Knight Frank is the leading independent property consultancy in the UK offering agency and professional advice across Commercial, Residential and Rural sectors. Established in 1897, Knight Frank now comprises a global network of over 400 offices.

The Data Office within Knight Frank has been growing rapidly over the last year and an opportunity has arisen for a Head of BI to come in and lead the BI Team and advance our automation and reporting capabilities across a multi-functional organisation.

Working as part of the Data Leadership team you will set the vision for expanding our MS Azure environment and identify priorities and set the road map for supporting the business with its data and reporting needs.

The right candidate will need to be a self-starter, highly motivated, have natural leadership qualities and gravitas and be prepared to interface with all departments to gather the support required. The environment is extremely varied and fast paced so youll need to be comfortable juggling multiple priorities.

Responsibilities :

Technical Lead :

- Provide technical leadership to the Mumbai Business Intelligence & Data Engineering teams, ensuring delivery of objectives and development of team members.

- Ensure the team is operating in the most effective way possible and have the appropriate level of skills and capabilities to be successful.

- Identify training & skills gaps, areas with no secondary support, growing and improving the Azure data platforms strategic architecture or adopting new tools and work with the Head of Business Intelligence to ensure that appropriate investment levels are fed into the future budget.

- Work with the other Data Leaders to advise on all aspects of data, data architecture, security management and provide support to meet the Data Offices joined up goals.

- Work with the wider IT teams to ensure provision of BI & Data Engineering services are being managed and resources are being correctly applied.

Technical Operations :

Provide leadership on overall Microsoft Azure Technical architecture to support the business and data strategy.

Be proficient in all aspects of BI, Data Engineering, Analytics technologies and architectures, including :

- BI and Data Engineering architecture for the modern Azure Data platform.

- BI and Data Engineering delivery mechanisms, internal & external dashboards, and mobile BI.

- BI tools including Power BI Premium.

- Data Warehousing, Dimensional and Tabular data modelling principles (star and snowflake schemas, de normalised data structures, slowly changing dimensions, etc.).

- ETL/ ELT techniques and Data integration tools such as SSIS, Azure Data Factory, Azure Synapse and Alteryx workflows.

- Advise the BI & Data Engineering teams and ensure processes are in place to comply within the boundaries of the BSI ISO 27001 Audits.

Agile Project Delivery :

- Ensure all areas of the team have adopted the teams preferred Agile way of working.

- Ensure the tools meet the ongoing needs of the teams Agile framework.

- Ensure project best practise is being applied and adhered too.

- Ensure the teams are using Azure DevOps implicitly in all project delivery.

- Oversee planning and execution of multiple strategic project initiatives.

- Work with the teams to continuously improve the development process through regular reviews and retrospectives.

- Prioritise the business, technical and strategic objectives and set clear goals across all areas within the teams.

Essential skills and knowledge to be considered for the role :

- Bachelor's Degree in a STEM or related field.

- 5 years' or more experience in a technical lead role.

- Demonstrable knowledge of agile, DevOps/ DataOps methods of working.

- Essential development technical knowledge and experience in: Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2, Azure Data Factory, Azure Delta Lake, Azure Synapse, Azure SQL, Power BI premium.

- Strong Business Intelligence development knowledge and experience in : Sourcing data & preparation, Data modelling, Traditional / modern data warehousing, SQL development, Power BI development and Data visualisation.

- Strong Data Engineering development knowledge and experience in : ETL/ ELT, Data pipeline line development, Connecting to multiple source both internal and external.

- Strong understanding of Data governance and data quality management principals.

- Strong project management skills.

- Ability to lead and develop the BI and Data Engineering team capability.

- Comfortable working in a fast changing, dynamic environment.

- Strong communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.

- Strong delivery capability able to get things done and perform under pressure.

- Strong commercial knowledge and real estate knowledge is desirable.

Note : Experience in all the aforementioned technologies should be based on recent involvement in the current project, and not limited to just a few months in the past.