BI Developer

The Role

Unite Students have an exciting opportunity for a Business Intelligence Developer to join our Data & Insight team in Bristol on a six month fixed-term contract. As we upgrade our data platform to modernise our analytics and AI capabilities, you will play a pivotal role in our enterprise-wide transformation programme, rebuilding our most business-critical Tableau dashboards using data from our new platforms.

Reporting to the Senior Analytics Manager, you will work at pace to deliver high-quality, user-friendly dashboards that enable commercial teams to make confident, data-driven decisions. Alongside this, you may also contribute to smaller projects across the business, supporting the team`s wider objectives.

What You`ll Be Doing

• Recreate and enhance business-critical sales dashboards in Tableau, ensuring accuracy and usability.
• Partner with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into clear, actionable dashboards.
• Collaborate with data engineers to ensure data pipelines and models align with reporting needs.
• Work within a multi-capability project team, contributing to the successful delivery of the wider transformation programme.
• Support the management and optimisation of the Tableau Cloud platform.
• Provide ad-hoc support on other analytics initiatives within the Data & Insight team.

Key Success Metrics

• Delivery of accurate, engaging dashboards that inform commercial decisions and can be adopted quickly by end users.
• Strong, productive relationships with stakeholders across commercial, customer-facing, and central teams.
• Identification of opportunities for quick wins and improvements in existing reporting, helping to deliver additional value during the project.
• Contribution to the Data & Insight team`s ability to deliver on wider business objectives through effective reporting.

What We ` re Looking for in You

• Proven Tableau expertise, with a track record of designing high-quality, insightful dashboards.
• Strong SQL skills for querying, validating, and shaping data.
• Experience working end-to-end on analytics projects: from requirements gathering through to design, build, testing, and support.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues.
• Highly organised, able to prioritise tasks and meet tight deadlines.
• Comfortable working autonomously and taking ownership of deliverables, while contributing effectively as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Beneficial:
  • Awareness of UX principles and best practices in dashboard design.
  • Experience querying or connecting to cloud data platforms (e.g. Databricks, Snowflake).
  • A degree in a numerate discipline.

What You`ll Get in Return

• A discretionary annual bonus so you can share in the company`s success
• 25 days` paid holiday and an annual holiday buying scheme, with 5 additional days awarded for long service
• A generous pension scheme - employer contributions between 5% and 11% depending on how much you save
• Various benefits to support your health and wellbeing including a Healthcare Cash Plan, an Employee Assistance Programme, a Wellbeing platform and a Gym benefit that you can share with your family and friends
• Enhanced Family Leave including 18 weeks full pay for birthing parents and 4 weeks for non-birthing parents
• Lots of other great benefits including an annual ShareSave scheme, Employee Life Assurance, a discounts portal and more!

About Unite Students

Founded in 1991, Unite Students is a FTSE 100 business and the UK`s leading provider of purpose-built student accommodation. You can find us in 25 leading university towns and cities, with 74,000 students calling US home! We are driven by our values, culture, and a commitment to develop diverse and inclusive teams, filled with positive energy and new ideas.

Instinctive inclusion. We know that to create and maintain a happy healthy organisation, we have to work hard to ensure inclusion isn`t just what we do but who we are.

People make Unite Students. Employees, students and neighbours all contribute to building environments where we can all thrive.

Room for Everyone

We`re proud to be an employer that embraces individuality, and we`re passionate about building inclusive teams. We focus on creating a collaborative culture where you can be you, where your voice is heard, and where you can truly belong. We take great pride in being rated Gold Investors in People and are constantly striving to provide the highest standard of learning and development opportunities and professional pathways for our people. Building a home for success, for both our employees and students, requires exceptional people with a passion for creating room for everyone, doing what`s right, keeping US safe, and raising the bar. Join us as we build better experiences for students that live with us.

We are US.