Band 8a Senior BI Developer

Job summary

Although this position is offered as a 12-month fixed-term contract, the actual duration may be slightly reduced to allow for advertising, recruitment and completion of pre-employment checks. The contract will therefore begin from the successful candidate's start date.

We are seeking an experienced Senior Business Intelligence Developer to lead innovative, data-driven solutions within a large NHS organisation. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in transforming how information, analytics and digital insight are delivered across the Trust.

The successful candidate will provide technical leadership across a diverse BI environment, leading the development of advanced reporting and visual analytics solutions using Qlik Sense, while also supporting SSRS, Power BI, Business Objects and SharePoint-based digital solutions. Working closely with clinical, operational and corporate teams, you will translate complex requirements into accessible dashboards, reports and digital tools that support informed decision-making.

The role will also support the adoption of AI and data science approaches to enhance analytics, automate processes and generate deeper insights from Trust data. You will champion data quality, governance and best practice while mentoring BI developers and promoting innovation across the team to improve performance and patient care.

Main duties of the job

To be the senior representative of the Trust's reporting workstream for Qlik View and Qlik Sense centre of expertise and knowledge for all matters pertaining to the use, development and application of the tool. By exploiting the potential of the Qlik Sense application, support the development of the reporting tools and dashboards, thereby supporting the activities enabling clinicians and senior management to better understand their activities and performance to facilitate informed decision making.

Through increased visualisation and improved accessibility of data, allow the Trust to maximise and exploit the potential of the available information.

Line management and professional development of Qlik Developer.

About us

We're an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and our patients are happy with.

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record(we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated goodby the Care Quality Commission.

We operate from two main sites - KGH in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We're campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen'sand get rid of corridor care.

We're proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We're also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance.

We run a Women's Health Hubin Ilford; an Ageing Well Centrein Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospitaland at St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The majority of our 8,400 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexiblyand more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We're proud to be a London Living Wageemployer.

Some of the positive changes we've made are captured in this film.