Team Leader-Business Intelligence

Life on the team

Computacenter GIS business unit is seeking a confident and experienced Datawarehouse professionals, to bring maturity to their existing approach.  The ideal candidate will have broad experience in Datawarehouse technologies and can create a plan to deliver improvements then execute against the plan.

Good communication skills and relationship building will enable the candidate to excel at the role, build a culture of strong team and advance their career within Computacenter.

What you’ll do

• Manage, develop and coach team of line or functional managers and implements performance management solutions where required.
• Develop, motivate and coach team to ensure the delivery of function and business targets.
• Set objectives on a team in individual level to support delivery of functional area.
• Manage the overall staff skills mix against function’s requirements, ensure skill coverage is sufficient at all times.
• Support and manage assignment of team resources to operational, support and project.
• Contribute to business strategy (within own department) and prioritise projects and objectives accordingly in line with agile team mythologies.
• Understand overall departmental goals and priorities; ensure project plans and services are aligned. Identify new opportunities within the business and develop service offerings of the functional area.
• Managing overall customer expectations and ensuring key commitments, esp. service levels and project scopes, are met.
• Act as a point of contact for escalation.
• Own complex operational issues and provide appropriate support to other functions/managers.
• Ensure that the key requirements for significant initiatives are clearly articulated.
• Take accountability for the delivery of significant projects/deliverables to defined targets.
• Ensure solutions are delivered that are consistent with the IS best practice and architecture.
• Establish engagement models and processes to prioritise and control initiation of work and progress.
• Sponsor and approve internal projects e.g. process improvement and methods.
• Establish productive relationships and networks at senior management level to build and maintain customer relationships.
• Ensure the functional area works in accordance with Computacenter Information Security Policies and implement a management system to make sure security controls are effective.
• You will guide your team on technical questions and advise on best practise.

What you’ll need

• Proven track record of experience of working in an international, commercially challenging environment.
• Experience of functional area’s lifecycles, methodologies, tools and techniques.
• Experience of developing best practice policies and procedures for functional area.
• Dealing with and influencing multi-tier management
• People Management and motivation skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Experience to manage line and virtual teams.
• Coaching and people development experience and skills.
• Change management skills.
• Risk analysis techniques.
• Technically oriented training and/or a corresponding degree, e.g. in (business) informatics with experience of 10+ years in BI Domain.
• You enjoy playing a decisive role in shaping the future of your team as well as the group-wide reporting platform.
• You assist as a technical mentor and will help to achieve professional goals of your team members.
• You are familiar with communication methods in business, approaches to writing technical design documents and presentation skills.  
• More than anything you will have a passion for data and the potential it holds, a keen eye for detail and a drive to immerse yourself in and learn from an accomplished company that invests in future talent.
• Skills needed Microsoft SQL Server Stack –Integration-SSIS and  T-SQL programming, ETL knowledge, SSDT / Git / Visual Studio experience, SSAS (Tabular), DAX, Power BI knowledge.
• Very good English skills, strong communication skills on all levels and ideally experience in working with international teams.

About us

With over 20,000 employees across the globe, we work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology, and helping our customers to source, transform and manage their technology infrastructure in over 70 countries. We deliver digital technology to some of the world’s greatest organisations, driving digital transformation, and enabling people and their businesses.

Learning and development

Our people are our strength which is why we offer leadership training, coaching, mentoring, professional development, and international opportunities. Whichever direction you choose to go in – whether it’s a well-trodden path or a completely new part of the business – we’ll support you. Our managers champion their people, powering their personal development and helping them to reach their full potential. 

You belong

We passionately believe in the power of diversity and inclusion. We celebrate our differences because we know a diverse workforce with different experiences and perspectives helps us win together. And to do that, you need to feel comfortable to bring your whole self to work – and you can only do that when you feel supported, valued, and have a sense of belonging which is what we strive to achieve.

Your application is considered on its merits regardless of your age, disability, ethnicity, faith, gender identity or sexual orientation. All that matters to us is that you share our vision and our values, and that you bring the experience and skills we need.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, we welcome applications from people with a disability – and guarantee to interview applicants who have a disability and meet the essential requirements for the job.