Job Ref: 215583013

Date: 2022-01-17 14:56:40

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The Vacancy

About the role

Paradigm has already made great strides forward in how well it uses data in the past three years: in the next two years we will deliver the biggest digital transformation programme in our history with data at its heart.

We have an existing heavily-used SQL Server data warehouse but we have the opportunity to create a new, improved one from the new systems we’re setting up as part of the digital transformation. This is an excellent chance for the new Data Warehouse Lead, to bring in their best practice ideas.  

We have a pragmatic, business-delivery-focused approach within Business Intelligence – what matters to us is enabling the Exec and Paradigm’s business services to have the actionable insight they need – which may be different to what they ask for.

This role reports to the Head of Business Intelligence. You’ll need to design our new data warehouse – security, schemas, modelling, logging, documentation, semantic layer etc – so it’s fit for Paradigm’s ambitions.

Your role will also involve reading in the data from our new systems and understanding it well enough to build a user-friendly semantic layer for our experts in data visualisation. You’ll also need to help the Business with their data quality via automated dashboards – perhaps reading in and checking against external data sources or reconciling between systems.

About you

We are looking for someone with the ability to enable the generation of actionable insights from Paradigm’s data, someone who has a passion for excellent service with solid, serious experience in data warehousing to join our small friendly team.

Working via a mixture of office and homeworking, you will be helping drive the future of Paradigm by enabling better decision making and more efficient delivery of our essential services.

Experience of data warehousing within a Housing environment is desirable but not essential – your proactive, pragmatic approach to data warehousing is much more important.  

As well as deep data warehousing skills – both hands-on technical and design – our ideal candidate has a deep understanding of analysis and reporting and their relationship to business processes plus strong and clear communication skills. 

We have a SQL Server data warehouse and Power BI for data visualisation plus we’ll be adding in Civica CX BI Reporting as part of the transformation programme. Knowledge of these would be useful, but what is much more important is a deep understanding of data and how to drive business change with it – success is not enabling a finished dashboard but Paradigm using it to drive change. 

We have a comprehensive personal and professional development suite available to all of our employees. So not only is this a great opportunity to join a high performing and specialist team at a time when you can have a real and personal impact on the future success of our business, you can continue to grow and develop yourself, building an exciting/interesting/rewarding career with a growing business.

About us

We are a Best Companies 1 STAR accredited organisation in recognition of our high employee engagement and offer a welcoming and friendly environment. We are clearly focussed on the delivery of our five-year corporate plan with ambitious and challenging objectives including improving our environment and sustainability targets to deliver quality homes to people who need them.

We’re proud to offer great benefits and have a committed approach to employee wellbeing. We offer an attractive range of benefits such as Health Cash Plan, Bonus potential, a competitive Pension and 25-30 days holiday (dependent on role) on starting in addition to 3 days closure at Christmas, up to 3 paid Volunteer days p/a, free parking at our modern office with newly created collaborative workspaces.

We support flexible ways of working and welcome applications from all sections of the communities we work in.

Further information

For the full job description and person specification for the role please see the attachment at the bottom of this page. Should you have any queries about this vacancy please email (url removed) and we will respond as soon as possible.

As part of our application process, we ask for a covering statement and CV so we can assess your application against our essential and desired criteria as set out in the job description and person specification. Please include in your covering statement how you meet the criteria so we can see how well you match our requirements and give your application the consideration it deserves.

Thank you for your interest in Paradigm Housing Group thus far.

Shortlisting will be conducted in line with the essential and desirable criteria set out in the person specification. We reserve the right to close this role earlier than the published date should a suitable candidate be identified.

The Company

We are Paradigm Housing Group. 

We manage more than 15,000 homes across the South East.

We know that house prices in the areas where we work are high, both to buy and rent. We want to help more people have a safe and sustainable home that they can afford.

As a charity, the money we make goes into building new homes and providing an excellent service for residents

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