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
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
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
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
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