Business Intelligence Developer
Hello. We’re Severn Trent and we think water is wonderful. And we’re pretty keen on people too
24 hours a day, 365 days a year we serve 4.8 million households and business across the heart of the UK. Each cuppa drank, each toilet flushed is only possible because of the 7,000 brilliant team members working across our patch.
We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality. We know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our customers and the communities where they live.
If you want to do more because you care, we’d love to talk to you. There really is something for everyone here.
Here at Severn Trent, we take pride in knowing we come to work each day and help make a difference to our customers, working together with our colleagues to solve problems as soon as we can.
This role is integral to our operations, offering a unique opportunity to enhance customer satisfaction through impactful data insights.
Are you technically minded with an eagerness to learn and develop knowledge and experience across Microsoft Power BI reporting tools?
Well, if you are, read on.
EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW
Due to growth within both Severn Trent and our BI team we have multiple Business Intelligence Developer positions we are looking to recruit; two fixed-term contracts and two permanent positions
As the Business Intelligence Developer, you will own the full end to end report development process. You will be working with relevant Reporting Partners and Business Requesters, taking their requirements and generating a detailed specification, which will enable you to progress the report builds.
Your role will be to provide reporting solutions to business users such as operations and finance teams. You will be aligned to a specific business area and be able to build close working relations with them to understand their reporting requirements. You will support them with their reports currently available to them and further develop easy to use, intuitive, self-serve reports.
The reports which you produce are there to build best practice and guide our internal stakeholders to ensure the right data and reporting is provided in time to give an effective and efficient service.
You will design, build, and test any self-serve outputs to ensure your reports work and that all timescales & delivery plans are agreed within the team. This will ensure that you are all working together. We’ll also be looking for you to create technical specifications and undertake functional unit testing through the life of the development of the reports to make sure they are accurate and fit for purpose.
We’ll look for you to understand report requirements and designs, to be able to build and test to the required standards to meet business needs. To be able to use your expert knowledge to ensure the solutions are built to last with intuitive user interfaces. You’ll also be expected to investigate and fix any incidents which happen on any self-serve reports.
WHAT YOU’LL BRING TO THE ROLE
The right skills and experience are important. But if you have the right character, positivity, and a caring attitude we want to talk to you, too.
We will look for you to be technically minded and to have some knowledge and experience in coding language such as SQL and DAX. It is essential you have experience in building reports in Power BI. It would also be great if you are a good communicator with strong planning and organisation skills.
We welcome people from all walks of life and celebrate individuality as we know diverse minds, experiences and backgrounds help us to learn and better serve our communities. We want people who show up and get involve. Those who are ready to be part of something bigger and who want to make a difference because they care. Is that you?
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU
Working here isn’t just a job. You can build a career at Severn Trent. We’ll reward you for it, too. We have a range of benefits that recognise great work, and award-winning training to help you reach your potential. And we’ll also help you play your part in looking after the environment and the communities where we live.
With that in mind, here are just some of our favourite's perks that you’ll get being part of the Severn Trent family:
- 28 days holiday + bank holidays (and the ability to buy/ sell up to 5 days per year)
- Annual bonus scheme (of up to £2,225, which is subject to eligibility)
- Leading pension scheme – we will double your contribution (up to 15% when you contribute 7.5%)
- Sharesave – the chance to buy Severn Trent Plc shares at a discounted rate
- 10% monthly discount with Busy Bee Nurserys, and one-week free childcare
- Dedicated training and development with our Academy
- Electric vehicle scheme and retail offers
- Family friendly policies
- Two paid volunteering days per year
WHATS NEXT?
Interview dates: 9th, 10th and 11th of July 2025
We can’t wait to hear from you.
Before you apply, you’ll need an updated copy of your CV and about five minutes to spare. If you’re not too sure about what you need to do, or have a question about the role before applying, please do reach out to our amazing team of recruiters at recruitment@severntrent.co.uk.
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