BI Developer

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with our colleagues working in stores across several retail fascias in many markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.

We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

Role Overview:

We are seeking a hands on, delivery focused Business Intelligence (BI) Developer to design, build, and maintain dashboards, reports, and self service analytics within JD Group. Reporting to a Business Intelligence Area Lead, you will play a key role in delivering high quality BI products that enable effective decision making across the business

You will work closely with BI colleagues, business stakeholders, Data Engineering, and Data Science & AI teams to ensure BI solutions are built on trusted data, follow enterprise standards, and are intuitive, performant, and widely adopted. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys translating data into insight and takes pride in quality, usability, and clarity

Responsibilities:

BI Delivery

Design, build, test, and maintain dashboards, reports, and self service analytics solutions aligned to business requirements

Deliver high quality BI outputs using shared semantic layers and governed datasets

Work from defined backlogs and requirements, contributing estimates, technical input, and delivery plans

Take ownership of assigned BI deliverables, ensuring they are accurate, performant, and user friendly

Support incremental delivery and continuous improvement of BI products

BI Design & Best Practice

Apply best practice in data visualisation, storytelling, accessibility, and user experience

Ensure dashboards and reports are consistent, intuitive, and aligned to enterprise BI standards

Optimise BI solutions for performance and scalability

Contribute to the development and reuse of standard dashboard patterns, templates, and components

Actively identify and reduce technical debt, usability issues, and performance risks in owned BI assets

Data Quality, Governance & Operations

Validate data accuracy and consistency within dashboards and reports

Ensure BI outputs comply with data governance, security, and access control standards

Maintain clear documentation for dashboards, reports, and semantic models

Support monitoring, incident investigation, and resolution of BI related issues

Contribute to ongoing improvements in BI reliability and trust

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

Work closely with business stakeholders to clarify requirements and validate outputs

Partner with Data Engineering to ensure BI products are built on robust, well modelled, and governed data assets

Collaborate with Data Science & AI teams to support visualisation of advanced analytics outputs where required

Communicate progress, risks, and design decisions clearly to your Area Lead and wider team

Participate constructively in team ceremonies, design reviews, and peer reviews

Learning & Continuous Improvement

Continuously develop BI, data modelling, and visualisation skills

Learn and adopt new BI tools, features, and patterns as agreed within the BI function

Build understanding of the business domain and how insight supports decision making

Share knowledge, best practices, and learnings with the wider BI community

Support junior BI developers where appropriate

Role Objectives & KPIs

Timely, high quality delivery of assigned BI outputs

Accurate, performant, and well adopted dashboards and reports

Improved trust and confidence in BI outputs among business users

Reduced BI defects, rework, and incidents

Positive feedback from stakeholders and peers

Consistent adherence to enterprise BI standards and best practices

Skills and Experience:

Proven experience in a Business Intelligence role

Hands on experience with modern BI tools, particularly Power BI and/or Looker

Solid working knowledge of SQL and analytics data modelling concepts

Experience building dashboards and reports on shared semantic layers or curated datasets

Strong understanding of data visualisation best practices and UX principles

Experience working with governed data and enterprise BI standards

Ability to deliver well scoped BI work independently and to a high standard

Strong attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and quality

We know our colleagues work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits including staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation and personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.

Thank you for your time

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