Senior Business Intelligence 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? For further details on the position and the company, please share your CV directly via the job advert.