How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Established in 1981
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
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
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
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
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
Benefits
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 #JD
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills
Location