanding of data governance, data quality, lineage, and access control principles
• Experience validating and reconciling data to ensure accurate and reliable reporting
• Ability to translate business requirements into effective reporting and analytical solutions
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to gather requirements, challenge assumptions, and influence outcomes
• Excellent attention to detail and commitment to report QA, documentation, and data accuracy
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively within cross-functional teams
• All offers are subject to satisfactory vetting, references and occupational health checks
• This role requires Security Check (SC) clearance. Candidates must either hold current SC clearance, or be eligible to obtain SC clearance

Desirable

• We’re looking for an experienced Data Analyst with strong Power BI development capability to join our team and help deliver high-quality reporting and analytics within our software products
• You’ll work closely with stakeholders across the business to translate requirements into robust reporting solutions, assess available datasets, and build accurate, scalable, and visually effective reports in Power BI
• Build and enhance Power BI reports and dashboards in line with agreed business requirements, wireframes, reporting definitions, and user needs
• Design, build, and maintain Power BI datasets / semantic models for enterprise reporting and analytics use cases
• Translate business requirements into clear reporting logic, clarifying metric definitions, filters, calculations, data assumptions, and access requirements with stakeholders
• Review available datasets and determine the best approach to support reporting needs, including:
• Creating new datasets or semantic models where required
• Transforming and cleansing data using Power Query (M)
• Working with curated, warehouse, lakehouse, or reporting-ready data layers, such as a Silver layer or equivalent
• Building clean, reusable, and scalable data models suitable for both governed reporting and self-service analytics
• Develop and maintain complex DAX measures, including KPI calculations, time intelligence, segmentation, exception logic, and multi-table calculations
• Use SQL to interrogate structured data sources, including relational databases, and amend queries to ensure datasets are fit for reporting purposes
• Ensure datasets are fully consumable by report builders and users, with well-structured schemas, clear relationships, intuitive measures, and a strong usability focus
• Implement and maintain Row-Level Security (RLS) to support role-based data access
• Configure and manage secure access to datasets and reports, including workspace roles, permissions, sharing models, and governance controls
• Apply strong data governance principles, including data classification, lineage, access control, and appropriate handling of sensitive data
• Perform robust QA and validation of reports and datasets, including reconciliation to source data, metric checks, edge-case testing, and consistency checks across visuals, pages, and semantic models
• Collaborate with product, engineering, data, and business stakeholders to ensure reports work effectively within a Power BI Embedded or product-based reporting environment
• Document assumptions, measure logic, dataset structures, data transformations, access controls, and QA outcomes to support maintainability and future development
• Contribute to ongoing improvements in reporting standards, data quality, semantic model design, governance, and analytical best practice