About the Role:

We are looking for a Data Business Analyst to turn data into clear, actionable insight that drives commercial and operational decisions. Sitting between our business stakeholders and our data platform team, you will gather requirements, model and analyse data, and deliver reporting and analytics that stakeholders trust and act on. You will work hands-on within our Microsoft Fabric environment to build and maintain robust, scalable analytics solutions, and play a key role in migrating our analytics estate from Azure Synapse and SQL Server 2019 onto Fabric. This is a mid-level role suited to someone with solid delivery experience who is ready to take ownership of their work.

Role & responsibilities

- Partner with business stakeholders to capture, challenge and document data and reporting requirements, translating them into clear analytical specifications.
- Build, maintain and optimise data models, reports and dashboards within Microsoft Fabric (Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Power BI, Dataflows and Pipelines).
- Write and optimise SQL to extract, transform and validate data from multiple source systems.
- Deliver self-serve reporting and analysis that gives commercial, operational and finance teams a single, trusted view of performance.
- Analyse trends, identify opportunities and root-cause issues, and present findings and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Define and document data definitions, KPIs and business logic, and support data quality and governance standards.
- Build, manage and maintain the data catalogue documenting data assets,



definitions, lineage and ownership to improve data discoverability and trust across the business.
- Work with data engineers and the wider data team to improve the analytics platform, data pipelines and ways of working.

Essential Skills & Experience

- Proven experience as a Data / Business Analyst delivering reporting and analytics in a commercial environment.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric e.g. Lakehouse, Data Warehouse, Power BI, Dataflows Gen2 and Pipelines.
- Experience migrating data and analytics workloads from Azure Synapse and SQL Server 2019 to a modern platform such as Microsoft Fabric.
- Strong SQL skills, with the ability to write efficient queries against large datasets.
- Robust Power BI skills, including data modelling and DAX, to build clear and performant dashboards.
- Excellent requirements-gathering and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to translate business questions into analytical solutions.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and high attention to detail.
- Confident communicator, able to explain data and insight clearly to non-technical audiences.

Desirable (Nice to Have)

- Experience in grocery, food retail or FMCG, and an understanding of the data that drives them (e.g. sales, ranging, stock, supply chain, promotions and loyalty).
- Familiarity with the wider Microsoft data stack (Azure, Power Platform).
- Experience with Python for data analysis or automation.
- Understanding of data governance, data quality and modelling best practices.

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