Data Warehouse Technical Lead

K  are a global technical solutions provider with 28,000 employees worldwide, with operations in 34 countries delivering to customers in 80 countries. K  work collaboratively with their wide customer base to deliver solutions that strive to create a better, safer and more sustainable world.

K ’s Estates Intelligence division specialise in enabling clients to make informed decisions about the operational and strategic management of their estates and asset portfolios, including the external supply chain retained to deliver asset management and maintenance services. Estates Intelligence teams utilise the ‘6 As’ Methodology to deliver business benefit by deploying their ‘Viaverse’ platform to enable each A – aggregation of data, automation of transactional processing and operational data flows, assurance of process and data integrity to promote sanctity of management information, audit of processing and data to better refine business outcomes, analytics to offer management information and insight, all to enable enhanced asset management across client’s portfolio.

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.

The role will involve designing, building, testing, supporting and evolving the CDE, ensuring it receives data from multiple K  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 K  MS Azure instance that will serve various organisation’s information needs, including a K  team dedicated to providing analytics and insight on client estate.

The role will involve deep technical knowledge of SQL, ETL and Microsoft stack, and demand establishment of collaborative working relationships with technical peer groups, K  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 to a SaaS solution in the medium term.

• 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.

• Agreeing MI Operating Model that ensures future MI requirements for stakeholders are captured, assessed, developed and delivered in a structured, auditable and repeatable manner.

• 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.

• Experience developing, deploying and supporting multi-data source SQL data warehouses in an on-premise environment.
• Experience of the full Microsoft Stack – SSIS, SSRS and SSAS.
• Experience creating, documenting and developing data models to deliver management information outcomes.
• Experience developing ETL procedures from multiple data sources to one data source.
• Experienced in developing Data Lakehouse’s in Microsoft Fabric.
• 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…