Data and BI Manager

Type: Permanent, Full time (35 hours per week)

Location: Ealing office base with Hybrid working – typically 1 day per week in the office

About Us

We’re a UK housing association committed to a new vision – providing homes people love to live in.

With over 38,000 homes in management across London and southern England, we provide a wide range of homes for social, affordable and private rent, specialist housing services, as well as homes for sale and shared ownership.

Our 70,000 customers have diverse backgrounds and levels of income and we’re here to provide all of them with homes that are safe, high quality and sustainable. And with social housing roots going back eight decades, we continue to ensure that every penny of profit we make is reinvested into our charitable social purpose – delivering more homes and better services for customers.

We’re also members of the G15, a group of leading housing associations that work together to house one in ten Londoners and tackle the housing crisis.

About The Role

We’re searching for a Data and BI Manager to join our friendly and hard-working IT Department here at A2Dominion. This role will be responsible for overseeing the organisations data analysis and BI function. You will lead a team of analysts to ensure the availability, quality, and usability of data for decision-making purposes.

Key Responsibilities

• Business Intelligence Development: Implement a sustainable BI framework and lead the development of BI solutions, including dashboards, reports, and data visualizations, to enable data-driven decision-making across the organization. Ensure BI solutions are user-friendly, intuitive, and aligned with business needs
• Data Analysis and Insights: Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify key business questions and requirements. Perform data analysis and interpretation to derive actionable insights and recommendations. Present findings to senior management and business leaders
• Performance Monitoring and Optimization: Monitor the performance and effectiveness of BI solutions. Identify opportunities for optimization and enhancement to improve user experience and drive business value. Implement best practices for BI development and delivery
• Team Leadership and Development: Lead and mentor a team of data analysts and BI developers. Provide guidance, support, and technical expertise to team members. Foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning
• Vendor Management: Manage relationships with external vendors and service providers for data management and BI tools and services. Evaluate vendor offerings and make recommendations for tool selection and implementation
• Data Governance and Compliance: work with the data governance team to ensure compliance with data governance policies, regulations, and industry standards. Collaborate with people services and compliance teams to address data privacy and security requirements

More About You

For this role, we’re looking for someone with the following:

• This candidate must hold a relevant university degree, with focus on business, mathematics, statistics or computer science
• A good understanding of data structures and databases
• Excellent stakeholder and relationship management skills with the ability to communicate effectively to non-technical people
• Ability to manage expectations with key stakeholders
• Advanced SQL experience
• Proven track record of leading successful BI projects from inception to delivery, including requirements gathering, design, development, and deployment
• Working knowledge of data warehousing, data management and ETL
• Qualified in SQL Server Database Fundamentals (Desirable)
• Databricks Certified Data Analyst Associate certification (Desirable)

Choosing us is easy

As an employee of A2Dominion, we want you to feel rewarded and have a choice of flexible benefits, salary exchange benefits, and rewards and discounts that work for you, wherever you are in your life.

We offer a wide range of staff benefits. For this role, these include:

• 25 days’ holiday (Plus Bank Holidays) increasing up to 28 days with 3 years of service
• Up to 8% contributory pension
• Flexible working
• Investment in your learning and development.

In addition, all permanent and fixed-term employees receive a generous annual allowance of up to £300 to use towards health and lifestyle benefits for both you and your family.

We also operate a Cycle to Work Scheme whereby employees have access to cycling equipment throughout the year and can pay via monthly salary deductions.

Whatever the role, we want you to bring your knowledge and experience to play your part in improving people’s lives.

If you require a reasonable adjustment during the recruitment process, please contact our Talent Team to request: [email protected]

A2Dominion Group is a Disability Confident Employer which means that we are committed to employing disabled people and will:

• actively look to attract and recruit disabled people
• provide a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process
• offer an interview to disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job
• be flexible with assessing people so disabled applicants have the best opportunity to demonstrate that they can do the job
• make reasonable adjustments as required

At A2Dominion Group, we recognise the positive value of diversity, promote equality and inclusivity in our hiring processes. We always aim to recruit the person who is most suited to the job and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds – men and women, people of all ages, sexual orientations, nationalities, religions, and beliefs.

Meeting The Role Requirements

We recognise that some people will only apply for a role if they meet 100% of role requirements. If this sounds like you, we’d still encourage you to apply and also to arrange a call with one of our recruitment team to discuss your application further at [email protected]

A2Dominion is proud to be a family friendly employer

Everyone is welcome at A2Dominion Group. We know that equality, diversity, and inclusivity make us better. We embrace the unique contributions of our people and seek to create a workplace where everyone feels like they belong. Find out why our people love working with us.”

Join us at A2Dominion, where your expertise will be integral to our recovery journey, creating lasting positive changes in the lives of our customers. If you possess the right motivation and drive to contribute to our recovery and change initiatives, we invite you to apply and be a crucial part of our team.