Senior Business Intelligence Engineer

About Us    

We are Ascent! and we help our customers solve problems, elevate, and do existing things better. We are on a mission to help our customers connect data, software, and purpose to create extraordinary outcomes. You could say we are a digital transformation business.  

We specialize in software product development, analytics, data science, IoT solutions, machine learning, DevOps optimization, and modernization of applications, data, and platforms.  

We work with incredible clients in all types of industries such as smart home devices, space exploration, beer manufacturing, finance, ecology, and logistics. We work with some of the sharpest minds in the brightest businesses and we employ the sharpest minds too!  

At Ascent, we also believe in fostering a vibrant office community where collaboration thrives and connections flourish. With our hybrid approach, we prioritize hiring individuals who reside in close proximity to our offices. Our aim is to cultivate a positive atmosphere and sense of belonging by facilitating easy access to the office.  

About the Role  

As a Senior Business Intelligence Engineer with Ascent, you get to work at the heart of our customer businesses to understand their data needs, identify possible problems and help them develop solutions. You’ll join our practice of market-leading data professionals and work typically as part of a cross-functional team on customer projects, supporting their journey through digital transformation, or helping them do existing things in a much better way.  

As a part of the Data Practice, you will have the opportunity to:  

• Work as part of a multi-skilled delivery team on client engagements
• Work on-site with data professionals and customers to understand their data problems, identify needs and develop solutions  
• Work on data integration solutions using a wide array of technologies and data-sources  
• Work with big data components and migration strategies  
• Work with a range of reporting tools (eg PowerBI, Tableau), analytic tools (R/Python) and software development tools (eg JS)
• Help our clients excel

Responsibilities  

Primary Duties

• Must have strong Analytical Dashboards, Paginated Reports, MS Azure SQL Server and experience in creating, delivering and supporting enterprise scale data warehouse solutions across standard cloud platforms  
• Strong ability to define, track and report key metrics to assess overall business health, delivering in depth analysis on business performance and drivers as well as forecasts and targets  
• Experience of working in Data Analysis Expressions (DAX) in Tabular Models and Power BI  
• Deep understanding of manipulating and analysing complex, high volume data from varying sources using a variety of tools and data analysis techniques  
• Experience of building and designing dashboards via a range of reporting tools, especially in PowerBI  
• Able to provide actionable insights on how to improve business services  
• Presentation skills with high degree of comfort with both large and small audience  

Other

• Keep up to date with relevant technologies and current trends   
• Willingness to travel and work at client sites is essential  
• Ability to fly or drive to client sites, including international travel  
• Applicants must have the right to work in the EU.  

Working at Ascent  

At Ascent we promote a healthy work-life balance by offering flexibility in where you work.  We also promote well-being and provide access to Well Being Coaches.  
 
Your development and learning will be taken seriously, and we'll support your professional development with training and certification, with regular feedback and review. It is a fun, supportive and modern workplace where we really live by our company values of Empathy, Energy and Audacity! Ascent also offers a variety of benefits in each of our countries. 
Ascent is an equal opportunities employer. We take intentional steps to ensure inclusion and belonging are something real here, not just something we talk about. No person will be treated less favourably because of their gender, pregnancy, and maternity status, marital or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnic origin, age, religion or belief, or disability status. If you require any reasonable accommodation, please let us know when you apply.