Maximus UK
Lead BI Engineer
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Job Title
We are looking for someone who has strong Power BI experience and has experience of building and designing data models, not just working with them. This role is only open to UK based candidates.
About the Company
Maximus is a global organisation that specialises in providing health and employment services to millions of people every year. Here in the UK, we employ around 5,000 people across the country to deliver services that have a profound impact on people’s lives. From assessments and health services to employability programmes and specialist support, we do work that matters with people who care.
Role Summary
The Lead BI Engineer is responsible for providing technical expertise in the design, development, and governance of business intelligence and analytical products that deliver trusted, actionable insight at scale. The role exists to deliver BI products in line with agreed BI strategy and architectural standards, supporting effective decision making.
The Lead BI Engineer partners closely with stakeholders and delivery teams to shape requirements, define metrics and models, and guide the creation of high quality BI products that improve service experience and contractual performance.
Salary
£45,000 - £58,625 depending on experience
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
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Technical Ownership of BI Solutions Leads technical design and implementation within agreed architecture and design standards.
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Design Authority & Best Practice Contributes to the design authority for data modelling, visualisation, and BI patterns, contributing to standards and ensuring consistent, high‑quality approaches across the team.
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Stakeholder & Product Leadership Works closely with product, performance, and business stakeholders to shape requirements, supports KPI definition and success criteria, and ensure BI products deliver meaningful outcomes.
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Delivery Leadership & Risk Management Supports reliable delivery by identifying technical risks, dependencies, and constraints early, and guiding teams to pragmatic, timely solutions.
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Data Quality, Trust & Governance Applies agreed validation and quality approaches and escalates data trust or security concerns through established governance routes.
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Coaching & Capability Development Supports BI Engineers and Junior Engineers, sharing expertise, reviewing work, and raising technical capability within the BI engineering team.
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Qualifications and/or Experience
Essential
- A degree level qualification (or equivalent practical experience) in Data Analytics, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related discipline.
- Significant experience working in data or analytics roles within a complex organisation, delivering BI solutions across multiple business areas or workstreams.
- Proven, in‑depth experience designing and delivering enterprise‑scale business intelligence solutions, ideally using Power BI.
- Advanced analytical capability with strong experience in data visualisation, storytelling, and UX design for insight delivery.
- Demonstrated experience producing executive‑level insight, including shaping narrative, defining KPIs, and supporting strategic decision‑making.
- Advanced proficiency in analytics and visualisation tools (e.g. Power BI, advanced Excel; Tableau optional).
- Extensive practical experience designing dimensional data models, applying Kimball methodologies, and creating reusable semantic layers.
- Strong SQL expertise, including writing and reviewing complex queries for data extraction, validation, and transformation.
- Proven experience ensuring data quality, trust, and governance, including validation approaches, testing strategies, and peer review.
- Experience acting as technical lead or design authority, reviewing others’ work and setting best‑practice patterns for BI delivery.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills, with experience shaping requirements, challenging assumptions, and translating business needs into scalable BI products.
- Experience supporting reliable delivery within an Agile‑oriented or hybrid delivery environment, including managing technical risks and dependencies.
- Experience coaching, mentoring, or guiding BI Engineers and Junior BI Engineers, or equivalent roles, to raise overall team capability.
- Experience working closely with BI Managers, senior stakeholders, or Delivery Leads to shape roadmaps, priorities, and delivery approaches.
- Experience monitoring BI usage and performance metrics and driving product iteration based on adoption and feedback.
- Experience with Power BI Service administration and governance, including workspace strategies, dataset endorsement, access models, and deployment pipelines.
- Experience designing or contributing to BI standards, including modelling conventions, visualisation frameworks, or delivery patterns.
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Desirable
- Advanced experience writing and optimising complex SQL (CTEs, window functions, performance tuning).
- Experience with automation or orchestration tools (e.g. Power Automate) to support BI delivery, quality, or operational efficiency.
- Exposure to modern cloud data platforms (e.g. Azure data services, Databricks, Synapse, Fabric) and their use in analytics architectures.
- Exposure to designing data models that are optimised for Generative AI consumption to support natural language querying and prompt driven insight generation.
EEO Statement
Maximus is committed to developing, maintaining and supporting a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the recruitment process. We know that feeling included has a dramatic impact on personal well-being and are working to ensure that no job applicant receives less favourable treatment due to any personal characteristic. Advertisements for posts will include sufficiently clear and accurate information to enable potential applicants to assess their own suitability for the post.
We are a Disability Confident Leader, thanks to our commitment to the recruitment, retention and career development of people with disabilities and long-term conditions. The Disability Confident scheme includes a guaranteed interview for any applicant with a disability who meets the minimum requirements for a job. When you complete your job application you will find a question asking you if you would like to apply under the Disability Confident Guaranteed Interview Scheme. If you feel that you have a disability and apply under this scheme, providing that you meet the essential criteria for the job, you will then be invited for an interview. Your Guaranteed Interview application will only be shared with the hiring manager and the local resourcing team. Where reasonable, Maximus will review and consider adjustments for those applicants who express a requirement for them during the recruitment process.
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