Business Intelligence Developer
Business Intelligence Developer (BI Developer)
Most commonly abbreviated to ‘BI Developer’, a Business Intelligence Developer essentially makes data understandable for businesses, leveraging software tools to transform data into critical insights that support business decisions.
A Business Intelligence Developer is a fast-growing role, as companies increasingly rely upon technology to determine their engagement – they will need a specialist individual who understands BI. Business Intelligence developers are more technologically involved than others in the business analysis / strategy / technical solution field, as they are data experts.
Usually, a Business Intelligence Developer will spend a notable portion of their time researching and planning solutions to resolve existing problems within a business, working with relational and multidimensional databases.
BI Developers must be able to understand data at both a granular and ‘bigger picture’ level. A BI Developer will work with different types of data, such as a spreadsheet, CSV or XML, and may be required to code, test or debug, or even design and implement newly developed tools.
As a standalone concept, Business Intelligence relates to technologies, applications and practices for the collection, integration analysis and presentation of business information. The fundamental purpose of Business Intelligence is to provide tools for improved business decision making.
Business Intelligence Developers are normally employed by large corporations and IT companies, requiring some technical background (specifically handling data) in conjunction with experience across other business areas, so they can have a concrete bearing on business problems and strategic decision making.
Basic skills for a BI Developer include:
· SQL and relational databases, Data Warehousing
· SSRS / SSAS / SSIS / ETL (Extract Transform Load) Report Builder
· Power BI, DAX (and security rules)
· Some coding skills like C#, JavaScript etc.
A successful Business Intelligence Developer will blend business and tech skills, as you may have room in the role to focus on the business side, organising data with different parties and relaying them to different stakeholders, or you could focus on the technical / development side such as Power BI, data warehouse and other data-related tasks. This is why BI is a popular choice for people looking to make a career change towards IT or software, because having business operation experience is highly beneficial.
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