Salary: £42,500 to £47,500 (dependent on experience)
Contract Type: Temporary: Fixed Term Contract or Secondment
Hours: Full Time
Location: Poole, Dorset, England
Location Description: Hybrid between home and Poole – with occasional travel to Poole as required by the role
Closing Date: 03-06-2026
Reference: 21597
About Us
Our purpose is simple - to save lives at sea. We provide a 24-hour lifeboat search and rescue service, seasonal lifeguards, and water safety education and initiatives. Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards need a dedicated, professional and talented team behind them, and that is where you come in. This is your chance to join that team and help save lives every day.
We’re seeking a Business Intelligence Developer to join our Data Product Development team for a fixed-term period of up to 12 months. In this role, you will focus on maintaining, enhancing, and supporting an evolving suite of reporting and analytics solutions. You will play a key role in ensuring the reliability and usability of existing data products while contributing incremental improvements aligned to our digital transformation agenda.
The Data Product Development team is central to the RNLI’s ambition to build a strong data-driven culture, where high-quality, accessible insights underpin effective decision-making across the organisation.
Some of the Benefits
- Salary of £42,500 to £47,500 (dependent on experience)
- Flexible working
- 26 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
- Outstanding pension scheme
- Life assurance
- Health and dental cashplan
Your Role
As a Business Intelligence Developer, you will be tasked with the following:
- Supporting and maintaining our existing estate of reporting products.
- Engaging with business SMEs to understand their reporting needs, eliciting requirements and defining the scope and phasing of product delivery.
- Collaborating with other Data teams to ensure we have the clean, complete and modelled data we need for great reporting.
- Interpreting users’ needs and developing high-quality BI solutions with great UI for a wide range of business areas.
- Selling the new world of reporting solutions to customers and ensuring they are trained to get the most from our data and technological capabilities.
About You
To be considered as the Business Intelligence Developer, you will need:
- To be a self-starter, curious and independent team player, able to effectively prioritise activities & requests.
- To have strong demonstrable people engagement skills and experience working closely with business representatives to understand and deliver their requirements.
- A high degree of data literacy to ensure data is captured and modelled in the best way to produce the analysis and reporting the organisation requires.
- Technical expertise regarding visualisation, storytelling, and data modelling.
- Technical understanding of modelling and designing efficient dimensional data models for reporting.
- Strong UI and UX competencies and enthusiastic about best practice data visualisation.
- Strong knowledge and experience working with the Microsoft BI stack, including Power BI, Paginated Reports and Databricks.
- Experienced in the use of source control and task management tools.
- An understanding of the Software Development Life Cycle.
- An appreciation of Continuous Improvement methodologies and principles.
- An interest in improving how the organisation views and interacts with its data to make informed decisions
- Appreciation of ‘doing the right thing’.
If you have a strong interest in data modelling and data presentation and want to help us develop a vibrant data culture to support our organisation’s aim to reduce drowning, this could be the role for you. Please apply via the button shown.
Safeguarding
The RNLI is committed to safeguarding; protecting a person’s health, wellbeing, and human rights, enabling them to live free from harm, abuse, and neglect. We expect all employees and volunteers to share this commitment and have a zero-tolerance approach. The suitability of all prospective employees and volunteers will be assessed during the recruitment process in line with this commitment. This will include relevant criminal record checks being carried out, dependent on the eligibility of the role. (England & Wales; DBS check, Scotland; Disclosure Scotland PVG, Northern Ireland; Access NI, Republic of Ireland; Garda Vetting; International, International Child Protection Certificate process).
Diversity at the RNLI
Our staff and volunteers have been saving lives at sea without prejudice for 200 years. We respect and value diversity of background, skills and perspectives within our teams, and consider it essential to help us deliver a world-class lifesaving service. We are an inclusive organisation and welcome applications from everyone. In addition to having the skills needed for the role, we also look for applicants who share our commitment to living our RNLI values (trustworthy, courageous, selfless, and dependable), and helping us work towards Our Vision: To save Every One
Salary description
£42500.00 - £47500.00 per year