Business Intelligence Technical Lead (H/F/NB)

We are seeking an experienced and driven Business Intelligence Technical Lead to join our global BI organisation. This role combines hands-on technical leadership, solution design and report building, with a strong focus on platform modernization and intelligent analytics.

You will act as the architect for the BI team, leading the design, evolution, and optimisation of our Platform and associated analytics solutions, primarily supporting Finance and corporate decision-makers, in collaboration with the BI Global Director.

You will ensure that our BI solutions are scalable, reliable, secure, and aligned with business strategy, while actively contributing to delivery.

This includes leading the transition toward modern cloud architectures, strengthening engineering practices, and gradually embedding AI- and ML-driven insights into the BI ecosystem.

Full role description

Role Overview

As BI Technical Lead, you will be responsible for:

• Enforcing and improving BI technical standards and best practices

• Leading the modernisation of the data platform (cloud migration, architectural redesign, tooling evolution)

• Participating in the high-quality delivery of reports and analytics

• Acting as a key bridge between developers and Global Infrastructure, DBAs and Security teams

• Owning the technical health, delivery capability, and long‑term evolution of the BI platform – while remaining hands-on and providing technical direction, coaching, and code reviews.

What will I be doing?

Technical leadership & architecture

• Act as the technical lead and reference point for BI development

• Lead the BI technical roadmap in alignment with business priorities and the BI Global Director

• Design end-to-end BI solutions covering data ingestion, storage, transformation, semantic layers, and reporting

• Enforce data governance, documentation, and development standards

• Ensure consistency, scalability, and security across BI environments

• Foster a culture of high-quality documentation and shared code ownership

Data engineering & BI delivery

• Oversee and contribute to data modelling, SQL query development and optimisation, views, stored procedures, and pipelines

• Maintain data validation, reconciliation, and audit controls

• Support complex financial initiatives such as data migrations (including M&A contexts), integration of new source systems, and budget/scenario simulations

• Provide hands-on support for critical production issues and performance bottlenecks

Data platform modernisation project & AI

• Rationalise technical debt and optimise platform performance and cost

• Take ownership of existing ML pipelines supporting statistical projections

• Bring AI and Machine Learning capabilities in-house within the BI function

• Technically lead a Data Platform Modernisation initiative, including potential migration of on-premise SQL-based data warehouses to the cloud and redesign of legacy ETL pipelines into modern, scalable data integration patterns