We’re looking for a Senior Business Intelligence Platform Administrator to manage and maintain their business intelligence platforms and the operational processes that execute on those platforms who’ll be responsible for managing and maintaining the SAS, Power BI and ThoughtSpot environments within the organisation, ensuring that platforms and content on those platforms is available to the business in line with agreed SLAs.

The client is an award-winning insurance and technology organisation, delivering market-leading motor insurance, underwriting, distribution, finance, technology and legal services.

As the Senior Business Intelligence Platform Administrator, you’ll be the technical expert in SAS platform administration. You’ll mentor your colleagues in best practices and will take charge of ensuring our platforms are safe, secure, and performing at their best.

 Core skills to succeed in the role: 

• SAS Platform Management: It is essential that you possess in-depth expertise in SAS Platform Management and have experience tuning, automating and troubleshooting.
• SAS and Power BI Technical skills: You’ll showcase your proven experience of using Power BI and ThoughtSpot (PowerBI Not Essential)
• Coaching and Mentoring: You’ll be passionate about coaching others in best practices and ensuring platforms are safe and secure.

What’s involved:

• Responsible for all aspects of BI platform administration, including the definition of structures and processes for security, content, capacity, release and performance management on the environments.
• Responsible for designing and executing controls on the BI Platforms to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and reliability of timely and accurate information in reports for management decision-making purposes.
• Timely resolution of issues, communicating effectively with all recipients of the service, and engaging in root cause analysis and incident management.
• Proactively monitor the health and performance of BI Platforms by overseeing monitoring mechanisms and be relentless in improving system performance by tuning the environments for optimal performance and platform stability.
• Communicate with stakeholders to understand and meet their BI-related needs and collaborate with other IT teams to integrate BI tools with other systems and platforms.

Experience & knowledge

• Extensive hands-on platform administration experience of large-scale business wide SAS and/or Power BI platforms (00’s of users), in on premise and cloud environments
• Experience of tuning, optimising and automating BI and Reporting processes.
• Experience coaching and mentoring colleagues.
• Problem solving and Incident Management – Experience troubleshooting and fixing issues in existing reports, conducting the root cause analysis and implementing preventative measures to avoid future instances.
• Stakeholder management – Experience managing stakeholders of various levels, proactively keeping them updated on multiple requests with a fast-moving set of changing priorities.

Skills

• Excellent PowerBI and SAS skills (SQL & ThoughtSpot advantageous).
• Able to follow, deliver changes to improve, standards and designs, ensuring their own work, and work of others, is of high quality.
• Able to operate with minimal brief, and a fast-moving set of changing priorities.
• Ability to bring together multiple different views and perspectives to create agreed designs and solutions.

If the above sounds like it could be interest, please reach out to thigginson@tcm-partners.co.uk with your CV to find out more! 

Our client, a leading global insurer, are passionate about Agile and passionate about Data. Agile is transforming the way they work, and Data is transforming how they do it. With colleagues, customers, patients and residents in mind you’ll have the opportunity to work on innovative projects and make a real impact on people’s lives.

In this role you will lead the Group’s Project Management (PM) Practice. Setting PM standards and frameworks, incorporating Agile principles, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring alignment with best practice and the Groups Change Delivery Framework.

You will also assume line management responsibility for direct reports comprised of Senior Project Manager and Project Manager colleagues, including the provision of effective developmental and performance management enhancing individual value-add and that of the broader capability.

Job responsibilities:

• Be an effective leader, provide strong developmental support and effective performance management across the PM function, ensuring the practice is optimized for delivery in a fast-paced, agile change environment aligned to SAFe best practice and principles, and the First Central Change Delivery Framework (CDF)
• Lead on setting the standard policies and practices for the PM Team, which align and reinforce Business Agility
• Define the competencies which underpin PM practices and apply situational leadership for each PM. 
• Coordinate project delivery activity on strategically important programmes of work, setting the delivery approach, defining scope, shaping, and allocating work packages as well as assuring the quality of PM delivery activities and deliverables.
• Work proactively with business areas to manage and execute effective resource planning, ensuring PM effort is aligned to stated priorities across the portfolio.
• Ensure compliance with Company Policies, Values and guidelines and other relevant standards/ regulations always.

Experience & knowledge

• Experience of managing and developing a team of PM’s and change professionals, including developmental and performance management practices and techniques
• Extensive experience of change delivery within an agile delivery environment, including CI, Lean practices, and the application of agile project management tools and techniques
• Demonstrable experience of managing and influencing senior stakeholders around high-profile projects and programmes
• Demonstrable experience of delivering multiple, concurrent change initiatives within a large, complex, fast-paced environment.
• Ability to explain approaches, concepts, and activities to non-technical audiences.
• Knowledge and experience of managing a Strategic Portfolio of change

Skills & Qualifications

• Highly developed leadership and people management skills
• Highly developed communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong workshop and meeting facilitation skills
• Formal Project Management qualification such as APMP, PRINCE2, Agile Project Management or equivalent

If the above sounds like it could be of interest, please send a copy of your CV to thigginson@tcm-partners.co.uk to find out more!

Our client is an award-winning insurance and technology organisation, delivering market-leading motor insurance, underwriting, distribution, finance, technology and legal services.

They're on a journey to deliver real value to customers with the shortest end to end cycle time, in a way that fully engages all colleagues. They are adopting a lean agile mind-set to help them on the way.

With this is mind, an exciting opportunity has arisen for a talented Senior Agile Delivery Lead to join the Transformation team on a remote first basis, with occasional travel to either Manchester or West Sussex.

What’s involved:

• Take primary responsibility for the timely delivery of features and product backlog items, driving the product team to achieve committed outcomes and being accountable for the team’s performance.
• Ensure robust, effective delivery plans are in place by executing a continuous approach to planning, forecasting, estimating, managing uncertainty and contingency planning.
• Optimise the flow of work through your own product teams and as part of the overall change delivery process, by clearing blockers, impediments, and resolving any conflict situations.
• Lead the implementation and operation of Agile practices into your product team(s), including facilitating all events (Planning, Daily Scrum, Review, Retro), and support ‘Scaled Agility’ events such; Program Backlog Refinement, PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, PO Sync, Inspect and Adapt.
• Coach the team and the organisation to work more effectively within an Agile framework and drive increased collaboration across Technology and Data.

Experience & knowledge:

• Extensive experience with Agile techniques such as User Story Mapping, Splitting User stories, Backlog maintenance, Continuous Integration, Pair Programming, TDD, Automated Testing etc.
• Extensive experience in leading teams with different Agile frameworks, such as Scrum, Kanban & XP..
• Experience with Scaled Agile and the associated frameworks such as SAFe and LeSS.
• Experience working with Feature and Component based teams within the SDLC.
• Experience in Coaching, Mentoring and Teaching others in the practical application of Agile practices and frameworks.

Skills and qualifications:

• Advanced Certification in Scrum – A-CSM / PSM2 or similar. 
• Outstanding communication skills both verbal and written.
• Excellent skills and knowledge of situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual. improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.

If the above sounds like it could be of interest, please send a copy of your CV to thigginson@tcm-partners.co.uk to find out more!